MY BOY SLEPT ALL NIGHT!!
It took just over 13 months, and there's no guarantee that he'll repeat the performance, but last night, for the first time EVER, my boy slept through the night. We put him down at 7:30pm, and he decided that he was ready for the day at 5:50am this morning.
I swore that I'd never like getting up before 6am (who am I kidding? I don't like getting up before 10...), but this morning, I was more than happy to. I had honestly forgotten what it feels like to actually sleep through the entire night. I don't even know what to do with myself; I dropped the boy off at daycare and danced a little jig on the way back to the car. 
Man. Life doesn't get much better than this. Unless he sleeps for two nights...
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That's probably because he was in the whiskey cabinet at six last night.
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As I'm falling asleep at my computer right now due to lack of sleep, I envy you...
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Man, I'll never forget that feeling. I think my son first slept through the night at around 6 months. My daughter was sleeping like a champ at 12 weeks. We were pretty spoiled that time around.
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It is indeed deep fried awesome when that starts hapenning. We were very lucky with number 2, but with number one, it's been a constant battle. She's 8. She STILL wakes us up in the middle of the night once in a while. Luckily we've whittled the actual bedtime routine down to about 90 seconds, so that almost makes up for it.
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That is a good feeling. My 2 year old has her good nights and her bad ones. It's slanted more towards good now, but I don't think I've slept past 7:00AM (including weekends) in over two years.
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I hear these stories and I thank tiny, swaddling, infant Jesus that our daughter slept through the night at 7 weeks. In the almost 5 years since there have been a handful of glitches -- each one driving a frosty dagger straight into my ventricle as I reason that it's the beginning of paybacks for our earlier luck -- but so far they've resolved themselves in a few days. I empathize, I'm a bear to deal with normally so I'm a syphilitic bear with hemorrhoids and a migraine when my sleep is compromised.
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Dances a jig with Chumps. My 9 month old does pretty well when healthy. But man oh man do I remember the waking up in the middle of the night. To compound the problem, I can not go back to sleep once awake so I sometime get only a couple hours of sleep, go help my little guy then start my work day. Those are long work days.
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My wife panicked when she woke up that morning. She lazily rolled over and looked at the clock, then shot up out of bed and ran, like only a petrified mother could, all the way to our daughter's room.
Then she walked back in, and the smiles broke out.
Hope you get night two, and lots more.
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Our 12 month old is making progress. 1 in 5 he'll sleep until 5 or so. Boy is that great.
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I wish I knew if that was it; I'd stock up.
You know, I've thought about liquoring him up, but with my luck, he'd wake up in the middle of the night with a hangover. It'd be a damn sketch comedy bit:
1-year-old thinks: *Man, this headache sucks.*
1-year-old says: WAHHH!!!
Thinks: *Oh crap, my head! Stop yelling!*
Says: WAHHH!!!
Thinks: *Oh man, shut that yowling kid up!*
Says: WAHHH!!!
Rinse and repeat. It'd be like an SNL skit; overly long repetition of a joke that wasn't that funny to begin with....
Don't you understand, Cliff? We put a chainsaw on a machine gun! That's it! It doesn't get more awesome than that! We've peaked, man! We've peaked! - ctrl-alt-del on Gears of War 2
When my son first started sleeping through the night (around 8 weeks or so, we were lucky) my wife would go in and poke him until he woke up, just to be sure he was still breathing.
Now he wakes up at least once a night and won't go down until he gets into bed with us (he's almost 2).
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There is a Nip/Tuck episode featuring "baby-tinis." Season 2 or 3 I think. Before I had to stop watching.
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Hmm. Weird coincidence, as my 14-month old daughter woke up in the middle of the night for the first time in 7 months last night. With a scream that scared the crap out of me that sounded like me playing Fatal Frame II. I think it was her first real nightmare. Took me five minutes to get her calmed down, then, of course, I couldn't go back to sleep.
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This thread is like Internet Birth Control.
I like sleep.
Fedaykin98 wrote:
My daughter was pre-made... She was 7 months old when I met her mom. And already sleeping through the night. I really hate that I missed the first 7 months. And as much hell as it probably is, I can't wait to experience them on our next lil un.
Edit...
Actually my daughter, (22 months) was able to climb out of her crib about a month ago. So we got her a Toddler bed. Ever since then she has difficulties getting to sleep. We were able to just put her in her crib and she would go to sleep on her own. Now we actually have to rock her to sleep before she will stay in her bed all night. More often than not she gets up and tries to get out of her door, which she fails to do and ends up on the floor behind the door... where we have to struggle to get the door open to put her back in her bed.
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Kudos! Hopefully it will last we had a few hiccups with our 20month old (he was 12-13months at the time) getting to sleeping through the night and periodically we do have to do some back rubbing/cooing after a nightmare.
We're just now getting to the point where our son doesn't even need to get rocked to sleep. We sit in the lazy boy rocker for about a minute of his moving around uncomfortable before we say, "Want to move to your bed?" to which he nods and we tuck him in, kiss him goodnight and get the F out.
Which is good because now kid#2 (daughter #1) we've broken even on the population balance and are done) will be here by the end of month and I want the boy to be in as good a routine as can be before we go adding to the mix.
That's really the whole secret at their age, routine, routine, routine.
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Broken even? What did you do? Kill two people?
"Men like sex, thus boobies! Oogaba!" - dejanzie
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come on down to Rat Boy's nest!
light up a stogie, and soon you'll see
how rock can be commercial-free!
'I'd hit it!'" - HP Lovesauce
FINISH HIM!
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No silly. He killed four people.
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Oh...wow. I guess I was incredibly lucky with my boys then. Both slept through the night pretty much from the get-go. Except for the occasional feeding, they slept pretty much solid through the night. My youngest isn't 2 yet and he will come up to me and let you know he is ready for bed (usually 8pm or so) and sleep till around 6 am.
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lunabean wrote:The bedtime routine was always something I knew I would drag out because I enjoyed it so much. When my girls were little, I would rock them and sing to them every single night until they refused to do it any more. I knew it wouldn't last forever and it seems like it was over in a flash, but there's nothing I wouldn't give to relive just one of those nights.
CONGRATULATIONS! from a grandma about to give up sleeping thru the nite with a new granddaughter due any day now. And honestly, while I am extremely happy to have her coming, I wish her mom wasn't staying here for the first 6 weeks
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Wait - you and your wife have been playing earplug tag team haven't you? For 8 years my wife and I have lived under the mantra that there is never a reason for both parents to be awake unless there's a hospital trip in the offing.
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God, I'm jealous of these people with sleepy offspring. My daughter is 8 weeks old today, arrived 4 weeks early, so has only just hit average birth weight. She hasn't slept for more than 3 hours in one go yet. It's nearly 4am as I type this, and I have been looking after her since 6, when I got home from an 11 hour day at work.
You know what? Instead of typing to stay awake, I'm going to give her to my wife. The lazy mare has had 8 weeks to recover from a c-section and blood pressure high enough to to make her arteries whistle. It's not like it's major abdominal surgery or anything!
Seriously though, I'm constantly overawed by Mrs_j's ability to cope with this. Mind you, having the prettiest little girl in the world helps!
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My wife wakes up badly; I wake up reasonably well. My wife has real problems falling asleep; I fall asleep in less time than it takes me to say that I'm falling asleep. I get up in the middle of the night with the boy unless he needs to eat. If I'm doing well, she doesn't even wake up unless we need her.
So, both of us are rarely awake; I get up more frequently, and she tends to up longer. It all works out in the end.
Don't you understand, Cliff? We put a chainsaw on a machine gun! That's it! It doesn't get more awesome than that! We've peaked, man! We've peaked! - ctrl-alt-del on Gears of War 2
Seriously. Just in case I was starting to think kids were cute or anything, the Internet sets me back on the right course.
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Congrats. By the way, this is probably a one time thing. Wait til they wake up screaming their damn heads off for literally no reason.
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It's all totally worth it though. 3 days of pre-eclampsyia panic, a c-section, no sleep for 2 months so far, expenditure into the thousands, limited gaming and a fight with work about paternity leave, but I wouldn't trade any of it.
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Thank God I'm single, and -hopefully- have no kids. I'd be the sort of parent that would run into the room panicked, then get pissed off when I realized there was nothing wrong.
"You think that's funny, huh?! Well just wait another sixteen years. I'll start punching you awake for no reason whatsoever."
Yet even then we ran like the wind,
whilst our laughter echoed under cerulean skies...