what is considered STTN at 7.5 months old?

[natashalil]

Is it a certain number of hours, or certain hours of the night? thanks!

[Skadiver13]

Hi Hun I honestly don't remember but I would say as long as your lo is going at least 4hrs between feeds at this age and not waking early then that is technically SSTN. But I think what you are asking is it's usually certain number of hours like 6hrs is considered SSTN I believe.

[Khalam's Mama]

At that I would say 10hrs. What are you getting?

[Skadiver13]

Really 10hrs was almost my lo's whole night and he was still waking for 2 feeds at 8 months.

[Khalam's Mama]

I guess it depends on your view, I would say a baby waking for 2 feeds was not sleeping through though would you? I am not saying all 7 mo will sleep 10 hrs, some will wake for a feed but if I was getting that I would say they were sleeping through. I was basing that on the average amount of sleep sticky.

[Skadiver13]

I guess it's just a different view of SSTN

[natashalil]

hi all thanks for your answers

knock on wood - what we have been getting for the last three weeks is bed time between 7:45 at 8, then he rouses at 4 and settles himself (we dont go in), then he is up and I BF at 4:45 or 5. Then most times he falls asleep for another 1-1.5 hours.

does this count as STTN?


Another question - is there a "Deadline" for when you should be getting your LO to STTN, before the window for learning has passed - in our prenatal class they told us we had to have it figured out by the 1 year mark, or you run the risk of them always sleeping poorly, but i hvent read that anywhere at asll

 

[Skadiver13]

To me yes that is but I don't consider waking for a feed to be NOT sleeping TTN if that makes sense.  That is age appropriate so I consider it STTN. But yes I would say once they drop night feeds (mine was 10 months old) then I would think they should be SSTN with no wakings for 10.5-12hrs. But even when we do "figure" it out something changes LOL. Growth spurts, night terrors, nap dropping all of which may cause Night wakings.  If your lo is happy during the day and getting a good amount of sleep at night I wouldn't worry what your parenting class said. No they wont always sleep poorly even if we didn't figure it out.

[Khalam's Mama]

Whether you call that sttn will vary greatly on who you speak to, even on here. I do think that is a decent night for a 7.5mo though. If you are not doing a dream feed esp. I think babies who are still waking past 1 yo are still able to sleep ok. That is still quite  little. Personally I think of sttn as having all night sleep in one block, the stirring and settling at 4am I would ignore in terms of sttn as babies do wake in the night, the difference is whether they need something to go back off I feel. My ds2 didn't sttn until 18mo but he sttn and has consistently stopped ew now from probably 2.5yo. My ds1 wasn't doing as well as that at 7.5 not sttn from bt To wu until 9mo but is a star sleeper these days. So I think it is more complicated than that and I think sometimes it is beyond parenting and inherrant.

[Layla]

I would consider anything between 4-6hrs as sttn and we still had up to 2 night wakings at that age with approx 11-12hrs of sleep. Some nights she would wake only once and some nights none. She didn't start sttn without any feeds until around 9 months.

I agree with KM - it is more complicated than what they will tell you at the parenting class and I would consider what you're son is doing as sttn