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what does it mean when people say "my baby sleeps through the night"?
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Anonymous
OP here, I don't see how my post justifies as a rant or even a mean spirited comment like this. I asked because I was genuinely confused and wondering if DD was like other babies. Isnt this what this forum is for - to be able to ask questions of other moms who have been there done that? |
Anonymous
I'm guessing that PP meant to reply to thread about someone bringing their sick kids to a holiday dinner. The reply makes no sense in response to your question. |
Anonymous
It means they are lying. 
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Anonymous
My DD was formula fed. She started sleeping 7 hours or so by 6 weeks. She was sleeping 12 hours by 12 weeks old. We were also very routine-oriented and took her out a lot during the day. We never let her get over-tired. Plus, we got lucky. I think it is a combo of both that determines these things. |
Anonymous
If, by a combo, you mean almost entirely one thing, you got it. I know parents who had no routine at all and got a babe that STTN from birth. I know (more) parents who followed all the advice and whose children didn't come close to STTN until sleep training. |
Anonymous
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Mine slept through the night at 2w. old - would go to bed at 7:30pm, wake up around 11pm for half an hour and then go back to sleep until 3am, eat and go straight back to sleep until 8am. She would then eat again and we would both sleep in until 10am. Heavens!
Now she goes to bed at 6pm and wakes up between 6 and 7am. I dream nurse her before I go to bed, just for cuddles and because it is our only nursing session at this point. I prefer the old schedule
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Anonymous
I would never define that as STTN. |
Anonymous
| any stretch of 6 or more hours when it's dark outside is considered STTN. |
Anonymous
Really? You'd call 6pm to 12am STTN? |
Anonymous
Yes, this is what pediatricians and baby books mean. I consider our baby to sleep through the night now (at 3.5 months) because he only needs to eat twice in the night and never fully wakes up (i.e. doesn't cry, doesn't need to be changed, will go right back to sleep when I nurse him). I usually wake up at least that often in the night, and many times I need to pee, so that's good enough for me! (He now does a 4-5 hour stretch followed by 2.5 hour stretches, usually from about 8-10pm to 7-9am depending on how much he slept in the earlier part of the afternoon/evening.) |
Anonymous
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I'm also of the camp that sleeping through the night means that YOU don't have to wake up.
Our first DS was an amazing sleeper- he started sleeping through the night (aka, 9pm-7am) at around 2 months. I think this is primarily because he was such a big baby (95% for weight), so he could hold more milk. He was EBF, and is still a great sleeper. Our second DS (also EBF) is now 11 weeks old and still not sleeping through the night, at least in my book. He typically sleeps from 8:30pm -4:30am and then back to sleep from around 5am-8am. Even though he does an 8 hour stretch, I don't consider this STTN, because I am up at 4:30am! And it is hard for me to go back to sleep, so I usually lose about 1.5 hours of sleep, and am generally pretty exhausted. I am going to start sleep training soon - trying to move his feeding time by 15 minutes later each night until he gets to 7am. |
Anonymous
Yes, ma'am. Kids don't know how to read the clock. All they know is dark/light cycles with the help of mom's melotonin if they're BF. That's why we put DC to sleep at 10pm and we don't hear from him until 5am and we all get plenty of sleep. |
Anonymous
Kids may not know how to read a clock, but parents do. It just doesn't make sense to define STTN from the baby's perspective. If you do, it's a pretty meaningless definition, because what people really are asking is, "When can [b]I[/b] expect to get some sleep?" My DS was BF for 6 weeks and slept only 4 hours at a stretch. When we switched to formula that improved to about 5 hours, but suddenly at 12 weeks he slept from 7pm - 5am and has ever since. I can't take credit - we didn't sleep train, he just did it on his own. |
Anonymous
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Maybe instead of "sttn" it should be "when did your baby start sleeping in 10 hour stretches?"
anyway, just to counter all those people who are writing about how their babies starting sleeping in long stretches at 11 weeks, DS was up every 3 to 4 hours until 6 months, at which point he just suddenly went from feeding at 7, 11, 2, and 5 (or some variation) to sleeping 7 to 5 am. He's now a year and sleeps 7:30 to 5:30, wakes to nurse 10 min and sleeps another hour. But |
Anonymous
Your fight is not with me, sweet pie. Healthcare professionals do the research and publications are peer reviewed. Go talk to the big guys. Signed, Mom of a EBF baby who came from the hospital STTN (6 hours stretches any time between 7pm and 8am) |