Owen is a pretty good sleeper, for awhile now he's only been getting up 2 times a night. I've read a few articles that say once a baby weighs 12 lbs and at 3 months they no longer have the physical need to wake up and eat in the middle of the night. We'll Owen was 14 lbs at his 2 month doctors appointment, so I figure we can at least cut out one of the feedings. A few nights ago, I started giving Owen pep talks saying you can sleep longer you can cut out the midnight feeding and just wake up around 3. That night he didn't wake up tell 3:45. Yea I slept. The next night I gave him the same Pep talk and he slept tell 3:30. I was excited it worked I was only feeding him once a night.
Then we had a relapse. He woke up at 1 and around 4, the rest of the night I lay there listing to him moan and groan. Ahhh No sleep. Last night I gave him his pep talk again and he slept tell 4!! Since he starts crying and acting tired at about 7 and I give in at 7:30 and let him go to sleep that like 8 and a half hours of sleep for him straight. To bad I can't get him to stay up an hour later so I can get more sleep. Oh well he's usually pretty good about going back to sleep and if he doesn't I put him in his swing and I go back to bed.
He sounds like a pretty good baby.
ReplyDeleteDon't hate me, but Ava was an amazing sleeper. I'm scared to have another one because she was so good. She started sleeping 11 hours straight at 3 months. She always slept 6 hours straight from birth. The only problem in the beginning was she thought bed time was at 1:00 a.m. and occasionally she'd spit up her last bottle at midnight, so I had to was spit up out of her clothes and mine at midnight. I get less sleep when she's cutting teeth than I did when she was a newborn. Most of my nieces and nephews started sleeping through the night around 6 months after they started on baby food.
ReplyDeleteYa I remember you saying that Laura. He has been sleeping 6 hours since he was about a month. My problem is he wants to go to bed at like 7 but I want him to stay up a little longer. Last night he slept for 9 hours straight so I think we are close he just didn't want to go back to bed after that and I wasn't ready to start my day at 5am.
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