Piglet's Mama
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My Mummy friend and I, are always saying how fed up we are of hearing how babies of our age or younger are "sleeping through the night" already (there's been a baby boom in are area so we know loads of Mummy's). We get fed up cause we're jealous obviously. But when we dug a little bit deeper we found out that these Mummy's were classing "through the night" from the babies last feed/dream feed which is normally midnight/1.00am. But to me, this isn't sleeping through the night.
To me, sleeping through the night is putting baby down at 7-8pm and then baby sleeps uninterrupted, without a feed for 12 hours. I have been working my socks off to get Brooke down for bed between 7-8pm and I'm really lucky that for the last 2 weeks (apart from once) she is asleep before 8pm. BUT, she then either wakes herself for a feed around 11pm, or I wake her for a dream feed around 11pm, or if I don't wake her, she'll wake around 1am and 4am, but if I do wake her for a dream feed she'll sleep until 4.15am on the dot (you can set your clock by it). But I wouldn't class any of that as "sleeping through" as she is waking at least once. Hopefully if I carry on with my bedtime routine, in a few more weeks, when she's eating more etc she will eventually sleep through.
So what do you ladies think?
I'd just like to add that last night , Brooke DID SLEEP THROUGH! *Smug Mummy Moment* I think it's because she had her jabs yesterday so fully expect it to be a one off, but she slept 8.00pm - 6.30am
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To me, sleeping through the night is putting baby down at 7-8pm and then baby sleeps uninterrupted, without a feed for 12 hours. I have been working my socks off to get Brooke down for bed between 7-8pm and I'm really lucky that for the last 2 weeks (apart from once) she is asleep before 8pm. BUT, she then either wakes herself for a feed around 11pm, or I wake her for a dream feed around 11pm, or if I don't wake her, she'll wake around 1am and 4am, but if I do wake her for a dream feed she'll sleep until 4.15am on the dot (you can set your clock by it). But I wouldn't class any of that as "sleeping through" as she is waking at least once. Hopefully if I carry on with my bedtime routine, in a few more weeks, when she's eating more etc she will eventually sleep through.
So what do you ladies think?
I'd just like to add that last night , Brooke DID SLEEP THROUGH! *Smug Mummy Moment* I think it's because she had her jabs yesterday so fully expect it to be a one off, but she slept 8.00pm - 6.30am
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