Sttn

[kosh]

hello ladies!
just trying to understand what makes a baby STTN or not (the million dollar question! )

if you FF could you please tell me if your LO wakes several times or if s/he STTN, and also if this was after sleep training?
thanks!

 

[sapphire1]

I didn't vote because Holly is 18 months old now and STTN. She didn't STTN til she was around 11.5 months though. Formula and sleep training didn't work for us! She had a bottle in the night til she was about 1. We tried PUPD, CC and CIO. Probably half-heartedly tbh, but they didn't seem to work. We co-slept if she wouldn't settle and that did seem to work - she woke less than if I left her in the cot.

 

[kosh]

I didn't vote because Holly is 18 months old now and STTN. She didn't STTN til she was around 11.5 months though. Formula and sleep training didn't work for us! She had a bottle in the night til she was about 1. We tried PUPD, CC and CIO. Probably half-heartedly tbh, but they didn't seem to work. We co-slept if she wouldn't settle and that did seem to work - she woke less than if I left her in the cot.

thanks,that's really interesting! so, your LO is the living proof that STTN or not might be intrinsic to the baby?

 

[Pielette]

Mine does, and not after sleep training. I got him into a routine pretty early to encourage him to get his feeds mostly during the day and after a while he didn't need feeding at night, think he was about 3 months when it stopped.

 

[smiley330]

DS1 was sttn at 12 weeks, 6pm-7am. He was doing 6pm-3am-7am at about 7 weeks though. So depends what you call sttn (some people say its a long stretch of sleep ) DS2 is currently doing the 6pm-2/3am-7/8am. He was doing this with ebm and hasn't changed since moving him onto formula. No sleep training other than getting them both into a good bedtime routine at 6 weeks

x

 

[eulmh82]

I honestly don;t think there is anything that can amake a baby sttn until they are ready. My baby is 13 wks old and he did 9.30 til 5.45 last night and that's the best he's done so far. He eats little and often- that's the way he is so it;s taken time for him to work out that he needs to get his food in the day. He can only take 4oz at a time so he feeds 2 hourly in the day - this is with demand feeding and this makes him go longer at night. It all depends on the baby I think

 

[lilofred]

i always be afraid to comment incase things change lol but my lo started sttn from 8 weeks old and he is now 5 and a half months. we didnt do any training and kinda just followed his queues...
he basically fed 7am, 11am, 3pm, 7pm, 11pm, 3am around the clock to begin with and we tried sticking to this from the start (sometimes stretched out with a dummy and even woke for the 3am feed for a week or 2)... then we stopped wakening for the 3am feed and he gradually stretched himself out to 7- 7.30...
he now only takes 4 bottles 7.30am, 11.30am, 3.30pm, 7.30pm and bed for around 8.30- 9.00pm.
i kept a record book of times he fed and sleeps...i think it is so important that they get plenty of sleep and dont become over tired. i initially though i would keep him awake so he would do a good nite sleep but i actually think this done more harm than good...my motto is 'the more he sleeps the better he sleeps' but i wouldnt allow more than 2 hrs in the afternoon

 

[HellBunny]

My eldest didn't sleep through until he was 16months (was off formula then) didn;t do any training xx

 

[dizz]

No, but I don't expect her to for a very long time to come - she'll do it when she's ready, and if she's like me - she may never get a complete night's sleep (I tend to wake up and furtle about the hosue a couple of times during a night anyway - bad insomnia). She feeds at 9pm > 12midnight > 3am and then up for the day at 6/6.30... I think she'll drop the midnight feed of her own accord in a month or so since she takes much less at it - but I think the 3am one will be a longer term fixture.

 

[Amanda04]

My LO is 4 months old and isn't a good sleeper (waking every 45mins - 2 hours) and has been from very early on. He sometimes does a 5 hour stretch at the beginning of the night then wakes often after that. He was combi fed from birth and only recently switched to FF completely. However he is fed at night, whether it's BM or formula made no difference to how he sleeps.

I am hoping that one day soon he'll just 'get it' and start STTN! I think that may be a very distant dream for us at the moment though!

 

[aimee-lou]

Haven't voted as my littlest is still only 3 weeks lol - not really a fair target lol.

Earl didn't sleep through until he was 15 months. He woke at least once for a bottle if not more times. We used to do a dream feed at about midnight up until he was about 8 months old, and this was normally enough to see him through til 5.30am which was his wake up time (after going to bed about 7pm). At 8 months we stopped the dream feed as he started to wake naturally at about 11pm for a feed anyway lol.

We did CC at 6 months but it made no impact on his night-waking.

At 15 months we ran out of follow on milk, so gave him cows milk before bed, and he magically slept through and has done ever since. I know I'm flummoxed still to this day lol.

 

[Lady_Bee]

My LO still wakes several times a night! Dohhhhh. He is going through this annoying phase where he won't drink more than 2-3 oz at a time so I think this is why he wakes up so much

 

[moonitee]

I think it depends what you class as sttn. My LO is 11 weks old and she sleeps from 7-5 which to me is sleeping through the night. She wakes for a feed at anywhere between 5 and 8. If she wakes at 5 she has her bottle and goes straight back to sleep till 8. I am happy with this and she has been doing this for several weeks now. I did not do anything different, she just didnt wake up one night for her feed and it continued!!!

 

[charleosgirl]

Combi feeder here and LO will sttn one night then get up at 2 or 3 the next. Completely random at this point and she's 3mths 2 wks

 

[sequeena]

T doesn't sleep through. He wakes very frequently. I don't do sleep training, I'd rather be woken.

 

[Gem_Clem]

My LO sleeps through the night, shes always been a good sleeper, for the first 2 weeks she slept from midnight till 7am, me & OH were shocked we were prepared to be up all night! As she grew a bit she started waking about 4am for a feed then at week 5 and 6 she had colic which was keeping her up but once I started added Colief to her milk she went back to sleeping right through, her last feed used to be 11pm ish and was sleeping till 9:30am but I noticed she was getting overtired and cranky at night so I started putting her down earlier. She now gets her last feed at 9:30pm and sleeps till 8:30am then she wakes up for a feed and goes back to sleep till about half 11.

 

[liz1985]

My LO slept through from 11 weeks, with no sleep training. First he dropped his 11 o clock and slept from around 730- 4, then he dropped the 4oclock about a week later, and woke up at 6, now on average he sleeps from about 730-8.

 

[Yumimum]

My LO sleeps through from 7pm to 7am usually she is formula fed and has a dream feed at around 9pm otherwise she wakes up at 5am for a feed. She does go through phases of sleeping really well for month then being very unsettled for a week etc but I think its usually down to teething

 

[Vickie]

6.5 months was when my DD slept through (7-7)

DS (6 weeks) gets up 1-2 times still

 

[Mrs_Grissom]

My LO is 16 weeks and has been sleeping through the night since about 7 weeks He has his last feed at about 7pm and wakes anywhere between 5:30 and 7am He did it gradually, waking for less feeds in the night as I upped the size of his feeds x