What do you consider sleeping through the night?

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My babygirl goes to bed around 9-9:30 and usually sleeps to about 2-3 and wakes to eat, right back to sleep. Then wakes about 3 hours later then right back to sleep, but from 9-5 she’s pretty much waking up once. Do I consider that sleeping through the night? If so, I’m STILL tired 😅😂 
Also: I’ve asked this before, and will be asking the doctor but who has actually started on a small amount of rice cereal at night? We are 3 months.

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So I don’t consider it sleeping through the night unless I went to bed and didn’t have to wake up. So say I put her to bed and I went to bed right after at 11 pm and she doesn’t wake until 6 am when I wake her for daycare I consider that sleeping through. If I put her to bed at 11 pm and she wakes at 3 am for a quick feed and goes right back to sleep I don’t consider that sleeping through the night. So basically if she wakes at any point once I’m asleep no she didn’t sleep through the night because neither did I 🤣.

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My baby has the exact same schedule!

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Our ped said that sleeping through the night for an infant meant sleeping 5-6 hours straight through. Im lucky if babe does 4 hours. Its usually 3, 2,2 then every 1 hr thereafter until he wakes up

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I would say not waking up at all from night to morning . My daughter will sleep 9:00pm-6:00am and then go back until 9:30

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My 11 weeker is sleeping at 11PM-6PM. It’s close to my usual sleep schedule so I’m doing a bit better now. Hoping it stays like that because he was doing this a few weeks ago but reverted to his normal schedule but now he’s sleeping longer again.

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Most doctors consider sleeping 6 hours straight as sleeping through the night

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I suppose it depends. For a month straight, my son was sleeping from 8pm-6 or 7am without waking. I still throw mental parties if he only wakes once and falls asleep on his bottle. This is all under my “sleeping through the night” umbrella.
At the moment, it’s been like 9pm-2am, 4am, and 6am. I don’t consider this sleeping through the night lol. Poor babe has been so fussy going down and seems to wake up really distressed at 2 and 4, before he’s finally up at 6.

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Sleeping through the night to me means not waking up at all, I mean it's in the saying "sleeping through the night". My LO started to sleep at 10:30pm, would wake at 2am to feed, then 4am then 6am then 8am then 10:30 am would wake up until 2pm. She did this for a couple weeks, now this this week she's gone back to waking/eating every two hours max. I hope to get my 4 hour stretch back soon. Last night she slept 4 hours so fingers crossed.
As for rice cereal, I don't think you should change up the feeding unless doctor says too. I mean, why add it?

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I know there will be 3 month old baby’s that sleep at night without waking up at all to eat. But it is considered sleeping through the night if a baby sleeps 5 hours and then has a feed. 
My daughter goes to bed at 7pm. Gets a feed at 11pm and last night she slept till 4am. I gave her a little bottle and she slept again till 7am. I was so happy and hope she keeps that up. 
At about 6 months most baby’s don’t need a night feed anymore

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My daughter sleeps from 7pm until anywhere from 1-4am, nurses and goes back to sleep and then gets up between 530-630am for the day. I have to leave for work at 7am so it’s kinda the perfect schedule for us. To me that’s “sleeping through the night” because she’s going 6-9hrs the first chunk during the night. I’m also still so tired, but I’m back at work now so I have to get up and ready before she’s up to nurse her.

What do you consider sleeping through the night?

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