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  1. #1
    Registered User

    Apr 2007
    127

    how much sleep do you get with newborn

    Hi, my ds is appr 3weeks, and just wondering how much sleep all the other mums are getting at night.. my little one sleeps apprx from 6 til 10.30 or so, then wakes every 3/4 hrs after. so i get about 2 hrs of sleep in between the 3feeds. would love to know what others get.. ta

  2. #2
    BellyBelly Member

    Jun 2005
    Sydney
    2,121

    First 6 weeks i was probably up every 2-3 hrs. I breastfed all my girls. I might have gotton a 4 hours stint from say 8pm - 12pm, but being up every 2-3 hrs was pretty much the norm.

  3. #3
    Registered User

    Jan 2007
    7,197

    Yep sounds like what I have been getting 3 hourly feeds that are roughly 1-1 and 1/2 hours n legnth leaving not much sleep time! My DH is lovely and has been doing morning duty with the 2 kids though so I can sometimes get 2 hours in the morning without the monitor on!

  4. #4
    Registered User

    Feb 2006
    NSW Central Coast
    5,301

    Yep, same here, we're still doing 3hrly feeds, with the occaisional 4-5hr break sometimes if I'm lucky. Co sleeping really helps with lack of sleep if you can. I hardly wake now when ds needs a feed and don't really remember doing it!! I still get broken sleep, but I can snooze while he feeds so I don't have to actually get up and fully wake.

  5. #5
    Registered User

    Mar 2007
    outer South East Melbourne
    2,881

    The first 2 months Brock would wake around 1am & 4am and I'd be up for around 15 mins to 30 mins each time. I would go to the lounge and watch Foxtel while I was doing it. I managed to catch up on a show I loved but had missed episodes of as it was on at 4am so I didn't mind that feed. I felt like I got heaps of sleep and didn't feel sleep deprived at all but I think that's cos I'd get straight back to sleep when I got into bed.

    From 2 months on he would wake mostly just once a night for a feed then started to sleep through at 12 weeks.

  6. #6
    Registered User

    Jun 2007
    397

    I def loved my pay tv when caleb was that age!!! we had about 3 hour blocks too, but the little bugger would sometimes be awake longer than half an hour... now that got tuff!!!! For us it all got HEAPS better around the 10 week point, but lots of my friends said 6 weeks it got better for them.!!