Asa went to bed at 7pm.
I went to bed at 11:58pm.
Asa woke up at 12:06am.
We both fell asleep at 1am.
Asa woke up at 3:15am.
I fed him at 3:45am.
He fell asleep at 4am. So did I.
Asa woke up at 6am.
And reluctantly I did, too.
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This eight months of no sleep is draining me! Lydia slept 12 hours a night when she was about 3 months old. I am just at a loss as to what to do for Asa.
When did your kids sleep through the night? If you say 3 years old or something, I may delete you…if I can get out of the fetal position I’ll likely crawl into.
My daughter started sleeping through the night at 10 weeks old, from about 10pm to 6am. Because of that, I’m kinda worried that our baby boy we’ll have on Wednesday will be one who NEVER sleeps.
you can delete me if you want. I wouldn’t blame you. My oldest was an aweseom sleeper…She went to bed early and got up early but slept all night in her own crib from about 6 months on.
Now my youngest. She will be 4 in August she has never and I mean never slept through the night. THat said – she is having her tonisl and adenoids removed next week apparently she has serious airway obstruction – Head of Ped. ENT at Children’s Hospital says it is the worst he has ever seen. So two weeks from now she might actually sleep through the night.
I can’t spell. sorry.
Ugh. No sleep is not pleasant!
Andrew started sleeping through the night at 12 weeks. Will started at 11 weeks (in Disney World, no less). You may delete me for this: Will never – from birth – got up more than once a night. I like to think it was God’s gift to me since I was advanced maternal age (36). ;0)
i am not even going to go there about lance, but lily has has good weeks and not good weeks. “they say” that boys don’t sleep as well as girls, it holds true for us, even though I usually prove the “theys” wrong. I hope you get some rest soon.
My oldest daughter didn’t sleep through the night until she was about 14 months old. Her pattern was to wake up about 2:30AM and want to play. Very rarely did she ever go back to sleep before 4:00AM. My youngest daughter slept through the night the day she was born and continued to do so as long as we were in the hospital. Our first day/night at home I thought I was living the ultimate dream. She would sleep for 3-4 hours, wake for feeding and in less than 20 minutes she was sleeping again. This continued until about 4 months when those 20 minutes turned into 45 minutes to an hour. By nine months she was only sleeping about 2 hours in a stretch and staying away for well over an hour. Nap time was totally lost by this time. By the time she was a year old it seemed that she NEVER slept and she is much that way today … 20 years later. It’s like her body doesn’t require sleep.
My children are both grown but they both have one child of their own AND they both still live with me … which in essence means I get the joys of living with babies all over again. Only problem now is that I’m no where near as young as I used to be and these nights of no sleep are starting to catch up. Almost 14 weeks with Lil Bit and he has yet to sleep through the night. When he is awake he cries … ALL THE TIME! Lil Man slept through the night at about six weeks but I attribute that to him sleeping with me … in MY bed. I moved him out of my bed when he was six months old and he didn’t sleep through the night again until he was about 18 months old.
Ouch. That doesn’t sound like a fun night.
Hmmm… wonder if it’s a boy thing??
My first, Savannah, slept thru the night (11hrs) at eight weeks old and never woke in the night again, not once.
My second, Sawyer, didn’t even attempt to sleep thru until he was over 16 weeks and for the next year you never knew night to night if we would be dealing with him somewhere between 1-4am or not. He would sleep solid for a couple of nights in a row but then decide he needed to say hi at 3 am for a few nights. It was so frustrating as by a few nights here and there, you never knew what you were going to get and you might get a whole week of good sleep and then suddenly he’d decide he’d check out the nightlife again for a few nights. It’s hard to get up when you’ve had the tease of a few good nights of sleep! I didn’t know what to do. We had not been feeding him at night wakings since he was four or five months… he wasn’t hungry, he just was a never real consistently solid sleeper.
He eventually figured it out… at close to a year-and-a-half! Ugh!
Anyway, I feel for ya and I hope Asa figures it out sooner and easier for you!!
My first (girl) was sleeping 12 hrs at 6 weeks old. My second (a boy) didn’t sleep through the night until 9 months!! My third (a girl 7.5 months now) started sleeping 12 hrs at about 3.5 months. I think there really is something to the whole boy girl thing.
My 14 month old still isn’t really consistent with her sleep. The first 6 months were horrible with her being up every 2 hours. Now at 14 months we have some nights of 12 hours of sleep and other nights where she will still wake up at least once. Thankfully now when she does wake up you can go lay her back down and she will go right back to sleep. We tried everything with her and I think they really just do it at their own time. There is no magic solution to getting a baby to STTN, I think it just will happen.
Sorry you are going through this, but I am sure my Mom (Gayle Rogers) will post and let you know soon that Erin didn’t STTN until she was 5. Yes, 5.
Emily slept through the night, or at least 5-6 hr stretches by 6 wks old. Olivia… not until after she was a year old. And even now, at 3 1/2 yrs old, she will still wake up sometimes. Thankfully all it takes is me just patting her back or she’ll need to go potty or get a drink. And most of the time she does this BEFORE I go to bed. But as an infant, to get her to actually sleep through the night, her pediatrician told me to cut out the feedings through the night. If she was eating fine all day and if she had a bottle before bed, she was getting plenty of nutrition and she didn’t need that feeding through the night. I did it a little at a time, cutting out an ounce, until she was down to like only 2 ozs, then I just stopped it all together. When she woke up, I patted her back, to get her back to sleep. She definitely wasn’t easy like Emily! I hope you find something that works for Asa & you get some sleep soon!
oh, so sorry! i’ve been there!!
my guy didn’t start sleeping through the night until he was 10 months, and we had to let him cry it out for weeks… it was awful. sorry i don’t have better advise!!
Go ahead and hit the delete button now because Erin was 5 years old before she made it through the night. The rest of my girls were sleepers.
Yikes!! I know how that is. Yuck! My daughter slept from 9pm to 5am at 9wks. So when my son was born and he didn’t do that, I was tired and perplexed.
He would be up from 2am to 6am straight! 1st he was hungry, then he would poop or be very wet, then hicups, then wants to play, then hungry, he eats too much and throws it up, now we start the process all over again. this went on for months!
At his 3 month checkup Dr. said he was big enough to make it through the night with out eating, so we could start the crying it out stuff. That was hard too. It took 3 months of that before he started to get the idea. So it was about 6 months when he slept through the night. While he was stubborn he did learn and we finally got the needed rest.
Letting your kids cry it out for 20 minute stretches before you go back in to give them a gentle rub may not be your thing. But it did work for us. I also got my parents to come help watch my 3 year old during the day for a few days so I could catch up on some sleep.
Good luck!
Gotta agree with the above comment from Debbie. Both my boy and girl had to go through some Cry it out (CIO). It is never easy but once you’ve decided all there basic needs have been met and they just want you, it usually benefits everyone to teach them to sleep a consolidated night. I recommend the Baby Wise books by Ezzo and Bucknam. If done in a thoughtful precise way and not recklessly or inconsistently these methods work. My daughter took to it quick and has slept thru the night since 5 months, my son was off/on but by 10 months consistently slept thru the night. Now with my son at 15 months and my daughter at 2 1/2 I can always can count on a good night sleep unless they are sick. Now if they wake it is almost always an indication of illness which allows me to know there needs more precisely.
Hope this helps b/c in my book: A well-rested momma = a happy momma = a happy home 🙂
I know exactly how you feel. All 3 of my boys were sleeping through the night by at least 6 months. My little girl is almost 13months and still a no go. She wakes up usually twice every night. I recently spoke to a woman whose daughters didn’t sleep through the night till ages 3 & 4. Lord. Help. Me.
Jake was 18 months and Bailey was 8 weeks old. At the age he’s at (plus his fluffy size) there is no reason he still needs to eat at night- cut his night feedings and that may just solve your problem!
I’ve been exactly where you are, so just hang in there. It took both of mine a while to sleep through the night consistently (a couple years…), but they’ll get there. Maybe it’s the new house, sitting up, and other new stuff in his life that’s making him wake up. Just nap when you can!
I have three kids and I would say 9 months is pretty much when it kicked in for all of them. I was a big believer in the book, “Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child”. The author talks about how sleep creates more good sleep. I always made sure they got their naps and put the kids to bed at 6:30 p.m.! Yes, crazy, I know… But he says if your kids aren’t sleeping, they need to go to bed earlier, rather than later. It worked for me!
My 14 week old started sleeping 10 hours a night at 10-11 weeks. I’m nursing him…but he is a scheduled eater….6 times during the day..if he wakes up in the middle of the night we pop the pacifier. My feeling is that if the baby can go back to sleep for 4 more hours….he obviously wasn’t hungry! I’m just hoping he doesn’t have growth spurt and decide to start night eating.
Wyatt started officially sleeping through the night at 9 months. It was the very first night we spent in our new house and he was in his crib, in his own room. I don’t know what made the difference (maybe he was just really tired after 9 months of waking me up all night?) but it was magical.
He’ll get there soon, hang in there!
It really depends on the kid. Most of mine did not sleep through the night, but by that I mean that they would wake up and come into my bed and sleep. I wasn’t up with them.
But my last one…….. I thought we were finally there, but the nightmare has started all over again. He’s 2 1/2.
I didnt sleep until i was 4! Braxton is doign about 8 hours right now, and Ashlynn is 10-12!
Neither of mine are sleeping through the night right now. Bug is a million times better than Wog since she sleeps through the night about 60% of the time. I should add I am sure this is of our own making in that we are a breeding ground for bad sleep habits. (So don’t delete me!)