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[quote=Anonymous]I had helped from my mom for the first month and after that my DH shared. I always have formula at night and on the nights I was not taking care of my babies, I could sleep from midnight to 5:30-6 am. I would pump at midnight and then again at 5:30-6. It was a longer stretch than I would do during the day, but it worked and I was always tired, but felt like I could manage.

I had 3 bad sleepers. They would wake up every 2/3 hours for the first few months and did not sleep through the night until 9-16 months.

The first month, my mom would wake up almost every night with the baby. I always pumped at night and never breastfed (except for hospital). I emptied my breasts completely at midnight and they were full and hurting by 5:30 am.

I was able to do this for 4-5 months and then switched to formula and frozen breast milk. Also, having my mom the first month and my husband sharing night duties equally made a huge difference. Being able to get 5-6 hours of uninterrupted sleep every other day was great.
We didn’t let baby cry to sleep train. We tried other gentle ways, but did not work very well with our kids[/quote]

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