Inconsistent sleeping at night for 13 week old

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Hi, just wondered if anyone had any experience of the following as i can't remember back to when ds1 was this age!

DS2 is 13 weeks old and so far, spent the first few weeks feeding every 1-2 hours through the night, then it stretched to 3 hour feedings and has remained fairly constant (i.e. falls asleep around 9, then wakes at 12, 3, 6 or around those times!).

However, over last couple of weeks, he has slept from 9 and not woken until 3 on a couple of occasions.

Both times, he's slept horrendously in the day (leading up to the night), just catnapping all day, no longer than 10-15 minutes at a stretch.

So, I have two questions. Firstly, please tell me these 6 hour stretches are the start of something good and that he just hasn't quite got there consistently DS1 was much more consistent with his sleeping, so i'm not used to this sleeping lots one night, up a lot the following night.

Secondly, i thought good daytime sleeping = good nighttime sleeping?

Any thoughts /experiences very much welcome!

Thanks

Your right about the good day sleep = good night sleep. Very true.
It might be the start of better nights. But don't count on it till its actually happening regularly.

well heres hoping the 6hr sleep is the start of something good but my if my 5 mth old sleeps well in the day he sleeps worst at night.

Mine were pretty all over the place. I think you've gotta go with the flow...are you putting him down when he seems tired or at the same times during the day? Maybe if he's had some long stretches at night, he will need a bit less in the day, and will be a bit less tired, so keep him going a bit longer until seems tired. It's a bit hard to keep adapting the day sleeps but hopefully it'll mean he's just going to be a good, long sleeper quite early on .

thanks for your posts.
yesterday he hardly slept from mid-day until 9pm (despite me and my sister trying to encourage him to sleep), when he then slept until 2.30. i really hope it's the start of better nights

definitely the case that little daytime sleeps = longer night time stretch here, which i know goes against the grain of what i've read.

i'm putting him down when he seems tired, although it seems that if i miss his first tired slot (about 40 minutes after waking up in the morning), his whole day is out and he fights sleep. i'm finding i'm not as patient at rocking / spending time getting him to sleep as i was with ds1

thanks again for posting.

my twelve week old was exactly the same, until I started putting him down to sleep earlier, at about 7.30pm, now he will sleep till 5am! so an earlier bedtime worked for me.

My DS has always had an inconsistent sleeping pattern, ranging from 0 to 9 wakings per night. He is now 6 months old.

Babies Are Random.

God I found the randomness a killer! Finally got truly consistent 4 weeks ago at 18 weeks for us. the only problem now is that DS's preferred bedtime is early (6:30) which often means a 5am start

still at least I know he will do 8 or 9 hours before he wakes and so can plan my drinking evening accordingly

The only thing I have found that is certain is that just when you think you have cracked something, the baby goes and moves the goalposts again

My DD started sleeping through (9pm - 5 or 6am) at 8 weeks. At first I thought it was too good to be true, and then when she had been doing it for about 3 weeks I thought hey, great, this is permanent. How wrong I was. I got smug and now I regret it as since 12 weeks she has stopped doing it. She now wakes at least once, usually about 2 or 3am, sometimes more. Because I had got used to the long sleeps, I'm now finding it really hard.

I am now trying to go with the flow and I am going to try putting her to bed extra early tonight to see if the early-to-bed theory works for her.

I meant to add, she is 15 weeks now.

CurlyLJ has it spot on!

well...the good news is that dd managed only one waking last night.

The bad news is that it lasted 2.5 hours from 1am until 3.30, then back to sleep until 8.30

Please let tonight be better

This all sounds so familiar - my 20 week old DD is completely random also. I keep thinking it must be due to my complete failure to set up a 'proper' routine. But some nights she'll fall asleep at 7pm and others she just won't go down until eleven.
She'll then sleep anywhere between 3 and 8 hours, sometimes waking every hour thereafter - and sometimes staying awake for an hour or two in the middle of the night.
I've decided to just chill and let her sort it out eventually - she seems a bonny happy wee thing during the day so it can't be doing any long-term damage......here's hoping.
Meantime, I am plagued by insomnia as I wait for the next waking. Arrrrggghhh.
Stick with it I reckon - it definitely is getting better for me. You just have to be prepared for some nights to be awesome and some to be a little off colour. Celebrate the good ones and quickly forget the others!