Sleep arrangements Check In

[ahayden1230]

I thought I would check in and see how everyone is sleeping with thier babies now that baby is several weeks old.

How old is baby?
What is your night time sleep arrangement?
How often is baby up to feed?

My baby is 6 weeks and we still struggle at nignt. He prefers to be held and sleeps on my chest. Everytime to go to put him down he wakes up and cries.... He will nap during day in swing or RNP but I can't keep him in them at We are still up every 1.5 to 2 hours to feed! I'm hoping this stops soon. He is 12 lbs and growing perfectly. Maybe he is just really hungry and a BIG eater? I'm envious of all of those whose babies are sleeping 5 hours at a time!!! I can't imagine how good that sleep would feel.
How is eberyobe else doing?

[laceysbryan]

LO is one month old today!

He's still sleeping in the PnP in our room at night. We're going to move him to his crib soon, but the temperature is always much colder in his room so we need to get someone out here to fix that before we move him.

LO is is up once or twice in the night to feed. Ex: last night he fed at 11, woke up at 4:30, then we got up at 8. Knock on wood he keeps it up!

[4littlebears]

S is still in the pnp in our room next to me. I'm doing better at getting him back to sleep in the pnp after feedings instead of bed sharing. Not that I mind that but sometimes he rolls and it scares me that he'll suffocate. We're still getting up most nights every 3 hours to feed.

[Looney]

DS is 5+ weeks. He has slept in his crib in his room since our first night home.

He goes to bed around 8 these days (always by 9 though) and sleeps until 2ish. We get the occasional 3 or 4 am as well. Then he goes right back to sleep for another 3 or 4 hours.

[BabyStandish]

5w2d
We try to go to bed anywhere from 9-10pm. We put him in the bassinet next to our bed first. When he wakes up for the first feed we change him and then do side lying position in bed and then LO is usually in bed with us the rest of the night. He wakes up anywhere from 1-3 times to eat. It really depends on how long of a stretch that first sleep is since that's usually the longest. If he wakes up at 1-1:30 then we know he'll be up again around 4. This morning we only had one wake up at 3:30am, he went back to sleep around 5-5:30 and then woke up at 7 for the day.

[ladyprof]

A is 4 weeks today. She sleeps mostly in her Rock and Play next to our bed but has slept in the swing (also in our room) a time or two at night. She gets up 2-3 times a night to eat usually and gets super fussy by 5-6 and I nurse her in bed and then cuddle her.

[tkr7c9]

Baby girl is 6 weeks and she sleeps in her bassinet in her own room. She usually only wakes up 1 or 2 times MOTN for a changing and feeding. We did have a few rough days last week where she woke up 3-4 times through the night. We usually put her to bed between 8-9:30pm and she is up for the day between 7-9am.

[tomorrowisanotherday]

DS is 4.5 weeks old and he is sleeping in his crib. I really didn't want to bed share, one because I was scared and two I really value that alone time/space with the hubby.

We had to survive in the beginning, so he pretty much slept on my chest for two weeks, then he and I co slept on the double bed that is in DS' s room during the three week growth spurt so I could nurse laying down. After we made it through that, he started sleeping longer stretches, so we made a big effort to get him in his crib.

The trick for us was that he sleeps on his belly, which I am okay with because he can pick up and turn his head very well. He now goes to bed between 9 and 10, up around 2 or 230 and then back to bed until 530 when his daddy's alarm goes off. I get up for the day at that point, so even though he goes back to sleep after that, I count it as a nap

I'm kinda dreading the 6 week growth spurt because it will probably mess it all up, but for right now it's working.

[hollydfromtn]

I posted in spam about this yesterday. DS is 2 1/2 weeks and we are currently bed sharing. Not my first choice but it's what is working for now. I would like to transition him into his PNP that is in our room.

His sleep schedule has been all over the place too. He usually eats every 2hrs but last night he went one stretch of about 4.5 hours and then was up every hour after that. It's very unpredictable and a little frustrating. He has also started fighting sleep. He groans and whines the entire time I'm trying to get him back to sleep until he finally just passes out.

[maebb]

4w5d

Goes to bed about 10pm, still up around 1, 4, and 7 to eat. I think last night he skipped the 1am feeding, so that was nice!

We mostly let him sleep in the bed with us and side-lying nursing at night. I'd like to transition him to the crib before I go back to work in a week and a half.

[wahooMOM13]

He's almost 5 wks old and sleeping in the RNP next to the bed. Nurses every 2-4 hrs at night. No nice long stretches yet.

[lexishay]

He will be a month on Friday. (Still can't believe how fast time is going) it depends sometimes he will sleep in his RNP and then sometimes he won't sleep until I hold him so he occasionally sleeps in the bed. The last two nights he's gone to sleep around 11 woke up at 1 then woke back up around 3 or 4. So we've been getting 4 to 5 hour stretched hopefully he stays this way it's wonderful.

[milagros315]

E is 4w6d.

He sleeps in his crib, but we sleep in the nursery as well (double bed).

He gets his bedtime bottle around 10 and then he usually wakes up around 1:00 and 5:00. Typically he's up for the day by 7:30, but on really good days he'll sleep until 9 or 10. We're going to start working on a bedtime routine/schedule this month.

[rodiesmum]

4 wks. Would sleep at a PNP in our room. 1st stretch of sleep is at 3.5 hrs. Wakes up after another three hrs. After which she sometimes cluster feeds early in the morning

[heidih21]

M is 6w1d.
I try to go to bed between 10-11. Anything later means less sleep for me! If I get to bed by 11, with a 10:30 feeding he is usually up around 3 putting us back to sleep around 4 and then is up around 8 or 9. If I his last feeding before is after 11 then at the motn feeding he is ready to be up for the day. Right now he is in a bassinet next to our bed. I thought I would want him in his crib by the time I go back to work (7 more weeks) but we will see

[backseatdriver]

She is 5.5 weeks. Sleeps in the bassinet in our room. She is not really on a great schedule yet. First stretch is 3-6 hours depending on how she slept during the evening. Then usually 2-3 hour stretches after that. Usually one of her wakeups lasts for 1-2.5 hours which is brutal MOTN. My son always went right back to sleep. Colic actually seems to be improving. It is a trade off. If she is up screaming all evening she will sleep 11-5. If she sleeps in the evening she will be up a lot at night. I try to go to sleep whenever she does.

[llambrose]

C will be 6 weeks tomorrow. He sleeps in a co-sleeper next to my bed though lately we have been putting him to sleep in the PnP in the nursery until after his dad feeds him around 3am. I bed share with my dd so I can't really have the baby in the bed with me much but sometimes in the morning I sleep in the middle of the bed and bring him over on my right to nurse/snooze. He loves to sleep with me. He does well in his co-sleeper otherwise. I usually feed him around 11 or midnight and put him down asleep then try to get myself and dd to bed. My h stays up and feeds him around 3 or 4 then puts him back down in my room then he wakes up to eat again anywhere from 7 to 9 then sleeps more. If I don't have to do anything, then I will nap more too. Obviously all this will need to change when I go back to work in 6 weeks

[nachomomma]

How old is baby? 2 weeks on Thursday
What is your night time sleep arrangement? RNP right next to my side of the bed.
How often is baby up to feed? Every 3 hours or so. He's difficult to get back to sleep though, so I'm not getting as much sleep as I'd like.

[ashlantic]

LO is a 1 month today! He's been in the rnp next to our bed but over the weekend we started transitioning him to the pack n play in our room. He'll usually fall asleep around 8 or 9 out in the living room with us. We let him sleep on us and eventually put him in his swing, then DH and I sleep on the couch until he wakes up for his next feed. He's usually up between 12 and 1 to nurse. Then he's asleep til 4 or 5. I get up with him then because that's when DH gets up to go to work. He usually sleeps for an hour or so after that feeding, so I count it as a nap.

hollydfromtn my lo has been fighting sleep as well! Especially for naps. He gets so crabby and overtired sometimes! Poor little guy.

[christeng87]

LO is 7 weeks today. He has been sleeping a good chunk of the night (5-6 hours) in the rock n play, then after I feed him I have been putting him in bed with us for another 2-3 hours. So far that's worked really well! He was sleeping with us the entire night, so this has been really nice the past week!

[grommom]

Two weeks old today.
We are co sleeping
He wakes roughly about every two hours and sometimes sleeps longer but is awake for an hour so I'm awake. The only pattern I see emerging is a 4:30 am poop which I don't enjoy dealing with as I'm super groggy and that wakes me up so I'm awake for at least an hour even if he falls back asleep.

[Deleted]

5w3d. Sleeps in the RnP at bedside. Put down at 9, up to eat around 11, 2, 5. Refuses to go back to sleep in RnP after 5 so he either comes in bed with me or I wake up and take him downstairs and put him in his swing.

[wishuponastar]

LO turned 5 weeks yesterday.
He does not like to sleep flat- so he has been in the RnP. He usually sleeps one long stretch and then a 2-3 hour stretch. That being said- I think he is going through a bit of a growth spurt the last few days- he was up every 2 hours or so a few times- and I could not feed him enough.

He was back to normal last night- hope it stays!

[ladyprof]

I wanted to add that we use the miracle blanket at night but just wrap her in whatever blanket during the day to try and signify nighttime and get a longer stretch.

[luciddreamer]

DS will be 2 weeks on Wed and has been sleeping in the PNP pushed right up to my side of the bed since we've been home. He wakes up a couple of times a night and I like that I can hear him fussing before he is in full out hangry baby mode.

I would love to be in bed at 9 pm, but he tends to be fussy around 10-11 pm and wants to be cuddled. During the night feeds, I have a bad habit of falling asleep with him in my arms. I try to occupy myself by playing with my phone, but often end up clicking on random things. Oops.

We have no specific plans on moving him to his own room, but it will eventually happen.

[yamrwhite]

5 weeks yesterday, wakes once to eat, cosleeping.

[josephssweetie]

People are going to hate me for saying this, but my little guy has been sleeping in his crib since we got home, and for a 5-8 hour stretch each night since 3 days old. He's 2w3d now and almost 8 pounds. He nurses every 1-3 hours during the day and sleeps the rest of the time. I put him to bed for the night around 10 (change diaper, swaddle, nurse, then pacifier, hat, and lay him in his crib) and he'll sleep for 5-8 hours, then I'll go through the routine again and he'll sleep until 8ish.

I realize I'm very lucky this time so far. I thought my older son was a good sleeper from the beginning, but this little guy is showing him up big time!

[Jellypepper]

LO is 2 week 3 days and wakes twice a night to nurse. She sleeps in either the co-sleeper in bed and in her RnP.

[shehulk723]

My baby girl is 4 weeks tomorrow.

We are still bed sharing for now. The bassinet did not work out for us. I was so scared to bed share but we sleep so much better. We're going to set up the crib soon and really make an effort to get her to sleep in that.

A typical night she'll sleep in 4 hour stretches so I nurse her to sleep, then every 4 hours until we decide to get out of bed lol.

[kellimark]

Sleeps in bassinet next to my side of the bed. I have it slightly elevated due to colic.
Goes to bed between 8-9 and usually wakes up at about 2 ish then again at 6