Still not sleeping though the night at 13 weeks

Ds is still up every 3 to 4 hours through the night and he is 13 weeks old.

Now that I am back at work this is really tough.

Any suggestions? Also I know there is a book a lot of girls on here recommend about making a schedule. Anyone know it?

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The book you're talking about is Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child. It was definitely helpful for us. What is your DS's current schedule like?

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My kids just started STTN(and not even every night) at 9 months. You hear a lot of stories about babies STTN at 6 weeks but unfortunately I don't think that is the norm. A baby until 6 months may need to eat at night. So wake up, feed him/her with all the lights off and try to stay as sleepy as possible. I know its hard I have twins and work also. Luckily I work from home so that helps

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Kaydyn was still up 1-2 times a night at that age....although she generally had 1 good stretch from about 10pm-3am most nights.

Swaddling def helped her. We also put on a classical CD for her (still do now at 20 months) and got a humidifier for white noise.

We tried to do the same routine every night of bathing, reading a book, snuggling, bottle, then bed.

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Thanks, I still swaddle and every night around 8pm I change him give him a baby massage and dim the lights. He loves it and passes out in my arms around 9:30pm. I have a sound machine in my room for the white noise.

Maybe 1-2 times a week he will sleep for like 6-7 hours and it's heaven. Of course that's on the weekends when I can take naps. lol

I'm going to try that book. Thanks

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Posted by DRMom

My kids just started STTN(and not even every night) at 9 months. You hear a lot of stories about babies STTN at 6 weeks but unfortunately I don't think that is the norm. A baby until 6 months may need to eat at night. So wake up, feed him/her with all the lights off and try to stay as sleepy as possible. I know its hard I have twins and work also. Luckily I work from home so that helps

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how are naps during the day?

can bedtime be earlier?

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Mason is 3.5 months and gets up once during the night. He has his last bottle around 6:30ish then he goes to bed around 7:30... gets up at midnight and then up at 5:45 AM. It's b4 I get up and get ready for work anyway. Nothing you can do. I'm hoping when he starts oatmeal soon it'll help, but who knows.
Even when I tried feeding him later it's still the same thing. He's like clockwork

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Well Ds is alomost 8 onths and not STTN either. Maybe once or twice a week on a complete whim. so no sympathy over here.

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DD is 3 months and still wakes to eat during the night. Last night she did her longest stretch of 11:30pm - 6am and I was shocked!

There is a section in what to expect the first year that tells you when the baby gets up during the night, to try and delay each nightly feeding by 1/2 hour and basically help teach them to sleep longer through the night. It worked great for me with DD #1 and I am going to be doing this with DD #2 as well

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Posted by DRMom

My kids just started STTN(and not even every night) at 9 months. You hear a lot of stories about babies STTN at 6 weeks but unfortunately I don't think that is the norm. A baby until 6 months may need to eat at night. So wake up, feed him/her with all the lights off and try to stay as sleepy as possible. I know its hard I have twins and work also. Luckily I work from home so that helps

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Posted by JennZ

Well Ds is alomost 8 onths and not STTN either. Maybe once or twice a week on a complete whim. so no sympathy over here.

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My DS didn't sleep through the night til he was one....I was working too.

It sucked, but its part of having baby. No books worked for us, and CIO didn't until hewas one. Sometimes they just aren't ready til they ar eolder

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Many babies aren't ready to STTN at that age. You could try a variety of different things and DC may still wake up to eat. DS didn't STTN until 7 months.

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My son is 15 MONTHS and isn't STTN.

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My DD didn't sleep through the night regularly until 5 months old.

What helped us the most when I went back to work (12 weeks) was going to bed when I put her down for the night - 9:00. This way I got a decent amount of sleep before she woke up. Also, my DH gave her a dream feed between 10 and 11, before he went to bed.

She usually slept until 4:00am, which meant I got to sleep 7 hours straight.

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While my DD STTN very young, my son did not until he was 15 months old.

Probably not the case for you since your DC is so young, but for us at 15 months, all it took was for my DH to go in with the cup of milk for 2 nights and he gave up. Apparently he didn't really want the milk, just mommy and when mommy stopped coming in, he stopped waking up. If only I knew that MONTHS ago

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When I read these posts, I think of the "Nature vs Nurture" Theory.

Before I had kids, I believed that the way a child behaves, sleeps,etc is a reflection of the way they were taught and the way they were treated by their caregivers..

Boy, was I wrong. I read all of the books and did everything they said to a "T". Ava slept through the night from about 6 weeks from 7-7. WHen she turned 2, it all went out the window...we were doing nothing different.

We did all of the same things with Brody, he even slept in the same bassinett and then crib, and he turned 1 last week and is just starting to sleep through the night.

So, basically, I do agree to read as many books as you can, but babies have their own ideas sometimes...