When did your babies sleep longer than 3-4 hours?

Sophie is 5 weeks old tomorrow and her sleeping at night is still so bad. Last night she looked and sounded so overtired around 9 pm so I put her into bed, rocked her,etc.... she screamed and did not want to be put down. She ate around 11 pm, and fell asleep in our bed unrtil about 1 am. I moved her into the bassinet and she woke up at 2 am. I soothed her to sleep and again, she woke up at 3 am to eat (she eats about every 3 1/2-4 hours). She finally went back to sleep around 4 am, and was up at 5:30 am, and just fell back to sleep around 10:15 am!

She sleeps fine during the day, especially when we're out in the car. But at night, she doesn't sleep for longer than 2 hours (a few times we've gotten 3 - 31/2 hours!)

When will it change? Am I doing something wrong? We are both exhausted!

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Jacob started sleeping 7 hrs straight at 8 weeks old. Before that, it was a total nightmare. Hang in there...

ETA: 7 hrs was from 9pm-4am..

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Ella got better at 6 weeks - sleeping 6-8 hour stretches. You're almost there!

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Kaylee started sleeping 6-7 hours around 7 weeks, but I'm giving full credit to the miracle blanket!

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I have a countdown till 6 weeks but i dont want to get my hopes up. thanks girls!!

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6 weeks old she started going 6-7 hours.

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By 3 months, both my kiddies were going anywhere from 8 hours to 12 hours. All of a sudden, they get the hang of sleeping. It will happen, hang in there.

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It took Emily a bit longer as well - around 6-7 wks she started with longer stretches....until then, she was up about as often as your little girl Hang in there!

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Isabella started sleeping 7 hrs at 4 weeks. I know every baby is different though.

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at 6 weeks we started getting 7 hour stretches then it got even better at 3 mos.

ETA I'm sure you're not doing anything wrong. keep in mind that the books say they cannot distinguish day from night until around the 6 week mark so if she's sleeping good during the day try to catch up then until she begins to distinguish.

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Just wanted to give you

We are right there with you also - ours is almost 4 weeks and we are having the same night time fun!!

Let's hope it comes soon for the both of us!!

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Thanks girls!!

And pickle - I hope it improves for you.

I am just so exhausted and no matter what I do- no matter how much I try to keep her up during the day, make it"nighttime" at night bymaking it dark and quiet- nothing works!

I am patiently waiting for this 6 week mark but it can't come soon enough! And I know that's terrible to say because I don't want to wish away her newbornness but it's just SO HARD!

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My DD is now amost 11 weeks and still is not sleeping through the night

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my ds is almost six months and still is not sleeping through the night

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DS is 8 weeks and still waking every 3-4 hours...

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Luca is will be one month tomorrow and he sleeps for 2-3 hours. Every once in a while I'll get lucky and get 3.5-4 hours- but that's rare.

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DD was every 2 1/2 hours for what seemed the longest time. I believe it was around 5-6 weeks she suddenly started sleeping a bit longer....4-5 hours maybe? I know it was Super Bowl Sunday the first night she did it.

Then when we went away with her when she was 3 months old she started stretching her 4/4:30am feeding to 6/6:30am and then she'd doze back off for a few more hours.

It is completely a developmental thing. The do it when they are ready. Some do it sooner than others. Hang in there with the sleep deprivation.

As for being overtired.....when they become OVERLY over tired, it's so hard for them to finally FALL asleep and stay asleep.

Try laying her down to sleep every 2 hours or so.....the book Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child saved us!!! At almost 11 months old, she still goes down every 2- 2 1/2 hours (sometimes 3 hours) for a nap.

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Posted by nymommy2be

my ds is almost six months and still is not sleeping through the night

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8 weeks for spencer
although all kids are different, my first child was almost 2 before he slept thru the night. wait a minute , make that 3!!!!

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Charlie is 9 weeks and the most we get is 5 hours. It's

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One year

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Julia was 2 months when she started sleeping through the night.

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Every baby is different but Liam was about 12 weeks old before he was really sleeping more than 3 or 4 hours at a time at night.

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thanks for the answers. although even during the day (unless shes in the car) she wont sleep for a long time - could she be overtired? she seems to fight sleep.

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One of our DD slept 6 hours last night (4 weeks) - I am sure it was just a fluke, good to hear these stories that there is an end in sight for DDs to sleep through the night!