STTN=Sleeping Thru The Night

My response to a fellow mom whose baby is not yet STTN on one of the parenting message boards i read religiously every day:

i feel your pain...my SB just turned 3 months this week and in our eyes he's pretty much STTN. He goes to bed (after a bath and a story) around 7 or 8 but still wakes up around 11 or 12, drinks a bottle and quickly goes back to sleep til about 4:30, is up, drinks again, goes back to sleep for another couple of hours. So even though he's not technically sleeping through the night, this has been his longest stretch of sleep so we're actually relieved to get more than 2 hours of sleep at a time now.

Now, the only reason he has been able to finally get this "long" 4-5 hour stretch is because of an ingenious simple change that DH did. Something you may already be doing but is something I NEVER would have thought to do. DH put him to bed one night, as soon as baby started to calm down and yawn in his crib, he TURNED OFF THE LIGHTS with only the night light on. And SB was OUT for his longest stretch EVER. When DH told me what he had done, we tried the same thing the next night, and it worked AGAIN! I felt like a total dork and was ecstatic at the same time. I always assumed the baby would want some light on so he wouldn't be afraid, alone in the dark. My point is the smallest change can make the biggest difference. SB has been sleeping well at night ever since that tiniest of changes. So, i suggest talking it over with your DH even if he's not there at night because he may think of something that you may not have even considered.

GL!


MMBL (Mommy Message Board Lingo, i totally made this one up):
GL: Good Luck!
STTN=Sleeping Thru The Night
SB=Sun Baby, i.e., the nickname this board has for our July Babies, hehe!
DH=Dear Husband