Sleeping

My baby is 6 weeks and wakes up once throughout the night, we have been in a routine though pretty much since the first week of him being here message me xx

Hey @Kim! I Would also love to hear about your routine! I am struggling to with it at the moment. Baby still wakes up 3-4 times a night at 8 weeks

Hey Luzia I’ll drop you a message xx

We are doing 6 hours at night mostly- she will get up with us in the morning around 9am and demand feed and sleep most of the day. We try and keep her awake as much as possible in the evening before offering 160ml of pumped breast milk before putting her down at 11pm. She then will wake around 5/6am for another feed x

My little guy is 5 weeks and we're down to one feed overnight. We don't have a bedtime routine for him yet, but feeds tend to be every 3-4 hours so we aim for feeds to be 12am, 4am and 8am. Until this week, we've been waking him up at 4 hours for a feed but we're trialing out feeding on demand overnight to see what happens. We've had a couple gaps of 5 hours but nothing consistent. He's naturally waking up after 3.5 - 4.5 hours which I'm more than happy with atm

I don't mean to be pessimistic but generally babies don't sleep through at this age, and even if they do it may change again in a few months 😅. It's good to start having consistency and a bedtime routine but also good to be realistic with expectations. They generally don't have enough fat stores yet to be able to sleep through the entire night without at least one feed. That's not to say some babies can't (and some do sleep through at this age) but it's better not put high expectations on our little ones. My oldest started sleeping through at around 9 months and everyone I know can't believe it/thinks that's so young to sleep through the night 😅. Some of my friends babies slept through very young and then after a few months they started waking again, so you just never know and it's best to keep an open mind and be flexible so you don't get too down about it 🥲, it's really a journey with kids and lots of things impact the sleep journey we have to just roll with it 🫠

You can’t really get a baby especially this age to sleep through the night… if also depends what you define as sleeping through the night. Some think it’s one 6-8 hour stretch, some think it’s 12 hours. They are just too little to put any expectation on and even the best routine doesn’t translate to longer sleep stretches. It depends on your baby and loads of variables like their weight and even things like whether you are using a dummy or not. That’s not to say you can’t foster some good sleep habits but it won’t necessarily mean sleeping through. Babies biologically wake at night and until their sleep cycles mature (around 4 months) it could all change again. My girl was a terrible newborn sleeper but from 4/5+ months got a lot better and feeds were down to 1-2 feeds per night during a 12 hour window and then from 8/9 months she slept through the night and got pretty consistent but has also stayed that way.

I'm breastfeeding and my baby is 5 weeks old. He usually wakes around 12am, 4am and then 6.30/7am I start my sleep around 9/10pm when he first falls asleep and I usually get 7-8 hours sleep. So I do need to go to bed for a long time but wake up usually pretty refreshed

My nearly 7w old tends to go to sleep about 9ish and will normally do a stretch until about half 2 but then when he's back down after a feed he's up regularly (or extremely noisy active sleep) - typically has about 6 naps a day, most of them only 45m unless in a carrier

@Kerry mine struggles with naps during the day, it has to be contact naps otherwise he will not go down. We have around 4 a day just because i lay down with him, but it’s a fight to fall asleep anyways. During the night he wakes up 3-4 to eat as we can’t seem to get him to eat more than 100ml, sometimes 120 ml of formula, so he wakes up to eat each time. But falls asleep pretty fast. How much does yours eat at 9pm?x