thread: How did immunisations affect your baby's sleep?

  1. #1
    Registered User

    Jan 2004
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    How did immunisations affect your baby's sleep?

    Wondering how everyone's bubba were after their immunisations?
    DS had his 2 month needles on Monday and since then he has been having a 3 hour sleep when he first goes down of a night time AND having a sleep during the day again.
    I have had a couple of comments on how others had the same thing, a better sleeper after imms.

    Nic

  2. #2
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    Apr 2008
    Melbourne
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    I do remember noticing that DD slept much better the couple of days following her immunisations - especially her day time naps.

  3. #3
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    Jul 2006
    6,869

    DD2 slept heaps after all of hers....

  4. #4
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    Nov 2004
    Chasing Daylight...
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    My daughter was the opposite. Her sleep was very disrupted for a couple of weeks.

  5. #5
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    Jan 2006
    8,369

    Most didn't bother DS at all, but the MMR flared up his eczema (expected side-effect) so that made his night wake-ups worse.

    Having said that, there were bigger things in his life than his immunisations at the time so maybe it had an effect, but I couldn't tell.

  6. #6
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    Nov 2006
    Sydney, NSW
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    I didn't really notice any difference except the 4 month needles - he slept most of the afternoon and then straight through the night as well!

  7. #7
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    Jan 2008
    Euroa, Victoria
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    My bub was definitely more sleepy.

  8. #8
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    Jan 2007
    where cosmopolitans and margaritas flow all night
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    DD had her 6 month injections yesterday. She slept from 8:30pm last night till 4am today and then 4am-7am, 9am-12:10pm, 1:15-2:30 (both at daycare) and then had fallen asleep 15 mins before I came to pick her up at 4:50pm. In the communication book they wrote that she had a very sleepy day. She then went to sleep for the night at the usual time of 7pm tonight.