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I have a 7 mo. old who I am still nursing (in addition to feeding her
solids). She goes to bed around 7 pm, wakes up around 3 am then wakes for good around 6:30 am. When she awakes at 3 she wants to nurse. I cannot get her to go back to sleep unless I do this. Is this pattern normal for a 7 mo. old? I figured 8 hrs (7-3) is a long to go without eating. Am I wrong? |
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"shell8279" wrote in message ups.com... I have a 7 mo. old who I am still nursing (in addition to feeding her solids). She goes to bed around 7 pm, wakes up around 3 am then wakes for good around 6:30 am. When she awakes at 3 she wants to nurse. I cannot get her to go back to sleep unless I do this. Is this pattern normal for a 7 mo. old? I figured 8 hrs (7-3) is a long to go without eating. Am I wrong? My DD2 is 8 months old. She normally goes to bed around 9pm, wakes to feed normally around 630-7am and falls asleep until about 830am. Sounds right on track to me. DD2 basically has the same waking/eating/sleeping as yours does, just slightly different times. Works out to be about the same anyways, regardless of bed time, waking time in the AM and waking up for the day. |
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On Jun 28, 8:08?am, shell8279 wrote:
I have a 7 mo. old who I am still nursing (in addition to feeding her solids). She goes to bed around 7 pm, wakes up around 3 am then wakes for good around 6:30 am. When she awakes at 3 she wants to nurse. I cannot get her to go back to sleep unless I do this. Is this pattern normal for a 7 mo. old? I figured 8 hrs (7-3) is a long to go without eating. Am I wrong? It is a normal pattern for many babies. Not all babies follow the same schedule though. They pretty much set their own schedule for you to follow until they are old enough for you to start manipulating/ tweaking it here and there. My newborn consistently went 5 hours between nursing sessions straight from the getgo. It took my body a bit to adjust to it, but my baby also slept 10 hours a night early on, somewhere around 6 months. If baby wakes and is hungry, most definitely feed her. |
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shell8279 wrote:
I have a 7 mo. old who I am still nursing (in addition to feeding her solids). She goes to bed around 7 pm, wakes up around 3 am then wakes for good around 6:30 am. When she awakes at 3 she wants to nurse. I cannot get her to go back to sleep unless I do this. Is this pattern normal for a 7 mo. old? I figured 8 hrs (7-3) is a long to go without eating. Am I wrong? She sounds very normal. 8 hours is a good chunk of sleep. -- Anita -- |
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On Jun 28, 6:08 am, shell8279 wrote:
I have a 7 mo. old who I am still nursing (in addition to feeding her solids). She goes to bed around 7 pm, wakes up around 3 am then wakes for good around 6:30 am. When she awakes at 3 she wants to nurse. I cannot get her to go back to sleep unless I do this. Is this pattern normal for a 7 mo. old? I figured 8 hrs (7-3) is a long to go without eating. Am I wrong? Put her to bed later. |
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shell8279 wrote:
I have a 7 mo. old who I am still nursing (in addition to feeding her solids). She goes to bed around 7 pm, wakes up around 3 am then wakes for good around 6:30 am. When she awakes at 3 she wants to nurse. I cannot get her to go back to sleep unless I do this. Is this pattern normal for a 7 mo. old? I figured 8 hrs (7-3) is a long to go without eating. Am I wrong? My DD is 8 and 1/2 months old. She goes to bed around 7 - 7:30 pm and wakes up around 3 - 3:30 am for a feed, then sleeps until around 7am. My DS used to do the same at around this age. It's perfectly normal. Engram |
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On Jun 28, 7:08 am, shell8279 wrote:
I have a 7 mo. old who I am still nursing (in addition to feeding her solids). She goes to bed around 7 pm, wakes up around 3 am then wakes for good around 6:30 am. When she awakes at 3 she wants to nurse. I cannot get her to go back to sleep unless I do this. Is this pattern normal for a 7 mo. old? I figured 8 hrs (7-3) is a long to go without eating. Am I wrong? DD will be one year on Tuesday and still nurses every 3 hours or so. |
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shell8279 wrote: I have a 7 mo. old who I am still nursing (in addition to feeding her solids). She goes to bed around 7 pm, wakes up around 3 am then wakes for good around 6:30 am. When she awakes at 3 she wants to nurse. I cannot get her to go back to sleep unless I do this. Is this pattern normal for a 7 mo. old? I figured 8 hrs (7-3) is a long to go without eating. Am I wrong? Sounds perfectly fine to me! -- Chookie -- Sydney, Australia (Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply) "Parenthood is like the modern stone washing process for denim jeans. You may start out crisp, neat and tough, but you end up pale, limp and wrinkled." Kerry Cue |
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shell8279 wrote:
I have a 7 mo. old who I am still nursing (in addition to feeding her solids). She goes to bed around 7 pm, wakes up around 3 am then wakes for good around 6:30 am. When she awakes at 3 she wants to nurse. I cannot get her to go back to sleep unless I do this. Is this pattern normal for a 7 mo. old? I figured 8 hrs (7-3) is a long to go without eating. Am I wrong? most people have the opposite question, is it normal to only sleep 2-3 hrs at this age, which it is, it's also normal to sleep 8hrs, once they are beyond the newborn stage, it's almost impossible for a baby to sleep too much (plenty sleep too little!), a healthy baby will not stay asleep , if they need to eat, they'd have to be really unwell for them to sleep through their need to eat. This doesn't apply for very young babies, when jaundice can cause sleepiness and they do need to be woken and encouraged to feed. I disagree with whoever said put them to bed later, chances are is that will just make her fussy in the evening. If you want to shift the hours she has her long sleep, you can try waking her up after 3-4hrs sleep, and hope she has the longer phase afterwards, but it doesn't always work, they sometimes won't wake or feed well and sometimes still do the later waking. Cheers Anne |
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I didn't want to hear the answer to this either but my ds didnt give up his
night feed till he was over 8mths. And he was waking earlier in the morning than your lo. I agree with Anne - for us putting him to bed later didn't work and it was actually harder to get him down as he was so cranky. Gave that idea up pretty quick! I can say though for me bf'ing only felt 100% rewarding when he dropped this feed and we happily continued till over 15 mnths. Hang in there! Jeni |
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