According to the people who make stuff up, Doodle has begun \u201csleeping through the night.\u201d\u00a0 I use quotations here because officially sleeping through the night means 6 hours.\u00a0 I know few adults who can make it regularly on 6 hours sleep so I always have to laugh when I\u2019m told a newborn (who needs 14+ hours of sleep a day) is sleeping through the night after 6 hours.\u00a0 Trust me, getting woken up after 6 hours of sleeping does not feel like a full night\u2019s sleep to me and usually falls between 2 and 3 am which is far from wakeup time in my book!<\/p>\n
Doodle usually falls asleep for the night between 8 and 9 and while he did sleep 8 hours two nights ago, he\u2019s usually closer to the 6 hours and is then up again between 3 and 4 hours later which still doesn\u2019t get us to morning (8 pm+6 hours=2 am+3 hours=5 am).\u00a0 While he does go some nights only waking to feed once or getting close enough for his 2nd<\/sup> feed to wake-up time that I can just pull him into bed and nurse while I doze, I am definitely looking forward to the night when I go to sleep and wake up on my own!<\/p>\n Unfortunately, even as a mommy of 3, I have not yet figured out the magic of getting babies to sleep through the night (really sleep, not this 6 hour nonsense!).\u00a0 Honeybun started sleeping 9 pm to 6 am on her own at around 9 weeks.\u00a0 I chalk this up, though, to our weird schedule.\u00a0 From the time she was 6 weeks I was working at a childcare center and had to be there at 7:00.\u00a0 I had to wake Honeybun up at 5:45 to feed her, feed me, get us both dressed and get there on time!\u00a0 There were a few morning where she would wake to feed at 4:30 or 5:00 and then I had to decide if I should wake her again before we left or not.\u00a0 I think she finally just realized it was worth just sleeping until I woke her up for the day.\u00a0 Amazingly, though, within a few weeks she was sleeping through until after 7:00 on the weekends!<\/p>\n