My son has always been a good sleeper.STTN at 9weeks. He's 16 months now and sleeps 12-13hr a night. The 4 month wakeful never happened in my house. There is hope!
I mean there was the 4 month wakeful, teeth and some 18 month nonesense. But both my boys were good sleepers as babies and continued to be really good.
DS is almost 4 month (on Saturday) and still sleeps in the rnp. We did a few nights in the pnp but DS just turns himself 90 degrees and bangs his head into the side thus waking himself up. When we sleep train next month we plan to switch him to his pnp for good..
Since about 2.5 months he's pretty consistently STTN. I hope the 4 month wakefulness isn't too rough on DS's sleep but we'll see.
Yes and my crappy sleeper has remained a crappy sleeper.
DD (3) has always slept well. She went through a rough period when we moved her from her crib to a twin bed. But other than that she's always been easy to put to bed, sleeps well and doesn't get up too early.
DS (6) is finally getting better. But for most of his life he's been the worst sleeper.
DD was a decent nighttime sleeper after about 2 or 3 months and to this day regularly sleeps in until about 9 or 10 am if we don't have to wake her for something.
But her daytime sleep was always spotty and she stopped napping altogether at age 2.
Post by wanderlustmom on Aug 22, 2016 10:34:58 GMT -5
Both of ours kids have been good sleepers. No special snowflake or anything--slept through the night about 3 months until around a year 11-6 and 8-7 after that. Now they are nine and 11 and have always stayed in their beds
Shit hit the fan with DS around 4-5 mo and it didn't get better for a long time. Even with sleep training, he would still bawl for 15-20 minutes every night. Troubles continued into toddlerhood when he started climbing out of his crib, then wouldn't stay in his big boy bed.
DD sleeps like a dream and slept train in one night after 15 minutes of crying around 7 months. She's 3 and she goes to bed so easy with a smile on her face every night. Never once climbed out of her crib. I finally put her in a big girl bed a few weeks ago and she stays in it until we come get her.
Such a stark contrast between the two. It's crazy!
DD is 6.5 months and still sleeps around 10 hours straight like she did when she started doing it around 2 months. We've had a couple off nights here and there but I didn't really notice anything around 4 months. Her bedtime is around 730-8pm which means she wakes up at 6-630am and that's great during the week since she goes to daycare, but it sucks on the weekends :/ ...that's my only complaint. She's not a good daycare napper but usually does 2 solid 2-3 hour naps and one shorter nap on the weekends.
So far so good (knock on wood). Both were sleeping through the night at 3 months (minus a dream feed until 6 months) and sleep around 11 hours per night now. They sometimes struggle to fall asleep right away, but mostly just roll around in their cribs without crying, so we just let them.
Naps fell into place around that time, too. We switched to 2 naps per day at 6 months and they do great!
We keep it bright during the day and dark at night.
No! DD1 was a great sleep up until day light saving time in the fall. I think it was right after she was 2, it went down hill from there. For at least a year, she was waking up between 5-530 every single morning.
Post by starburst604 on Aug 22, 2016 10:59:29 GMT -5
So far so good - we never experienced the "wakeful" periods and once she quit her overnight bottle at 8 months she's maybe woken up MOTN 3 times? It's always been either a sickness coming on or a soaked through diaper that caused those. I pray, PRAY that she stays like this. She makes me terrified to ever have another because I don't know if I could handle a chronic crap sleeper.
Post by closertofine on Aug 22, 2016 11:04:24 GMT -5
Yes. Dd slept 12 hours on her 2 month birthday and has ever since (she's almost 5). Less than ten over night wakeup since, and almost always due to illness or stress (like when her dad moved out).
Ds started doing 12 hours right after the 4mw. He NEVER has woken up in the night since. He can be tough to settle in for the night, but never wakes up once he's out.
Eta. I lied. Dd did go through a brief 18month wakeful, but it was like one wake up a night and only for a couple weeks.
Yes, please, people who had unicorn newborn sleepers, tell me that the 4mw passed you by with no problems, because DD2 is 4 mo and she slept like crap for the first time in literally months last night.
(and Bernadine , my 4 mo old is still in the RNP in our room. She can get used to sleeping flat later, I don't want to mess with her good sleep!)
I have a great sleeper. Not to say there's never a been a bad night, but a really good sleeper. The 4mw for him was no naps - he was awake alley.long. It was pretty miserable for me, but if you're in daycare, no prob ;-) and it's way better than not sleeping at night!
DS STTN 12 hours at 7 weeks and reliably at 9 weeks. He has always been a good sleeper. His 4 month wakeful was 2 weeks of waking 1 time per a night. He went through some difficulty with needing to be rocked to sleep STANDING UP only at 7 months. So that is when I did sleep training. To get him to go to sleep. He had short sleep regressions at 6 & 9 months. But has been an awesome sleeper ever since.
At 4.5 he now is having nightmares again. I got him a "Bad Dreams AWAY Spray" Which is glitter and water in a spray bottle. If he has a bad dream he sprays it one time and it calms him down and he goes right back to sleep.
DD has always been an excellent nighttime sleeper. She started STTN around 3 months and never went through a wakeful period. She's almost 6 and nights have always been super easy with her. In bed by 7:30 and 11 hours of sleep.
Now naps? No. She gave those up early and they were a challenge when she did nap. I will take that trade off tho
DD was STTN by 8 weeks. We had a rough period around 5-6 months that lasted a month or two but then I think she got back to normal. Now, at age 4, she wakes me up during the night about 50% of the time to fix her fucking blanket.
Post by pinkdutchtulips on Aug 22, 2016 12:06:39 GMT -5
She was great from 7wks to 18months. From 18 months to 2 yrs it was crap then at 2 it corrected itself. It went to crap again at 4 when xh and I split and she's been in my bed since :/
Patiently trying to get her into her own bed !! #sleepanxietysux