My baby is 4mnths and sleeps for about 8 hrs at a time at night (7pm-3am) then wakes for a bottle. Her brother was sleeping through the night by this time, but he wasn't as big an eater as she is (he ate about 24oz vs the 32oz she eats). And I can't remember how long it was he slept, but I know he went to bed latter. Like around 9pm. She can't make it that long. In fact we have a hard time getting her to 7. I want to say that he was sleeping about 12 hrs at a time by this age. How long did your baby sleep at this age? How long did they sleep when they started sleeping through the night? Oh and yes I know every baby is different, I was just trying to think about the difference in their bedtimes and maybe that might effect my memory about how my oldest was "sleeping through the night."
ETA: I wanted to add after her 3am feeding she goes straight back to sleep on her own and gets up around 7am but entertains herself till 7:30
well 8hrs at a time is a lot for a 4 month old. Mine were still doing every 2-4 hrs.
Technically "sleeping through the night" for a baby is 6 hrs at a time , not from the time you go to bed to the time you get up. Congrats you have a baby that sleeps through the night early.
at 3 months, we would put him to bed at 7, he would wake to feed at midnight and at 4 am, and again at 8:30/9ish.
at 4 months we would put him to bed at 7 pm. Wake him to feed him at 11 when we went to bed, and he would sleep till 6:30.
by 5 months, he would sleep from 8-6:30.
We used ferber, it worked for us.
sounds like your litle one is well on her way.
Yep like Beth said. 6 hours is considered sleeping through the night. 8 is good. We don't sleep train, and breasted on demand at that age so mine were up more.
They slept for 12 hrs (7pm-7am), but i am pretty sure they were more like 7 months. Now the teens are back to sleeping 12 hrs....lol!
5 kids and FINALLY I have a 4 month old who sleeps. it's 9pm, he just went down, we will get 6-8 hours before he wakes back up.
This is sheer bliss, my 18 month old was over a year before we got a 12 hour stretch and he still gets up a couple nights a week.
For us, it was 6-7 hours. That was around 8 months old, if I remember correctly. We did a later bedtime too. It got better when we did a shorter second nap and an earlier bedtime.
3-4 months our son woke at 3 am for a feeding.
Then we found out (observation, books and pediatrician) that he doesn't need a 3am bottle. So we went with sleep training. We used the Babywise series, but Ferber is also good.
Been sleeping 7p to 7a ever since. Well - we just adjusted bedtime a few weeks ago as he's now in the middle of switching to one nap a day.
I have a 4 month old also and right now he is sleeping from about 8:30 until about 6. I think your baby's schedule sounds pretty good though. My son was doing that too until a few weeks ago... then he started waking later and later for that feeding and now he almost always goes until 6. When she wakes for that 3am feeding, is she crying hard or just fussing? Maybe try to stretch out how long you take to respond and see if she goes back to sleep on her own. My son however was not sleeping through the night until after 6 months old.... not sure if it was personality or that I was a first timer and was responding too quickly to every whimper he made, or if it was just dumb luck that this time around I got a good sleeper. I am totally shocked to hear stories of 1 week old babies sleeping 12 hours... not sure if that is even healthy for them when they are so young... I would have freaked out and woke them up for a feeding after 6 hours!
A million women would be celebrating in bars all over the country by 11:30 am today if their four month old slept eight hours in one stretch-I know it would be better were the stretch to fall between 9 and 5-and it will, probably in a month go to 12 hours-good luck! It is important to put the baby down while they're still awake so they learn to get themselves to sleep and to get themselves back to sleep if they wake up during the night. If you let her cry at three A.M. would she go back to sleep for a few more hours? Just a thought.
DS was sleeping 12 hours straight at 4mos.
DD was only sleeping about 6. Mostly, that's because I continued to coddle her night feedings when she didn't need them anymore.
I consider "sleeping through the night" as in "I don't have to wake up for a child". So for me, both kids were reliably there - with sleep training - by 6 mos.
Both of my girls, now 8 and 5, started sleeping soundly from 8pm to 8am, one at age 3 weeks, and one at age 6 weeks. I kept them on a strict schedule from birth, so I don't know if that was what did it, or if they were just destined to be good sleepers. They slept 12 hours at night clean through their toddler years, and my 5-year-old still sleeps 10 hours at night and naps during the day.
I was blessed with extremely good sleepers but big babies tend to sleep longer (they were both 11 lbs at birth). My daughter slept 12 hours straight thru the night from the first night she came home from the hospital. My son took about a week, after we figured out he needed a pacifier, and he slept 12 hours also. They are now 12 and 9 and have never given me a problem going to bed on their own and they are still great sleepers!
People define sleeping through the night differently - that's why some people swear their child slept through the night at 3 weeks old ;-) I define it as basically 12 hours - going to bed before me and waking up after me. No wake ups in between. My oldest was about 18 months. My 2nd was 6 months. My 3rd was 4 months and my 4th was 2 months.
