Routine

[Lulu90]

I'm starting to think about getting Luca into a solid routine now that he's 6 weeks old. I've had my mum in my ear all week "you and your brother were sleeping through the night from 6 weeks". By no means is Luca a handful, I mean, he barely cries, but a full night sleep would be lovely haha.

If we're at home doing nothing, he's bang on the money with waking for his 5oz every 3 hours. If we're out doing things (especially if he's in his pram) he can go up to 6 hours with no bottle. There is literally no waking him up. Undressing him, doesn't work, tickling his feet, doesn't work, start a riot in the street, he would sleep through it. Any ideas?

He has a bath, bottle and is in bed by 9 every night. Then he will have a bottle at 1am, 5am and then 8am he's up and awake til 11ish. I'm not so much obsessing over the whole sleeping through the night thing, I just wonder if I should be doing something different? Someone told me he doesn't drink enough milk to be able to go all night, is that true? xx

 

[MrsS143]

If hes hungry hes hungry

You could try giving him a bigger bottle though at bed time to see if it tides him over for longer?

 

[Baby2sky]

With my daughter, i found she would drink all of her milk through the day, from 8am till 8pm then slept through the night so I do think that having their milk through the day meant she was fine to sleep in the night. (She was 5 weeks old) .However she always woke in the day time for bottles. Do you find that he sleeps longer at night after you've been in all day and he feeds every 3 hours or does it not make a difference?

 

[Lulu90]

No, that makes no difference whatsoever. I've only just managed to get him on a 5oz bottle, so I have no chance of giving him a bigger bottle before bed xx

 

[Baby2sky]

In that case I would say you're doing everything right for him by following his cues x

 

[Lulu90]

Aw thank you hun. I guess I'll just have to wait a little longer for a full night sleep haha xx

 

[MrsS143]

All babies are different
Some sleep from day dot
Others still get up multiple times every night even til theyre 3 lol

 

[Lucyboo]

Have you thought about now he is on the 5oz feeds trying to drag him out to 4 hour feeds, also we wake our LG about 10.30 for a dream feed, she just will not wake properly even though she goes off about 7.30-8pm. She now goes through until around 6am. Have you thought about giving a dummy for the 1am wake up he might self settle with one. He will suddenly sleep through longer when he is ready but defo having a later feed can help I think as I was feeding our LG at 8pm and she was sleeping until 4, now we have dragged that later feed out and if she stirs in the night the dummy sends her back to sleep.

 

[H16]

Sounds like he is sleeping really well already to be fair. My daughter slept through from around 10pm to 4am(ish) when she was around 2 months old but she was a bugger for napping in day and would only have 15 min power naps every 2 hours so figured that was why lol x

 

[Lulu90]

Lucyboo, the dummy settles him for all of 5 minutes til he loses it haha. The only time he's keen on his dummy is when he's asleep on my chest, that's when he's most content. He would sleep on my chest all night if I let him. I'll try and drag the feeds out a little longer. I could always take him out for a walk in the pram just before he'd usually wake for a bottle, that way I know he'll sleep a little longer. Thanks for the tips ladies xx

 

[kumber]

Sounds like he's doing fab with his sleep, I think 6 weeks is still fairly young to sleep through so your mum was a lucky lady! I think if he's snoozing for long periods between bottles when you're out then leave him to it - babies, and even right up to toddlers, are great at knowing when they want their tummies filling again so just do what you're doing with following his cues and enjoy the peace while you have it

 

[littlemonkey]

Sleeping through has nothing to do with routines. My boys never had strict routines and they both slept through from three months. I thought that was good! Both of mine were still up at least once in the night at six weeks.

I slept through from when I was a week old according to my parents.

It's just one of those things like walking and talking that all babies do at different times and I don't think there's much you can do to change that. I know I've done absolutely nothing to encourage my two, they've just done it of their own accord.

 

[Colleen1988]

Lulu Isaac does the exact same thing as your little one... I'm just following his cues as he's only 3 and half week old! it's hard to decide what to do as there is so much conflicting advice! xxx

 

[Lulu90]

You're right Colleen, it is difficult. Sounds like I'm doing everything right and he will sleep through when he wants xx

 

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I'd have loved DD to sleep through at 6 weeks...she was about 10 months! As others have said it seems you are responding perfectly to his cues now and the bedtime routine sounds great too. I'd keep going as you are for now, sleeping through will happen when it happens x

 

[Colleen1988]

We do the bedroom routine as well but it's at different times everyday as sometimes he might be napping at 7pm ish... He's so unpredictable in the day but he usually wakes at same times in the night! We do the whole day time and nighttime thing so in the day when he's awake I try and play with him, do tummy time etc and at night we keep the room dim and barely speak to him! It seems to work because in the night he wakes for a feed and then goes back to sleep xxx

 

[kitten2014]

I'll second this as was also obsessed with trying to work out how to wean off night feeds and then she just did it herself...8 days on and still going 12-13hrs between feeds, 5-6 bottles during the day sees her through...Ive also just made the transition to sleeping in the other room with OH and had 4hrs solid in one hit! Took me ages to sleep at first though as havent been in separate room from her since birth...

 

[russellmuscle]

We commenced a bed routine at 5-6 weeks. Wasnt a big routine as such. Basically 7pm he got his bath, we did some massage en a bed bottle in complete darkness cuddled into my fluffy housecoat then he would conk and id slip him into bed and by 7 weeks he was doing 8pm-7.30 then up for a feed and back until 9am. It was wonderful.

At nearly 3 he still just jas to have a mink blanket touch his face and hes out lol.

Go with whats comfy for you and baby.

Xxx

 

[Lulu90]

Thank you for all your reassuring stories ladies. I don't doubt he'll be sleeping through soon, positive thoughts xx