12 weeks and not sleeping through......

[mama2b]

......Is this normal ?

Its just that it seems that everyone else baby started sleeping through weeks ago !!!

Im still bf apart from the last few nights I have started giving a FF so that I can express that last feed and build up a supply of milk for when we need a babysitter anyhoo for two nights in a row he actually slept all the way to 5am

Then it went right back to normal waking for a feed around 3 hrs after his FF of nearly 8oz. then again 2/3 hours later.

I don't really know what to do now as I don't mind doing one feed but my body and mind can't cope with two nightly feeds at this stage, im exhausted !

The formula is only short-term until I have built up a supply and the first dirty nappy after formula put me off for life, omg the smell !!! Every window in the house was open. Still makes me shudder now just thinking about it.

I want to do a minimum of 6 months bf but I honestly am struggling with these night feeds

 

[Logiebear]

On the contrary it is rare for a baby to sleep through under 12 weeks!

I have had 2 that did but my lo just turned 5 months and still wakes in the night! So don't expect too much too soon xxx

 

[CountingDown]

Olivia was sleeping from 9pm until 6am for a few weeks but has now gone back to needing 3 feeds through the night now!!! I am shattered but just hoping its abit of a spurt or something xx

 

[Mervs Mum]

I think if you did a survey of 12 wk old babies FF OR BF you'd find the majority still woke in the night.

 

[kelly-pelynt]

I wish ella would only wake twice, that would be heaven,shes still up 4 or 5 times a night to feed and shes 17 weeks old.

 

[Samantha675]

Brenn still wakes up twice a night but we still have nights where he's up every two hours. Some babies sleep some don't.

 

[Bec L]

Poppy was up at least 3 times a night till she was 6 months hun xx

 

[Shifter]

Perfectly normal I'm afraid. Jack used to wake once but now it's usually twice, even with a dreamfeed. It's exhausting but it's not forever.

 

[sjnams]

Perfectly normal i'm afraid, my LO is up 1-2 times a night. My HV said it is normal for a healthy baby to wake at least once during the night for a feed until they are 6 months old, the babies that sleep through are the odd ones
Doesn't help though when people ask if your baby is a "good baby"....of course I say "yes, he is a dream" to which they reply "so he sleeps through the night then?"

 

[Shifter]

When people ask me if Jack is "good" I always smile and say "Well he doesn't hang out on street corners in a hoody. He's only three months old." Honestly, how can a baby be "good" or otherwise? I know what they mean is "Is he happy?" or "quiet" or "sleeping through", but I don't like equating those things with the word "good", it implies that the opposite qualities are bad and I simply don't think it's right to label an infant as bad, no matter what their temperament is like.

 

[sjnams]

Agreed!! My LO is a happy, funny, great little guy so I think he is fantastic but he still cries, wakes in the middle of the night for feeds, stays awake from 3am to 5am babbling and giggling but I would never say he is bad, he is amazing, as all babies are

 

[QueenMummyToBe]

Amelia is the same hun.. I'm up a good 2/3 times still and some nights it kills me.
She usually wakes up at 6/7am for a feed so after she has done we go back to sleep until 10am usually and then I feel more normal!

xXx

 

[beancounter]

When people ask me if Jack is "good" I always smile and say "Well he doesn't hang out on street corners in a hoody. He's only three months old." Honestly, how can a baby be "good" or otherwise? I know what they mean is "Is he happy?" or "quiet" or "sleeping through", but I don't like equating those things with the word "good", it implies that the opposite qualities are bad and I simply don't think it's right to label an infant as bad, no matter what their temperament is like.

yeah, ihate that. i just say he's a baby, he's got no moral compass :/ but old ladies come and tell me he's 'trouble' because he's a boy? personally i find old ladies more troubling........

Finn woke once in the night to feed at that age usually. now sometimes he makes it til we get up (6.15) and sometimes he wakes.... I could tell you he 'sleeps through' because he made it till 6.45 once but i think a lot of mothers exaggerate to make it seem like they have a 'good' baby...

 

[Shifter]

yeah, ihate that. i just say he's a baby, he's got no moral compass :/ but old ladies come and tell me he's 'trouble' because he's a boy? personally i find old ladies more troubling........

Finn woke once in the night to feed at that age usually. now sometimes he makes it til we get up (6.15) and sometimes he wakes.... I could tell you he 'sleeps through' because he made it till 6.45 once but i think a lot of mothers exaggerate to make it seem like they have a 'good' baby...

Agreed. I find it odd when people say that their baby "sleeps through" when they wake at 5am Jack's sleep period is 9pm to about 8am, usually with 2 wakings in there at varying times. I don't really ever expect him to sleep that entire time, not at any age. I expect his sleep pattern to change as he gets a bit older so that he has a solid block of maybe 7 hours in there somewhere and awake the rest of the day, with naps. But that might not happen. We'll take it as it comes.

 

[Mervs Mum]

I agree Shifter. If asked if she's a good sleeper my response would be 'She sleeps well for a baby of her age'......

 

[Vickie]

I think if you did a survey of 12 wk old babies FF OR BF you'd find the majority still woke in the night.

Hannah is FF and didn't sleep through until she was weaned onto three meals a day! The truth is a lot of babies don't sleep through until later and it is completely normal

 

[embo216]

Lol my daughter is 15 months and still doesn't!

 

[beancounter]

Agreed. I find it odd when people say that their baby "sleeps through" when they wake at 5am Jack's sleep period is 9pm to about 8am, usually with 2 wakings in there at varying times. I don't really ever expect him to sleep that entire time, not at any age. I expect his sleep pattern to change as he gets a bit older so that he has a solid block of maybe 7 hours in there somewhere and awake the rest of the day, with naps. But that might not happen. We'll take it as it comes.

well, Finn goes to bed at sometime between 6 and 7, so i guess that getting to 6.15 when we get up could be deemed sleeping through, though sometimes it's 4.30, which definitely isn't! Though I still dreamfeed at 10.30. There's so much pressure to sleep through the night, I thought he was pretty good but you still get relatives says so-and-so slept 24 hours a day age, blah deblah. I'll just tell them he's getting up early so he can work on string theory because he's too busy composing sonatas in the daytime.

 

[Shifter]

I'll just tell them he's getting up early so he can work on string theory because he's too busy composing sonatas in the daytime.

 

[mama2b]

Thanks everyone.

Its nice to know im not the only one !

When I was out shopping the other day with Lucas (asleep in pram) some old dear jabbed me in the back (quite hard id like to add!) and screeched at me 'is he always like this' ?!

Nooooooooooooooooooooo