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Let's dispel the myth that 'everyone else's baby is sleeping through the night'- ha ha!

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Floppytulips · 20/02/2008 09:18

Mine was up at 11, 1.30, 3.30 and 5.30 last night- a good night for her (3 1/2 months).

Also, silly things you do when you are knackered: me, stopping the buggy in the middle of the street for 5 minutes cos I couldn't figure out how to put my gloves on......

How about yours?

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dosydot · 20/02/2008 10:14

DD 3 up at 12.30 and 2.30
DS nearly 2 up at 3 and 5.50( that was wakeup for the day)

Very average night for us. No wonder I'm tired was up each time for about 10 mins but it mounts up after 3 years

Nbg · 20/02/2008 10:14

Now my 11 week old sleeps through.
My 18 month old sleeps through.

My 4 year olds sleep patterns leave alot to be desired.

Piffle · 20/02/2008 10:15

oh dear god some of these are so funny

RosJ · 20/02/2008 10:15

I find the biggest annoyance with my DS waking a lot in the night is the health visitor trying to make me feel guilty about it. Apparently I'm depriving him of his independence by going to him when he cries in the evening and co-sleeping. Very strangely, I don't find I'm (normally) particularly tired from the night waking (different when he's ill and up from 3:30 am) My supervisor at college says my work has improved since having the baby...maybe I'm a medical anomaly..

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pelafina · 20/02/2008 10:19

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onelittlespeckledfrog · 20/02/2008 10:27

Hee Hee Pelafina. I find the staring bit happens alot now; trying to remember what I was saying / doing etc. There are such long pauses when I am trying to say something that I am sometimes still surprised that the other person in still there when I finish.

Karen999 · 20/02/2008 10:31

Dd2 slept through from 6.30pm - 7am...not a peep and has done since 12 weeks!! grin]

onelittlespeckledfrog · 20/02/2008 10:35

La la la can't hear you.

Surroundedbysnot · 20/02/2008 10:56

Oh my dd did that .... until she hit 9m ....

Karen999 · 20/02/2008 10:58

yes, but my dd2 is 19!!

Only kidding, she's 1 on Saturday....please dont say it will change!

suwoo · 20/02/2008 11:02

DD slept through from 16 weeks and has very rarely woken up in the night since- she is 6 next week . DS is 14 months and has not slept through once! We co-sleep from 10ish when he wakes up (goes to bed at 6.30) normally wakes up once or twice between then and 6 ish. Last night was awake from 2 until 3.30 wanted to play . I work evenings too, until 9pm . Last night I couldn't find the jar of sauce I had been using and noticed it was on top of the fridge with the Easter eggs!

trixymalixy · 20/02/2008 11:49

DS is 13 months and has slept through 4 times in his life.

He's normally up a minimum of twice, but generally 3 or 4 times.

I just started back at work and I don't know if I can cope with the lack of sleep.

I can see now why people go on about woman drivers. It is because they are the ones dealing with sleep deprivation. I used to think I was a good driver, but now I'm always in the wrong lane etc. I can no longer reverse park, which used to be my thing I could do well!

CoteDAzur · 20/02/2008 12:00

DD has slept through at 4 months, after we took her paediatrician's advice and cut out night feeds. She has been sleeping through ever since, unless when sick. Doesn't even wake up when I go in her room several times in the night to untangle her blanket and collect her dummies from under her body.

When I read thread like these and realize people have kids who don't sleep through way after their 1st or 2nd birthdays, I feel lucky we had the paed to show us the way at the time. Sorry if that sounds smug

belgo · 20/02/2008 12:07

yes, cote dazur, that does sound smug, and no advice from a pead could get my children sleeping through at 4 months.

Glad it worked for you though, you obviously have a child that naturally sleeps well.

Fillyjonk · 20/02/2008 12:08

oh NONE of mine do

they are 4, 2 and 1 1/2 weeks

CoteDAzur · 20/02/2008 12:19

Er no. DD didn't "naturally sleep well" at all. At four months, she was waking up for a feed at 11:30, 2:30, and 4:30.

If we hadn't cut out the night feeds at that point and showed a bit of tough love for a few nights, she would not have slept through on her own for a long time to come. I would probably be here right now, asking how I can get my 2.5 yr old to sleep through the night.

Dr R., if you are reading this, I Love You.

suwoo · 20/02/2008 12:22

I don't want to do the 'tough love thing' though. I did it with DD but just WILL NOT do it with DS. DH said I have bought all this upon myself. I know he will settle and sleep when HE is ready.

soremummy · 20/02/2008 12:26

Well we don't do too bad in our house! For instance on saturday ds slept from 10pm until 11 am on sunday, dd1 slept from 9.15pm till 12 on sunday, dd2 slept from 9.30pm till 1pm on sunday, dd3 woke up about 5 times from 11 until 7 when i got up.
Btw ds is 17, dd1 is 15, dd2 is 13 and the girls had just come back from a ski trip to Italy and were totally shattered!

GreenGlassGoblin · 20/02/2008 12:29

Cote, you're still sounding smug. We cut out night feeds. We tried 'tough love' (aka controlled crying) for 5 hideous nights with 4 hours of crying and wailing and hysterics each night, and no signs of progress at all. Ds was older, but it had no effect whatsoever. Now he is just 3 weeks off his 2nd birthday and has slept 8-2, 8.30-4 and 10.30pm-5.30am, all in the last 2 weeks. For some of them it just takes time, time, time.

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Floppytulips · 20/02/2008 12:43

LOL Soremummy! You must have clocked up a fair few years of crazy night times by now though? How old is DD3?

Has anyone else in a bleary state 'changed' a nappy in the middle of the night but actually just put the old one back on, or worse, none at all... or is it just me?

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belgo · 20/02/2008 12:46

Floppytuplips - we used washable nappies which need a water proof covering - in my sleep deprived state I certainly forgot the water proof covering more then once!

Olihan · 20/02/2008 12:52

Ds2 is almost 14mo now and has slept through 5 times.

A good night is 1 wakeup, a bad night he can be up more than hourly.

I have done so many stupid things while tired - the long stare while I'm processing what's been said to me, or I remember what I'm supposed to be doing is normal now. If I manage to answer dh in less than 30 seconds I reckon he'd fall over!

Cote D'Azur, until I had ds2 I thought people whose children didn't sleep were doing something wrong. I thought a bit of sleep training and cutting out feeds, etc would sort them out. Ds1 and dd both slept through from 4 months, I've done nothing different with ds2 - he just doesn't sleep, despite all our efforts.

Until you've been there and experienced just how stressful and debilitating it is to have a non sleeping child I think it's insensitive and very smug to come on a thread like this and write what you did.

If getting them to sleep through was as simple as cutting out night feeds do you really think we'd all be getting up umpteen times a night for months and months on end?

Of course not.