Curious - How does your baby sleep?

Kennedy is 9 weeks old tomorrow and I am curious about others sleeping habits.  Mainly because I do not sleep and either need some hope or some others to join my new mommy pity party lol.  She is usually out around 7 or 8pm, up at 11:30 or midnight then every 2, very rarely 3 hours.  Wide awake around 5:30am.  She is breastfed exclusively and is only awake for 20 to 30 mins each time.

Please tell me this gets better!  Sometimes she is up every hour and a half!  I am ssssooooo sleepy lol.   Funny thing is she is sssoooo cute in the morning that I love to get up and love on her, but would also love a tad more sleep.

take naps! LOL.  My baby is 4 months now and while my husband and I go to bed at 10-11 and get up at 6 or 7 am, we're still waking up at least twice a night for feeding.  Babes sleeps in our room and when he wakes we just have to grab him from the crib and I nurse him laying down and usually I can fall back asleep while he eats.  That has been key for us.  We're waking up, but not for too long so it doesn't feel like I'm constantly awake.  Sometimes I don't remember getting up, even.  I would recommend the laying down nursing for sure.  Usually we all just keep sleeping in the bed together until morning.  There have been a few nights here and there when babes will sleep for 5-6 hours, but those are few and far between.  But I can see the light and it's getting better and easier to deal with.

You can do it!!  Good thing they're so cute, right?  The things we do for them!  (This after changing the biggest blowout I've seen in a while and smiling the whole time at my cutsey, poopy baby)

It gets better.  In the meantime, really do try to nap out whenever you get the chance.  I know it seems like during the day there are a thousand things you want to get done while your little girl sleeps but a lot of it can wait. 

My little guy is seven months old now.  He didn't start really sleeping for very long until three months.  During that time I remember being so tired that I would make weird dumb mistakes like putting the jam in the microwave instead of the fridge or just being forgetful.  My husband was tired too so it was a lot of effort not to be cranky with each other.  But sleep when you can and remember that it goes by really quickly.  I've been lucky and since my guy turned three months he has gone to bed at about 9-10pm and woke up between 6 and 8am ever since but I think that is the exception. 

My little one is 12 weeks and she was waking up 2 times a night at that age - bed at 7:30 or 8.  First feeding between 1 and 2 and second feeding between 4:00 and 5:30 and awake at 7ish.  Now we are down to one feeding a night around 3:30 and she gets up around 7.  Do you have a bedtime routine?  We do bath, bottle from daddy (of breastmilk), and bed.  I think it helps but we have been doing it from about 4 weeks old so we would get used to the routine and she has been doing well with sleeping at  night.  Naps are a totally different story.  Oops, there she is now!

Nope, just fussing, not awake yet.  One more thing.  Are you swaddling her?  That has been the only thing that keeps her asleep for more than 15  minutes.  We just switched to swaddleme sleep sack things because no blanket could contain her because she moves so much.  Now she has velcro to contend with and even though she can get a little hand up the top, she doesn't wake up cold with the blanket loose all around her.  and she looks so cute, like a little worm :)

My daughter would wake up every 2 hours overnight and breastfeed. This went on until she was 8 months old (I kicked her our of bed...). Then she started sleeping a bit more. When she started eating more solids, she slept more.

It gets better, especially when they start eating. Even a small bit of cereal at night (when baby's old enough) will help.

I coslept and demand fed both of my babies, and I loved it! they would sleep with me from about 10 til 8 no problem. At around three months I started transitioning to a crib beside the bed and then one in there own room. Around five months both my babes would sleep from 8 to 5 eat then snooze for another hour or two. by about six or seven months they both were sleeping by themselves through the night.  The only problem I ever had was that all of the other parents around me thought I was crazy and that I would have toddlers in my bed, which actually has happened to a friend of mine, I think the key is transitioning them out of your bed before they get too attached.

I would agree with cosleeping it's the only way to go.

Here are some great resources on how to co sleep safley and enjoy it. http://www.cosleeping.org/

Thanks everyone for their replies.  My mother in law and mother both think I am crazy for letting her sleep with me but I LOVE it!  He is in the military and till February he is in another state, then will deploy so I love it now.  Of course I will want just he and I in the bed when he returns so I have to be careful.  She sleeps with me when he is not here then sleeps in her crib beside the bed when he is here.  But I am so ready to sleep more, thankfully knowing it changes makes it tons better!

I know I'm a little late replying but one thing I didn't see anyone bring up was sharing a room with her. I cosleep with both of my kids when my husband is out so I totally understand where you're coming from but....

When we brought my son home from the hospital (after I had a c-section), he slept in a portable crib next to our bed. I couldn't understand why he was waking up so often during the night until I put him to sleep in his room and he made it 6 hours!

Babies are noisy sleepers. When he was in the room with us, we were at his side the minute he made a peep. He probably would have gone back to sleep except we got him out of bed! Moving him to his own room and keeping the monitor turned low allowed him to be the noisiest sleeper he wanted!

Also, I think my husband's snoring played a major role in the baby waking up when sleeping in our room.

Ugh, my daughter is almost six months and still gets up 3-4 times a night. :(

I put her down between 6:30-7:30 every night.  and she'll usually cry at about 9 and I'll give her her paci. and then she'll get up at about 11 to eat. Then 2 or 3, then 5 or 6 and up for good anywhere between 7-8.

I want to let her "cry-it-out" but my baby daddy thinks she's starving and that's why she gets up so often. She's in the 10th percentile for weight and he's worried that she would disappear if I took away the night-time feedings!

Julia went into her own room at 2 months.  She slept a full night starting at 6 weeks.  Now she is 14 months and sleeps from 8:30PM to 9AM ( on the weekends) or 8PM to 6:45AM (I wake her up).

She sometimes wakes up at night-  I usually let her stir and calm herself down.  If it gets to a certain volume; I'll go in there and soothe her.  She takes 1 nap a day now from 1PM-around 3/3:30PM.

From the beginning I let her CIO, when she was past 6 weeks.  I know this isn't a method that everyone supports; but for us it really worked.  I see herself getting worked up and frustrated with something; but she can get over it pretty quickly.  She's very calm and a happy baby. 

Sleep when they sleep.  When Julia was first born; I breastfed her during the day and formula at night.  After 3 weeks of age; I would feed her at 10PM; she'd wake up at 2AM for another bottle; then she would go back to sleep until around 7AM.

We made sure to get her used to noise when she went into her room-  so bathrooms; toliets flushing, phones ringing, tv-  anything EXCEPT the vacuumm won't wake her up. 

I also got her used to falling asleep for her naps in a very bright and sunny room and then at night in a very dark room (w/ small outlet light).

Wow. My kids have never, EVER slept past 7am. Most mornings they get up between 5 and 6am, no matter how late they went to bed. I'm super jealous of the 7, 8, 9am risers! I guess it's inherited--I'm a morning person, just not a 5-am-morning-person!

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