7 week old has slept through the night......

[HoopsAndBaby]

as the title says, just wondering if this is a fluke or it is something that will be routine from now on........am I just wishful tinking??

Well, you might be lucky and think it'll be routine from now but you may well be disappointed (although I hope not). I would enjoy each good night as it comes, even if they don't become 'routine'.

On the other hand, it is always comforting after a bad night to know that bad nights don't necessarily mean that bad nights will become routine.

One thing's for certain: any sleeping pattern will change at some point even if only temporarily - growth spurts, developmental spurts, sleep regressions, teething, illnesses etc etc. Babies Are Random.

Maybe I'm being overly negative. I'm just very !

My DS2 slept through between 8 weeks and 24 weeks. He is now 13 months and sadly good sleep and he are strangers. He now wakes at least twice a night!

two of mine did freaky wonderful sleeping
through for a couple of weeks when very young

it never lasts

My DD1 did this and it did last.
But then I had DD2 who decided not to bother sleeping much for the first 6 months.
It might become routine if you are lucky.

DS slept through from 10 weeks for a good few months till teething and other things put paid to it. I didn't feed him in the night from 10 weeks though and he has always been a pretty good sleeper.

Enjoy it while it lasts! If you are breastfeeding though, you might want to talk to a breastfeeding counsellor. I have a suspicion that DS's lack of night feeding adversely affected my supply. I wish now that I'd tried to do a dreamfeed or something

thanks for your replies, borntofolk I had to get up at 0330 to express cause my boobs were huge and totally engorged and very painful so although he got a good nights sleep I still had to get up so I don't think my supply will be affected.

I hope I stay lucky, he really is a very happy and contented baby, usally first thing I look into his cot and see a smiley happy face looking up at me, which sets me up for the day

Hi hoops,
My DS slept through 3 nights running at 10 weeks...I thought I had it made...now he'll do it about once a month, and he's 8 months old, sorry!

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Over Christmas when my baby was 6 weeks old I had the best present ever... 3 nights pretty much through the night (7-8 hours solid). Then it got much worse! Only now, at 6 months, is he doing much better. But all babies are so different, perhaps you'll be one of teh lucky ones! Hope it lasts!

my dd did, consistently.
but not ds1 or ds2 sadly.

my dd seems to have started doing just the same...since she was 8 weeks, 9pm - 4.30-5.00ish. She's almost 10 weeks now so i too hope it continues.

My boobs were swollen as hell the first few mornings but it has adjusted a bit now

the sleeping through seemed to start when we introduced a bedtime routine and put her down earlier. we were previously keeping her up with us because she was grouchy - didn't realise it was because she needed to go to bed

Now if only i could just sort out the daytime naps... [hopeful]

hullygully ??

My boys slept through 12 hours a night from six weeks and my dd kept her midnght feed until 12 weeks but then went straight to a 14 hr night of sleep. None of them ever woke in the nights unless they were very ill which was rare.
Mind you, they were bottlefed.

I think that was a hollow laugh from Hully .

DD did this a few times at that age. Was one before she reliably slept through...

so it's probably a fluke then....bugger, oh well we'll have to see what tonight brings....

It might not be a fluke. Just keep any night feeds really boring. Was the baby having quick feeds at night anyway? My DD1 used to feed every night at 2:30am, but just before she stopped these feeds dwindled to just a couple of minutes. She simply didn't need them, but she was a frequent feeder in the day and I gave her a quick 10pm top up which saw her through until after 7am (or one day until 9am - I thought she had died and woke up in a dreadful panic!)

Oh, and there was no adverse effect on my supply. In the morning I used to feed her on one side and pump a full bottle on the other so my DH could feed her later.

My youngest slept through the night (12 hours solid) from 6 weeks old. She is 18 mths old now and still sleeping like a log

My oldest child was a creature of the night for the first 3 years, though, so I am officially allowed to be a smuggins.

haliorange night feeds were taking a maximum of 10 minutes and he feeds frequently in the day, every 2 hours roughly......

Two nights ago my 9wk old slept 9hrs,
last night we were up every 3-4hrs !!!

BUT....as my mum used to say to me with my first....even if it doesn't happen again, it shows they can do it ! so there is hope.

Go to bed tonight hoping for the best !

Hope your days settle a little

Ha ha Fourlittleducks. That's what they do. Sleep well occasionally to give you hope and then knacker you the rest of the time. .

oh my little baba started sleeping through the night at 8weeks! still bloody knackered mind!!!