10.5 month old sleeping questions

Hi all! My 10.5 month old DS has never been a good sleeper... Talking to the other girls in my mum's group over the weekend made me realise how bad he is...they were amazed when I said our good nights we only wake up 3 or 4 times to him. So my questions to you are:

* How long does your 10/11 month old sleep at night?

* How many times does he/she wake each night?

* What time does he/she go to bed at night & wake in the morning?

* How many sleeps does he/she have each day and for about how long?

At the moment we've got it 'good'...we're getting maybe 3 - 5 times a night where we have to help DS go back to sleep (he goes down around 9:30 pm and wakes for boobie around 7 am) but he's sleeping twice a day for an hour or so each time. He's been quite sick for 1.5 months so his sleep was very disrupted and things got really bad but he is coming good again now since he's been well for a week now.

Anyway, I'm just curious what other bubs his age are like... I'd love to hear it all, good and bad stories... :) Ta!

My DD is 10 months.
Sleep overnight varies from 1-2 wake-ups a night and on the rare occasion has slept thru.
She goes down by 7:30pm then gets up around 8am. Lately been waking around 12-1am and again somewhere between 4-6am but every couple weeks it changes.
During the day generally she'll have 2 sleeps which can last anywhere between 30mins to 1.5hrs.

Caleb has been terrible over the last 3 months. Waking at least once and quite often twice. I am able to settle him quickly though.

Having said that now the last few nights he's been sleeping through.

Sherie

Rylee has never been good sleeper - at the moment she is waking 2-3 times. I would like to get her in bed by 7.30 / 8 pm but lately it has been stretching out to 9 pm because she won't settle and then wakes up about midnight and then about 3 am then 7 ish. Has a morning sleep of about an hour and then if lucky an afternoon one of about 45 mins. However, it wasn't so long ago she was waking 8-10 times a night - not a good time, so at the moment I feel like it is good with 2-3 wakes even though I also talk to other people who think it's terrible.....she also won't self-settle herself - has to be walked around and will fall asleep on my shoulder.....also, has never ever done a 7 pm - 7 am stint - (wow - that would be a dream, but I would wake in a panic that something was wrong !!).

I am sure it will get better...just waiting :)
Laurin

P.S My DH is a terrible sleeper so I blame this entirely on him lol!

Sherie, don't know if this will make you feel better or not, but from about 5-11months I got up sometimes up to 20 times a night - I kid you not.
3-4 sounds like a good night to me too. :hug: Don't compare him. He will get it in his own time.
I was so stressed about her sleeping until I realised that since I was the only one actually having to deal with it, if I didn't see it as a 'problem' then it wasn't. When I realised that I relaxed and so did she.

Thanks girls! :) It's great to hear what other bubs are doing... I know there's a huge variety and I am not wanting to compare Riley to others, just get an idea of what others are up to at this age.

In his 10 months we've had maybe 10 nights where he's slept through (from about 11 pm to 7 am) and otherwise the best has been maybe 3 wakes a night...the worst (ongoing for a month recently) has been about 18-25 times a night (basically not sleeping much at all).

I'm so curious because so many people have told me that Riley is a bad sleeper, but it seems that perhaps he's on a par with a lot of others his age??!?!

Matthew's sleep patterns have been disrupted coz he keeps getting sick, but generally he has a nap in the morning at around 930 for about an hour and then another nap about 2pm for another hour. He goes to sleep between 630 and 7pm depending on how easily he goes to sleep. He often wakes up around midnight or 1am and we think that maybe due to wind so we have been trying to stop that by adding some things to his bedtime routine.

I have started to give him Infants Friend before his bedtime breast feed, and after he has finished his feed I prop myself up on pillows on the bed and lie him down on my chest so he is on an incline. I then pat and rub his back and do get quite a bit of wind out of him. It's odd coz he has no problem normally getting wind out, but if doing this means I get a good nights sleep, I am all for it!

This seems to be stopping the midnight wakening. But it is early days yet, and now that he is sick again it will probably delay it again for another couple of weeks. Just when you think you are getting somewhere!:doh:

He always wakes for a feed around 3 - 4 am, so I feed him in my bed at the moment (way to cold to be sitting around with your chest out :lol:) and once he is fast asleep again I take him back to his cot. He then sleeps until about 630am.

SSmiles, why is your darling boy waking? Is it wind or does he just want the company? When Matthew was younger he used to wake for the company, I solved that problem by putting a radio on a very low volume under the cot. The noise seemed to help him sleep and then if he stirred, the low noise was more comforting to him than the silence of night. After all, babies are happy with noise, think how loud it must have been in our bellies :lol: I have since weaned him off it by having it on less and less. Perhaps you could try keeping a record of the times he wakes and why you think he woke. Sometimes when you see it on paper over a couple of days a pattern emerges that you dont realise is there when you are exhausted from lack of sleep.

Good luck, and wishing you a good nights sleep!!:goodluck:

Ah they are all so different. Here's what Ned is doing:

* How long does your 10/11 month old sleep at night?
About 11 hours


* How many times does he/she wake each night?
A good night, about 2-3 times, but I feed him back to sleep each time. If he's been up a few times I lie down in the spare Queen bed in his room and fall asleep while feeding and we both are there until the morning. I love the cuddles though :lol:

* What time does he/she go to bed at night & wake in the morning?
I aim to get him in bed by 7pm, depends if Lucie is refusing to go down and sometimes he won't settle till 7.30/8pm.
In the mornings, he'd happily sleep till 7am I reckon if Lucie didn't wake us all up! She wakes at 5am usually so that's typically his start time too. Sometimes if I can keep her quiet till about 6am it's all good.


* How many sleeps does he/she have each day and for about how long?
He has about 2 sleeps during the day. He feeds to sleep during the day too and sometimes will only have 2 catnaps, sometimes 2 longer sleeps of 1,1.5 hours each. It totally varies.

My bub is almost 10 months :)

* How long does your 10/11 month old sleep at night?
About 12 hours


* How many times does he/she wake each night?
At the moment he is waking 3 times - at about 11, 2 and 5am.

* What time does he/she go to bed at night & wake in the morning?
He goes to bed at 6pm (seems earlyish but he gets overtired if I try to keep him up later). He gets up around 6.30, though he generally wakes earlier than that. We leave him in his cot until he starts whinging.


* How many sleeps does he/she have each day and for about how long?
He's a great day sleeper, I wish he'd do the same at night....he has two sleeps. Morning sleep is about 2 hours, afternoon sleep 1-1.5 hours.

He slept through the night for about three weeks when he was four months old, then just stopped. He's done it ONCE since. He then just slid downhill really badly with his sleep, at it worst he was up every hour, on the hour, every single night. I nearly went mad.
I really went quite batty for a while obsessing about getting him to sleep longer at night, really did my head in trying to work out why he wouldn't.
Looked into sleep school, considered cc'ing (but didn't do it, and had to put up with people minimising how awful I felt because if I wouldn't let him cry it "can't be that bad"). I very nearly lost the plot about a month ago from lack of sleep, I was just exhausted.

Someone on another forum gave me some advice saying to just "surrender to the little person" lol. So I kind of stopped obsessing so much about getting him to sleep better and starting directing that energy into working out ways to cope until he does it on his own.
I'm much happier and coping much better now that all that pressure is gone.

My almost 11 month old wakes twice on a good night and 3-4 times on a not so good night. She is usually in bed and asleep around 6.30-7pm, and will wake often around 9pm, midnight/1am and 4am. Usually I feed her back to sleep as I find that works for me. Wake up time is between 5.30 and 7am.....after which she may have a half hour or hour nap in the morning and the same in the afternoon if I'm lucky.