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How long does your baby sleep at night?

How old is your baby and how long do they sleep for? My baby is almost 10 weeks old and is still waking up 2-3 times a night. *yawn* lol. I feed her when she wakes up, but have just read that you can try settle them in other ways instead of feeding so they learn they don't need to eat during the night. Has anyone else tried this to get their baby to sleep longer? I've always assumed that she was crying because she was hungry...

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1. My baby girl is 7 months old and stilllll wakes up 2-3 times a nitee! Lol. She is exaustingg me!!:(( but I love her to death!!=))
2. You shouldn't refuse food to a baby who is willing to eat when they are only 10 weeks old. Really, they should be at LEAST 6 months old before you start any sort of sleep training like that, and ideally over a year. Some kids do need to get up and eat, and if your baby is eating then she needs to. They will not overeat.
3. Mine is 7weeks and does the same thing hunny. VERY TIRING But I have also just been getting up to feed him... There isnt much you can do to get them to go back to sleep, because they get up because they are hungry and you can just not feed them. If he/she wants to eat then feed em, but if their not try all the remedies like rubbing them with lavendar lotion, that seems to call them down. Or put them to bed swaddled
4. my daughter wuz just like that she woke up every 2 or 3 hours for a bottle it wuz very tiring i've heard puting ceral inthere bottles will make them more full so they;ll sleep longer,i never tried but now my daughters 5 months and she sllep romlike 11 to8 its really your choice if u wanna try or just wait till they get older
5. For me on all my kids about the age of 2 1/2 lol. Im not sure how to settle a kid that makes them sleep all night. When they are hungry they will wake up for food no matter what time it is or how settled they are. My older kids five and three wake up at 6 am for food lol when we are hungry we need food.
6. You need to keep feeding her on demand right now. She's too young to be soothed back to sleep when she's waking up rather than being fed. It's common for babies to still wake up a few times at night for up to a year. I'm lucky, my son is 3 1/2 months old and sleeps between 6 and 8 hours now (he wakes up to fart lol but that's about it) but for the first while I had no choice but to cosleep (I'm breastfeeding) so that he could eat and I didn't feel on the brink of passing out during the day. He used to wake up multiple times a night for a long, long time. We spent his first month sleeping sitting up on a futon so I didn't have to get out of bed everytime he was hungry. It was a lifesaver. At about 6 months, as long as baby is gaining weight well, growing nicely and seems happy and content, at that point it's ok to start trying different things to settle her back to sleep, or to let her settle herself. For us feeding worked better anyways. It's incredibly frustrating when you're exhausted and trying to rock a baby to sleep for an hour at 3 am and they won't have it. I could nurse my son back to sleep within 10 or 15 minutes, even without co sleeping. The first time your baby sleeps 8 hours you will be waking up before them, scared something happened. Lol
7. I think at 10 weeks she still needs to be fed every three or four hours (i cant recall with my bub, but its pretty close to 3-4 hours.) with my bub it was: 6pm ish 10pm ish 2pm ish 5pmish and so on. she was every 4 hours most of the time coz she was on formula and this is slower for your bub to digest than breast milk are you feeding her long enough at each feed? or giving her enough? and dont worry about the teaching them to settle without bottle or breast, they will eventually learn with alittle of yor guidance but i personally think that its your choice if you want to settle with a feed, i did it, and still do from time to time and my bub is 10 months. youll learn your bubs habits soon and will know for sure exactly whats bugging her but continue the feeding for now i would say, i think that around 4 months you can space the feedins out more. i read soooo many books on babies, sometimes its not the best thing coz i end up comparing everything against my baby which is sooo wrong coz as we all know every bub is different and will not always match what book says, go with your own instinct from time to time, youll gain more confidence as a mother and yeah there will be days when you will be wrong with something you do, but hey, we live and learn. hope it helps
8. My triplets are 11 months and have been sleeping 12 hours straight since 12 weeks.. If you think she is waking out of habit not hunger you can cut her feedings... one of my guys just ate cause everyone else was eating lol.. so I cut back his feedings in ounces or minutes if I was breast feeding.. I cut his bottle from 6 to 3 ounce and eventually *over a few nights* quit waking up for this rip off a feeding... but I knew he wasn't hungry and was just waking because the other two babies were.. I found that the easiest way to drop a feeding..
9. My son is 12 weeks old and sleeps from about 10pm to 6am. He did not start doing this until my husband and I began giving him a bath every night (he is very gassy and the bath seems to help get it out), feeding him and then swaddling him before we lay him down. He seems to like being swaddled so he isn't startled awake. When he used to wake up all night every night I would always feed him too because it seemed to be what he wanted and then he would be settled enough to go back to sleep. You could find other ways to sooth her like rocking, singing, or a massage but it may just delay the feeding because if she wants food, she is going to be awake and crying until she gets it. (well, at least that is how my little hungry baby is!) Hang in there I am sure your little one will eventually let you get a full nights sleep! :)