Read this article from www.babycenter.com:
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Age: 3 months (??????????)
When babies are able to sleep through the night and when they actually do are often very different things. Some infants as young as 3 months old can snooze for six to eight hours at a stretch. (NOT ETHAN) Others won't sleep this long until they're 12 months. (OK, 5 MORE MONTHS TO GO...sob sob) But most babies (70 percent) do sleep through the night by the time they hit 9 months (HOPE ETHAN IS ONE OF THEM), according to the National Sleep Foundation.
Not that "sleeping through the night" means a full night of uninterrupted sleep for you. ''Through the night' is defined as from midnight until five o'clock in the morning," (HUH?????) says Judith Owens, a pediatrician and director of the Pediatric Sleep Disorders Clinic at Hasbro Children's Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island..
You may have heard that bigger babies and babies who eat solids are better sleepers -- it's not true. Your baby's ability to sleep through the night is related to age, not size or diet. (NOW ONLY THAT I KNOW) There's no research to prove that adding rice cereal to the evening bottle, for instance, will help your baby sleep better or longer. (I CAN TELL YOU THIS METHOD DOESN'T WORK) In fact, this practice is a choking hazard (1 SCOOP ONLY MAR FOR 5 OZ MILK), and offering solids too early can deprive your baby of the necessary nutrients in breast milk or formula. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that babies be exclusively breastfed for the first four to six months.
You play a big part in your baby's sleep habits. "Put her to bed drowsy but awake by the time she's 4 months old," says Owens. "This will help her avoid developing a dependence on you to fall asleep, and make it easier for her to fall back to sleep on her own when she wakes at night."
Tip: Experts don't always agree on the best techniques to encourage your child to sleep through the night. But they all believe a crucial first step is creating a soothing bedtime routine and sticking to it.
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So, the conclusion???: Just wait lar, eventually they will sleep through the night...sigh....
6 comments:
dun worry. i was like you before. Now Jayden will sleep thru the night..just that sometimes whine and cried abit. Try to find a friday and try not to feed him milk,just water. And if still cannot carry him and pat him back to sleep. You will suffer the first few nights. And eventually he will get used to sleeping thru the night. Good Luck! remember..many mommies aldo has the same problem and we managed to get thru it. So same to u!
ok, will give it a try tonite. will update you on the progress.
i was just going to comment on what sasha commented... hehehe...
even if he cry, dun bother about him, act like u still sleeping... train him to fall back asleep himself....
i started rachel on this since 3 months, she sleeps through since then...
Ur baby WILL eventually sleep thru the night :D Every baby is different, some eat sleep, eat sleep very easily and some doesnt seem like they would sleep at all :P The article is very true.
Hi all, i tried sasha's method on friday's night and i manage to prolong his night feeding time from 4 hours to 6 hours, which means only one feeding instead of two. Last night, he had his milk at 12a.m. and made some noise at 3a.m. So, I gave him water and he continued to sleep until 6a.m. before the second feeding. Hope this is a good start for him to stop night feeding. Hoooray!!
Good Job!: )
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