babies that sleep through the night

i read in another post how so many of your new babies sleep from 8-8 or so.  do they wake up at all to eat?  are they breastfed or bottle fed?  do they take a binky or suck their thumb?

addison was doing better then started waking more often and its going on a few months now.  she uses me as her pacifier and seems to have not a bit of a reason to stop haha.  

if you had a baby that did this at what age did they start to sooth themselves or not need to wake and nurse as often?

[Kim1989]

ok....dommy sleeps from about 8 pm - 7am waks up for a 5 min snack, then goes back to bed till around 10am.

he has a routine my mom got him into. he has his red light on, you hold him in the rocking chair, give him a bottle, with his lullaby music on. after about 15 mins he will fall asleep. thats pretty much about it

he doesn like binkies, he doesnt suck his thump, he chew on it sometimes but thats about it.

i know hes up by hearing him on the monitor talking to himself or just making noise. i open his door to find him feet in the air. chewing on his hands looking at the mobile, stuffed animals on the shelf or his monkey bumper (told they arnt supposed to have one now so i have to take it out but thats what he usually looks at)

hes almost 5 months and hes been doing that since about 3 months. and hes mostly breast fed. wether he takes his nighttime bottle with formula or breastmilk, he stays asleep

[Tanker Chic]

Jacob started sleeping through the night in the 11th week. It started off with 5 then 7 to 8 hours a night.. now at 5.5 months... he usually goes down bewteen 7:30 and 8:30.. during the week I get him up at 6:30 to eat and go to daycare.. on weekends when I dont have to get him up, he will sleep until about 8:30 or sometimes a little longer.  

Sometimes he will start fussing in the early morning hours 5 to 6 a,m.  Usually if I put the paci in his mouth, he is good for another couple of hours.  

Jacob has been on formula since 10wks.  

[kjbutcher]

At about 4 months AJ started soothing himself to sleep, but would wake up once for a bottle and several times for the pacifier.  Since 7 months about once a week he will wake up for a snack in the middle of the night.  I hand him a bottle (cup now) and stand in the dark until it falls out of his hands and he is sound asleep.  I dont let him know I am there, but I stay to make sure he doesnt choke.  At 7 months he decided he didnt like his binki anymore and wouldnt take it.  That is really when I could put him in the crib and he would fall asleep on his own and wake up and play in the morning before he cried for me.  He is not a thumb sucker.  My doctor actually told me that after 6 months if they fall asleep with a pacifier that they could wake up more often because if they wake just a bit and it isnt in their mouth they will cry for you to put it back in.  It proved true for us.  

[babyscience]

Ethan sleeps from 8pm to about 5-6:30am, feeds then back to sleep until 7-7:30am.  He is formula fed, so I dont know how others get in a full 12 hours.  My boy gets hungry!

[Trialanderror]

Wow, I was happy when my boy slept 6 hours in a row at about 8 months...That was from 8pm until 2am. He only stopped waking up at 2am after 11 months which was also when he weaned himself from nursing. I did not use nursing to help him fall asleep but probably inadvertently trained him to expect a night feeding. Even now, over five years later, his main sleep cycle ends around 2am and if he senses I am working in the other room, he sometimes mumbles: I`m hungry! Only to be in another deep sleep seconds after. But he never woke up later than about 5am as an infant and toddler,  so an 8-hour or even 12-hour stretch is unbeknownst to us :) I guess infants who sleep that well and long through the night will take no naps during the day, or do they.

[mary345]

my daughter is 1 month old she is breastfed and she started to sleep through the night at 2 weeks she does use a binkie but only to help her fall asleep then it falls out of her mouth and she could really care less. we also swaddle her in those kidopatamus things because that is the only way she will sleep through the night when we used a reg blanket it would come on done and she would wake up so those things are a real life saver. also she takes really good naps during the day. so far all of my children slept good at night and by a month old they were sleeping through the night this is my last baby though three is enough for me and my hubby has two from a previous marriage so we have five all together.

[pertykitty]

so you all suck!! jk.  i guess its just my addy.  my son was the best sleeper  so i guess i got to have one of each lol.  she used to take a binky but decided she hated them one day lol     have i trained her to take a boob when she fusses at night?  i just figured she needed it.  i dont really mind so much that i cant stand it, im just curious as to when she will sleep longer.  she naps during the day but reallly this kid just doesnt seem to sleep enough!!

[girl0319]

Ayla's four months and she started sleeping threw the night at about 2 months. We have a little nighttime routine. I read her a book and give her a bath around 8 and then a bottle at nine and shes sleeping between 9 and 10 and wakes up around 7 or 8am. Latley shes been waking up alot during the night though. She wants to be by mommy lol.

[40smama]

Noah's just now sleeping through the night - about 9:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. although we had a little setback last night - he went to bed at 2:00 a.m. and got up again at 5:30 a.m. to eat and play - :-)).

He's formula fed.  My other babies also started sleeping through the night around this age and they were all breastfed.

[meiram]

Don't feel bad...My Aliana is breastfed and also given expressed milk when I am at work and she is just over 6 months. Anyway she has begun waking every three hours to eat.  I am pretty sure that she is indeed hungry when she wakes b/c she goes at it like a wild woman.  Luckily, she goes right back to bed.  

We have been through every sleeping pattern with her, hopefully this is just a phase also.  When she was little (she's such a big girl now)  she slept through the night (8 hours or more) pretty often.  I think Aliana's issue is not eating enough during the day.  She takes about 3 - 4 ounces four times a day.  We can't get her to eat more than that, so I guess I'm okay with her making up for it at night.  What choice do I have, lol
We started solids a couple of weeks ago, but she doesn't eat very much of those either.  Too much to do and see and experience...

She never has taken a binky and she can soothe herself to sleep in her crib (most of the time).  

Anyway, you are not alone :)

[BabyHardiman]

It could be this way because you co-sleep.  Ava has always slept in her crib at nights.  She can sleep stratight throuhg and she is breastfed.  BUT, babies do go through growth spirts, right?  Maybe that's what your Addy is going through.

I have found that Ava will take a paci at night better if I lay her flat on her back and cuddle her.  Sometimes she gets a little over stimulated during the day and she has difficulties calming down, so I just lay beside her, put her binky in her mouth and let her calm down enough to fall asleep, however, I do not let her fall asleep before I put her in her crib. They say that's the worst thing to do is allow the baby to fall asleep, then put them in there own bed.  Something about allowing them to self soothing and falling asleep on their own??  But there has been more than one occasion that I have held her until she falls asleep.. because that is my right as a mommy to hold my sleeping baby.  :)

[becca_3456]

DD started to sleep long stretches when I moved her from my room to her own room. I had to let her CIO for 3 nights, and for the first week she would still wake up 1 time during the night and I would go and nurse her. Then I decided to let her fuss for a few minutes to see if she would go back to sleep. After about 1 1/2 weeks she no longer woke up to eat and could go 10-11 hours during the night. This was when she was about 8 1/2 to 9 months old. Before I did this she was waking up 4 times or more during the night which was driving me CRAZY. She is a thumb sucker so if she wakes up now she just ***** her thumb and goes right back to bed. She is a much happier baby now that she is getting her sleep and in the morning when she wakes up she just talks to herself in her crib until I go and get her. I dont feel like a zombie now that she is sleeping so well, before I would snap at DH and be very cranky all day.  Plus there is no struggle to get her to sleep. She knows when I say night night that is time for bed and never fusses to go down for the night. I used to have to rock her for an hour just to get her to go to sleep when she was in our room. I NEVER would have thought that CIO would work and I HATED to do it but it was worth it to us.

[pertykitty]

she has co slept with me/us but recently has been moved to her crib, and will go to sleep without problems.  im sure its a phase and she will sleep again, not sure i will lol dh is SNORING and i cant stand it!!!!!