Sleeping through the night tips?

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Hi all. I'm preparing to return to work and would very much like my 9 week old to be sleeping through the night by then 😋
He usually sleep about 5-6 hours at night now, waking around 3am to eat. Any fortunate moms have any tips for me to try? 
What time is bedtime? Do you feed right before bedtime or a little before? How much/often to you feed during the day (more small feelings or less large feeding?) 
Thanks very much!

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.. As a mom to a 5 yo, the best advice is to lower your expectations. Babies are not meant to sleep through the night. From a biological stand point, it's just not normal.

Of course you can train a human. They have studied it before. However, training a person is going to screw them psychologically. The effects of "baby training" are well documented. You are causing issues to the child (who didn't ask to be brought to earth) and their immediate well being.

Infants need us a lot. That's parenting, and not attending to your child will cause a lack of trust. Your baby learns from the start you will not come when they need you. It hurts brain development, and physical development. When a child is left to cry they go into "survival mode". They have no idea if they are going to live past that moment. It's a deep down biological response.

What ever you choose just know the outcomes may not be favorable. Sure they might "sleep" but at what cost. Some babies are sleepers and some aren't. You just have to figure out other ways around it.

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My gosh...what are you doing to get your kid to sleep 5-6 hours? I can't get my 8 week old to sleep for more than 2-3 hours 😭

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Sleeping 5-6 now? Holy hell I'd be happy with that! We are up every 3 hours!! 😩

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Sleeping 5 hours *is* considered sleeping through the night. As has been said,  babies sleep thru the night when they're ready,  physically but also emotionally. You can cause them much undue stress by forcing it. You have a good thing going on,  I wouldn't mess with it by forcing the 3am feed out. The only non stressful way (to the baby) would be to pump or formula and have your partner do the 3am feed. If you're both getting up for work then why not share the load. Again,  5 or 6 hours is an AMAZING stretch that most moms would kill for. Don't mess with a good thing.

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It's really going to depend on your baby and his/ her development. My LO started sleeping through the night around 6/7 weeks, but she also doesn't nap much during the day. She is breastfed on demand and will usually nurse for 45-1 hour before bed. My first, however, didn't sleep through the night until he was almost two, so it's really going to depend on your child's development and demeanor.

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Your current sleep schedule sounds great, if not better than average! I think it's rare for babies younger than 6-8 months to sleep thru the night. My friends have told me their babies didn't start sleeping through the night until 18 months 😳
You could maybe try cluster feeding in the hours before bedtime to see if that cuts out a night feed, but don't force it.

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I've had some luck with giving him a little chamomile tea before his last feeding. I give about 10mL of tea with 3mL of gripe water to make it taste sweet like my breastmilk. I think it's safe to give more, but I'm paranoid about empty calories.

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I follow the eat, wake, sleep cycle. Her last feeding of the night is the only feeding where I put her immediately down to go to sleep. So at 10, I change her diaper and put her in a gown or pjs. Then I feed her, put her directly down, and she sleeps until 6:30 or 7. She's been sleeping through the night for 6 weeks now. She started at 6 weeks. She goes 2.5-4 hours in between feedings during the day time.

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Mine didn't really start sleeping through the night until about 11 weeks. We started a bed time routine early, even before he started sleeping 8-10 hours at a time. We do bath, a little play time/reading, then he's swaddled fed a 7 ounce bottle and he's out by 9:30. Oh, we start his bed time routine around 8. Feeding through the day is still on demand, 4-6 ounce bottles every 3-4 hours. This is something that just happened to work for us and just started on its own out of nowhere. One night he was still waking up every 3 hours to eat the next night, he went 10 hours straight and it's been that way ever since.

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I'm back at work and little miss is the same way. We shoot for bed around 8:30-9:30. Go to bed with a full tummy and she's routinely up by 3/3:30. Eats and diaper change within 15 minutes. I get up at 5 or so, drag her down stairs with me and put her in her swing, I pump and feed her if she's up. By then she's sound asleep again and I hop in the shower, get dressed and have breakfast. Then she's stirs and I'll either top her off with feeding if she fell asleep during the last one and then go change her diaper again and her clothes. Then out the door we go! It works well for us! Just have to try out your routine! Best of luck!!

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