Be sure to take care of yourself, and get some rest by enlisting the help of your partner during
the long nighttime hours!
Not exact matches
Being a new mom with my first child I was (I think now) almost obsessed with checking how many
hours it was between the
nighttime feedings and how
long they took.
As your little one begins sleeping in
longer stretches, eventually those stretches tend to consolidate themselves more in the
nighttime hours to «match» what's going on in the family generally.
For my girl, she holds her pee for very very
long time which is good duriing naps and
nighttime... yet during the day she will go back and forth and back and forth to potty doing all the steps and of course 2
hours later after the 12th visit to potty she will have an accident not far from the potty.
And if you sleep for 9
hours at the daytime, then you will unlikely sleep 8
hours long during the
nighttime.
In general, once the supply is established, one
nighttime pumping session can be dropped but it is important to ensure a mother is still pumping at least once during the night and never going more than 4 - 6
hours between pumping during the
longest interval between sessions.
Number of night wakings: 1 (Improved from 8) Longest sleep stretch: 10
hours (Improved from 1 1/2) Total
hours of
nighttime sleep: 11
hours (Improved from 8 1/4) Naps: One peaceful nap, two
hours long (Improved from 3/4
hour) Total daily
hours of sleep: 13
hours (Improved from 9
hours)
For children who no
longer nap, they should now be clocking the full 11 - 12
hours of sleep at
nighttime, so bedtime should reflect that based on their usual wake - up time.
Some babies are short nappers,
long nappers, intermediate nappers... all are fine as
long as they are getting enough
nighttime hours to fill in the gaps.
Well, if you wake your baby on a regular schedule throughout the day, say every three
hours to eat, then let your baby sleep as
long as they want during the night, your baby will quickly learn that the time to be awake is during the day and
nighttime is for sleeping.
Babies are not * designed * to be left alone, ignored all night
long... If you don't wish to PARENT a baby (even during the
nighttime hours), then don't have a baby.
If you have Non-24-Hour Sleep - Wake Disorder (a.k.a. «Non-24»), your circadian rhythm isn't always matched up with daytime and
nighttime because your cycle is
longer than 24
hours.