Sentences with phrase «sleep a stretch of»

Once these babies reached the five - hour milestone, they continued on with more sleep success, some achieving sleep stretches of nine to 13 hours.

When my little babe was nine weeks old, she finally slept a stretch of seven hours during the night, and I thought I heard the angels sing.

Once your baby is old enough to sleep a stretch of four to five hours, it would be up to you to decide if you want to pump or not.

She sleeps a stretch of about 10 hours at night, waking up once to feed.

Not exact matches

But looking at it recently, I had a realization about this odd verse: «Meanwhile Jonah had gone down to the lowest part of the vessel and had stretched out and fallen into a deep sleep.»

Any traveller knows that long, straight stretches of road are dangerous because they induce sleep.

She likely shuffled down the hall and into the room where her daughter Brittanie should have been yawning, stretching, and asking for five more minutes of sleep.

I have found that I need to be more active during the day to improve my sleep so I know walk 1 - 2 miles every day during my work breaks (I never used to take breaks), follow a stretching / yoga routine most days and this is all on top of resistance training 2 - 4 times a week.

I got a nearly four hour stretch of sleep.

Some of the negroes would be tending the roasting flesh; some with the swab, basting with the seasoning; some laughing loud enough to wake the sleeping echoes; some lazily stretched out on the ground thinking of tomorrow's feast.

Everyday I want to: drink plenty of water and herbal tea, move my body through dance and yoga, take magnesium salt baths, do my nightly facial treatments (with most of these products / methods), free - write three pages in my journal, massage and stretch my neck and jaw, sleep deeply, eat slowly and make myself cozy toasts / soups / lentil bowls as much as possible.

He also notices the emphasis Herbert puts on the work Michigan players do away from the field, such as soft - tissue work with foam rollers, stretching exercises before and after practice, the value of a good night's sleep and eating balanced meals.

At 6 or 7 months (when he started getting too big for the cradle) we tried him in the crib in his room for short stretches at a time until he started to sleep at least for most of the night.

Incidentally, both of my kids slept much longer stretches right next to me than they would if they were sleeping on their own.

With breastfeeding, once one month arrives, mom has the option of pumping so you can feed your baby and let her get 4 + hours of sleep at one time, which is way better than two two - hour stretches.

Nighttime feedings cause sleep deprivation which makes everything worse; try to work it out so both you and mom get one 4 - hour stretch of sleep with each of you taking a shift the other one sleeps through.

The middle seats were great so she could stretch out and sleep for 7 of those hours.

If you are having trouble getting long stretches of sleep from your baby or toddler: Read this book (for babies) or this book (for toddlers).

Any stretch of sleep is a good thing!

Newborns usually sleep a lot though they don't sleep for more than a couple of hours at a stretch because of their small tummies waking them up.

Putting your baby to bed when they show natural signs of tiredness is the best way to enable your baby to sleep for a decent stretch of time and the most soundly and going to bed too late can result in your restless little one waking too early.

When the long stretch of sleep lengthens you get to sleep longer.

My 4.5 mo old recently started sleeping in a stretch of 10 hrs at night but has been for the last week waking up at 5 am.

As baby gets older, their stomach gets bigger, they'll be able to sleep for longer stretches of time, and the time between feedings will lengthen.

Does your baby have one longer stretch of sleep around the same time every day?

My 3 months old daughter had a few nights of sleeping 8 - hr stretches from 7PM to 3AM when she was 2 months old, but now at 3 mos old, she's waking up twice a night!

It's been suggested that we need about seven to eight hours of sleep to function at our best, but clearly a long stretch of sleep isn't compatible with the tiny tummy of a new baby, or the naturally fast gastric emptying time of breast milk.

If you think about it, will you do a poll on the effects of reflux on babies» ability to sleep longer stretches at night?

Despite tweaking and shifting and adjusting and trying to find the best schedule for her needs, I am not at 6 months old and still being lucky to get a 4 hour stretch of sleep from her at night.

The problem is that when a child is being stretched and stretched and stretched over and over again and they don't have the established healthy sleep habits at night then, it's harder to stretch them like that in all these, you know, series of special occasions because they are really not gonna be at their best and obviously you have probably experienced.

Once she got up to weight, we cut back on supplementing, but we kept doing 1 bottle of formula per day right before we wanted to go to bed because then we got a long stretch of sleep!

It is important to try to sleep when the baby does as baby may only have one longer stretch of sleep in 24 hours.

He went through a period, before he got sick, where he slept a 4 - 5 hour stretch at the beginning of the night and then woke once or twice at most until morning.

Once your babies are older, though, eventually you do want to discourage more frequent night - feedings and encourage longer stretches of sleep, so don't continue to do that forever.

As a result, my new daughter was on a fairly predictable routine by 1 month and by 9 weeks was giving me 8 hour stretches of sleep at night.

Even though it seems like practicing EC (elimination communication) with a baby at night is a huge pain in the arse, I often feel like it's a matter of short term effort, long term benefit (ehm, longer stretches of sleep).

My EBF dude slept through the night from 10 weeks (where sleeping through the night is defined as a stretch of at least 5 hours... in his case 10 - 11 pm to 5 am).

Always take any type of medication immediately after nursing and / or before a long stretch of sleep, if possible.

If your infant's night waking have left you much too acquainted with the wee hours of the morning, you're likely wondering what you can do to get her to sleep for longer stretches.

Wait for, and watch for, the signs that your baby is ready: sleeping longer stretches (even at nap time), self - soothing, and falling asleep without a lot of fuss at bedtime are all encouraging signs.

* Lots of babies will sleep longer stretches after they come out of a growth spurt.

If you pay attention to your baby's feeding cues instead of putting your child on a schedule, you may find that the baby is hungry every hour or so for a few hours, and then he sleeps for a longer stretch.

Dacia F Narvaez (a professor of psychology at Notre Dame University) explains how adults do not sleep for a continuous 8 - hour stretch, but simply forget they have woken up throughout the night.

If you're lucky, they're probably going for longer stretches of sleep at night as well.

Make daytimes full of light, sound, diaper changes, and before you know it, baby will be taking her longer sleep stretch at night.

We had a few months in the beginning of 6 hour stretches, then 3 or 4, and now as she approaches the one year mark (though she was a preemie so she's really only supposed to almost be 10 months) we've had some pretty horrid sleep regression and wakefulness.

By the end of the first two weeks, if your child is gaining weight, wetting at least 6 to 8 diapers a day, having regular bowel movements, and there's no evidence of jaundice, you can let her sleep for one longer stretch of about 5 hours each day.

At this stage, «sleeping through the night» is considered to be a stretch of only 5 or 6 hours.

Time will tell if it stretches out like another sleep bra I bought and now sits at the bottom of my dresser drawer because the straps fall off my shoulders, etc..

Go to bed early when the babies take their longest stretch of sleep, and see if your partner can help with at least one nighttime feeding.