Sleeping through the night?
Well, after monitoring 10 nights, she's been sleeping between 7-9 hours. So I think that she is sleeping through the night.... well sort of.
Depends on how "early" or "late" the last feed is, but the last 2 nights, she's been wanting her last feed earlier than later, like 7pm!
Of course, there's still the cry after 5-6 hours of sleep for her dummy... so I'm not quite sleeping through the night just yet. But it's an improvement.
Having said that, I'd really love to be able to sleep 8 hours uninterrupted someday... I guess I will be looking forward to the new years... apparently by 6 months, they do sleep 10-12 hours. So fingers crossed that she will start doing that earlier! :P
Why? Because apparently 50% of the babies sleep through the night by 3 months, by that, they meant, a 6-8 hour gap between the last feed and the first feed in the next day. Most people do the last feed around 10pm.
But she started doing this 6-8 hour gap thing after 7 weeks (not quite consistently but most of the time it was more 6-7 hours... Then the night before she was 10 weeks old, this 7-9 hour gap pattern started, with some help of dummy runs from mum.
(Why? Because I found out if I just fed her when she cried at night, sometimes she's so sleepy, 5 mins later she's passed out. So she didn't really wanted the feed, just needed her dummy to go back to sleep)
Anyways... so I hope this is the pattern to stay. Hopefully soon it'd be at least 8 hours then 9.... but most importantly... she will have one very long sleep without waking up for the dummy!! Now that would actually make the biggest difference I think!
So maybe when that happens, my brain will finally function properly again. Fingers crossed.
Sally
Depends on how "early" or "late" the last feed is, but the last 2 nights, she's been wanting her last feed earlier than later, like 7pm!
Of course, there's still the cry after 5-6 hours of sleep for her dummy... so I'm not quite sleeping through the night just yet. But it's an improvement.
Having said that, I'd really love to be able to sleep 8 hours uninterrupted someday... I guess I will be looking forward to the new years... apparently by 6 months, they do sleep 10-12 hours. So fingers crossed that she will start doing that earlier! :P
Why? Because apparently 50% of the babies sleep through the night by 3 months, by that, they meant, a 6-8 hour gap between the last feed and the first feed in the next day. Most people do the last feed around 10pm.
But she started doing this 6-8 hour gap thing after 7 weeks (not quite consistently but most of the time it was more 6-7 hours... Then the night before she was 10 weeks old, this 7-9 hour gap pattern started, with some help of dummy runs from mum.
(Why? Because I found out if I just fed her when she cried at night, sometimes she's so sleepy, 5 mins later she's passed out. So she didn't really wanted the feed, just needed her dummy to go back to sleep)
Anyways... so I hope this is the pattern to stay. Hopefully soon it'd be at least 8 hours then 9.... but most importantly... she will have one very long sleep without waking up for the dummy!! Now that would actually make the biggest difference I think!
So maybe when that happens, my brain will finally function properly again. Fingers crossed.
Sally
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