Ha! I was just about to say that I sure hope THIS baby starts sleeping five-to-seven hour stretches by three months. Or that Liam starts it by twenty-three months. :p
I think breast-fed babies tend to not sleep as long, and, you know, "every baby is different yada yada."
I first slept through the night at around 8 weeks. I know because it was the night my mother's mother died - she became permanently convinced that I was the best baby ever because I slept through that particular night, when she was up late grieving and phoning people.
Of course, that was just one night... And my mother didn't know it at the time but I was allergic to milk, so I was a colicky baby for a long time and doctors just kept saying "oh, it's just colic" instead of telling her to cut dairy out of her diet, so it wasn't til I went onto solid food that she started sleeping soundly, really.
Number 26 was true for me. I was back to pre-pregnancy weight by 6 weeks after Violet was born, and I've since lost so much weight that I've had to consciously force myself to eat more, and higher calorie foods. Full fat yogurt is the shiznit.
Don't pin your hopes on this one - I am back to my pre-James pregnancy weight and arrived there probably about three months or so after he was born... but I'm still not at my pre-Isaac weight.
And yes, they were both breastfed exclusively for six months.
I think it varies. I was the same as Corinne, and back down to my pre-pregnancy weight by six weeks. However, I've probably gained another 10 or more pounds in the past six months due to poor eating habits, and who knows what I'll gain this time: my appetite is ferocious right now! (Though, as Chris points out, I AM "eating for three" now. :p)
Well, if I was going to be completely honest, I would have to say that Violet did, in fact, start sleeping 5 hours a night at around three months. For maybe a month? Then it was three hours. Then two, and that's where we are now. Except during growth spurts or especially bad teething, which is 45 minutes to an hour and a half.
Maybe. But mostly it's my fault. Aside from teething and things like that, he's really waking up so frequently because I've inadvertantly trained him to expect a boob in his mouth every time he stirs while sleeping. I very stupidly tried to avoid him ever crying and waking Chris at night by doing this, and now it's a habit. He doesn't actually wake all the way up unless I deny it to him. But he needs to suck to STAY asleep. I've been working on taking it away sooner, or patting his back, etc., to try to keep him asleep when he stirs, but that seems to result in much sooner stirrings (as in, if I let him suck till he passes out and rolls away, it means about thirty minutes of nursing and then two hours of sleep. If I take it away after ten or fifteen minutes, he's waking again in a half hour.) So I often go hours without sleep, since just when I start to fall slaeep, he's waking again. It's soooooooo nasty and bad and hard to break. And I'm half-seriously considering giving #2 formula in a bottle. :p
I had similar night-nursing and waking problems with Isaac, and I have never had really good milk supply, so very early on with James I started giving him a nice big bottle of formula before bed
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Yes, on balance I'd say James has been much, much easier to manage - he is a lot louder than Isaac (has to be, to get a word in edgewise) but overall he's much less demanding.
He did have colic for the second through fourth months, but it was for the same three hours every evening, without fail, and never deviated. Honestly, he's got a Blackberry in his head. ;)
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I first slept through the night at around 8 weeks. I know because it was the night my mother's mother died - she became permanently convinced that I was the best baby ever because I slept through that particular night, when she was up late grieving and phoning people.
Of course, that was just one night... And my mother didn't know it at the time but I was allergic to milk, so I was a colicky baby for a long time and doctors just kept saying "oh, it's just colic" instead of telling her to cut dairy out of her diet, so it wasn't til I went onto solid food that she started sleeping soundly, really.
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And yes, they were both breastfed exclusively for six months.
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http://www.parenting.com/article/Child/Behavior/Ask-Dr.-Sears-End-Night-Waking
And if you can't trust Dr. Sears... who CAN you trust :-p
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He did have colic for the second through fourth months, but it was for the same three hours every evening, without fail, and never deviated. Honestly, he's got a Blackberry in his head. ;)
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