hello!!
My daughter is almost 10 weeks old. she starts sleeping only by 3 am (sometimes only by 6 am). i have just another week left to get back to work. any idea how long newborns will stay awake like this? may be, by 4th or 5th month, can i expect to get some sleep at night?
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thanks
Sadly its very individual - my brother for example only needed around 20mins sleep a night until he was at school.....literally, he went to sleep clinics and alsorts lol. They do gradually move their bedtime earlier from what I've seen, Dylan has been in bed for 730pm for a good while now, he gradually moved it earlier and earlier himself with no prompting from me. But sadly he was a 2 hourly waker up until recently and he is nearly 8 months now soo.......
Best thing (IMO) you can do is have a bedtime routine. It doesn't have to be a rigid thing, I'm not suggesting a schedule, but more of a set order you do things so it will cue LO for bedtime. Someone I know had it so well that all they had to do was close the blinds, and their LO yawned ready lol. Just something so they recognise "ahhhh, this means bedtime is next"...... does that make sense?
Anybody elses lo wake up crying but go back to sleep as soon as you pick them up? my lo is 10.5 months and has been doing this since 7.5 months(since her teeth came in) Im starting to get fed up because its been going on for this long. She just wakes up crying at random times during the night but as soon as i pick her up she goes straight back to sleep. But she ALWAYS wakes up about 12 for a feed but i just end up bringing her into bed as its easier,but then shes awake for the day at 5:30 and likes to wake me up by crawling on my head. I dont remember being this tired even when she was a newborn lol xx
Might sound stupid but is she properly awake? Dylan cries in his sleep it would appear. I never believed this of my LO for a long while, but I always picked him up or popped a boob straight in when he made a noise (didn't want DH to be disturbed mostly, easiest option secondly!) and found him to be pretty much asleep instantly........but recently I have tried waiting a second - playing dead, as we predominantly co-sleep - and he has put himself back to sleep many of the times that I would previously have picked him up or boobed him.....
I have started to learn when he is sleep crying as it were, and when he is going to escalate and is actually awake so I feed him.
AFM we are still doing pretty well here. Last night was a 3 feed night which is still a dramatic improvement - bedtime was a bit disrupted due to a late nap (same may happen again tbh tonight) but 2 or 3 wakings a night will do me for now....