preemie moms questions....

.....does it take longer for preemies to sleep thru the night? I guess it makes sense, but I never asked the doctor. I read about all these 9-10 week olds sleeping so well, my little guy is still up every 3 hours, but his corrected age is only 4 weeks....is this normal?

Re: preemie moms questions....

Yes it took M - 3 months to sleep thru the night and J - 4 months. M was born at 6 lbs 10ozs and J was bron at 3lbs 10 ozs.

When I say thru the night it was from 10 pm - 8 am, not the 5 hour stretches.

Re: preemie moms questions....

For us ..NO
DD was born at 32 weeks (3lbs 15 oz)and came home 3 weeks later over 5lbs 6oz. She started sleeping through the night around 5 weeks and since she was gaining well our Prd and nurse said to let her. And I mean 11-6am so it works out good for us.

P.S preemies have to be showing continual weight gain in order to be allowed to sleep through the night. Some are on the Nicu schedule and that amy be hard to break.

Message edited 3/28/2008 4:08:50 PM.

Re: preemie moms questions....

The first time my DS slept through the night was when he was 3 months old (corrected age 3 1/2 weeks and that was with putting him to bed at around midnight to get him to sleep until 6am)

He was on the NICU schedule like clockwork...every 3 hours. Then when we started using the swaddle me instead of just swaddling with a blanket he started sleeping longer.

Message edited 3/28/2008 4:31:11 PM.

Re: preemie moms questions....

For us, no. DD started sleeping through the night when she was about 11 weeks (4 weeks correct age) about 10 pm-5 am.

Re: preemie moms questions....

Didn't make a difference for us. DD started sleeping through the night at around a week or two before she was 3 months old. She was born at 35w2d.