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i need to hear that other DC wake up in the middle of the night still (>8mo)
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| None of my three slept more than a 5 hour stretch until they were at least a year. Good luck, OP. |
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Sorry, my DD is only 7 months, but given that this has been going on for the past 4 months, I doubt anything's going to change that much in the next 4...  I moved the clock out of the room because it only made me crazy to know how often she was waking, but she definitely wakes more than 2-3 times in an 11 hour stretch. Sometimes she just needs a pat on the back and sometimes I feed her. She has just never been a sleepy baby, not even as a newborn. Hard to nap, hard to sleep at night, no typical drowsy signs, raring to go at 6 a.m. if not earlier...
I don't think my friends who tell me their babies are STTN are lying, but I do kind of feel like having a tantrum of my own when those whose babies are waking up ONCE for a 3 a.m. feed after 8 hours of solid sleep despair of it to me and complain about it and talk about how tired they are. |
Anonymous
| Mine didn't sleep through the night consistently 'til about 14 months. She is still a great sleeper at 21 months. I think I appreciate it all the more because it was soooo bad in the beginining, and then just so long to get from mediocre to where we are. I got frustrated with all the sleep inquiries (who knew it was such a popular question for new monthers?) and answered vaguely "Is she sleeping through the night?" "Oh, she's doing great, thanks!" |
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When people tell you that, they are lying. Or, exagerating. A coworker of mine was telling everyone about how her DD STTN and what a great sleeper she was....until one day she came into my office in tears telling me that her daughter was was waking up in the night, but she felt like a bad parent adminting to it.
Weird....but true. My DD STTN off and on. She'll have periods where she wakes up 2-3 times a night and then she STTN consistently. I just figure, eventually she'll figure it out and I'm not going to stress about it. THe people who care to ask are either people whose kids are also not sleeping or people who are just asking to be nice. |
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My first woke up AT LEAST 2xs in the night (often 3xs) until a year. I did not have ONE, not ONE uninterrupted nights sleep for a solid year. At a year, a light switch went off (I did nothing different) and he started STTN. That year was brutal.
My #2 is 11mos old and just started STTN at 10mos. I consider it a blessing, as I was fully prepared for the year of hell. #2 also only wakes once in the night (except when he was under 5mos, he would wake multiple times). So, he is generally a better sleeper, but I was pleasantly suprised to get a good nights sleep at 10 mos. I'm a FT working mom, so these babies sleep patterns kill me. If I could nap during the day, or simply zone out, it would have been more bareable! |
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| My DS didn't sleep through the night once until he was 18 months. He is 2.5 and I'm up at least once a night with him. A friend told me that any full night sleep a parent gets before age 7 is a gift. I believe it. |
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My 18-month-old was up twice last night. At least he stayed in his crib for the full night. More often that not lately, he's been in our bed by about 2am.
And he didn't sleep through the night for the first time until 10 months, then was off and on for a few months. Then good, then bad. Now half-way decent. You're definitely not the only one. |
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DS is 4 and still wakes up in the middle of the night (though he starts off in his own bed) and we find him in our bed in the morning.
This is true in many families. |
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I don't know if it makes you feel better or worse to hear that my DS didn't STTN till 3y. 
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Anonymous
| My daughter didn't sleep through the night until at least a year and even then she'd still get up once a night because it was winter she'd be sick or teething and need comforting. |
Anonymous
| It's so nice to see posts where parents can admit their kids don't sleep through the night instead of talking to parents in person and they look at you like you're doing something wrong because their little angels can sleep for 10-12 hours straight since they were two months. |
Anonymous
| My 3.5 yr old still wakes up 1 to 2 times a night EVERY SINGLE NIGHT. I'm still waiting for her STTN like my DS (who started doing so at 11 months). |
Anonymous
| 15mo DS does not STTN and never has, though the number of wake ups has gone down. In the past month or so he will sometimes go longer stretches, sometimes until about 4:30am (goes to sleep now around 8:30pm). He starts off in his crib and ends up in our bed after his first or second wake up so I can get some sleep (I WOHFT). I keep thinking that one day he will figure it out and he has gotten better so I think that is true. Cosleeping helps me a lot because I can sleep; if I wake up it is only for a second. Plus, I love snuggling with him. It makes me feel more connected to him since we have so little time together during the day. |
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My first DD was one of those kids who slept through the night (and I'm talking 10-12 hours) from 3 months old. We patted ourselves on the backs about how we got her to sleep so well. Well, karma's a bitch.
DD #2 is 7 months old and up at least 2 times night to nurse and usually a couple other times, where she needs to be soothed back to sleep. Most days, I'm in a delusional state of sleep deprivation. You're not alone.... |
Anonymous
| Our 20 month old still frequently wakes up 1-2 times per night. |