Does 5am count?

[jethrien]

Yesterday, ARR managed the back-to-front roll (also distressing, apparently.)

He went to bed around quarter to nine last night. At 5am he was whimpering and squirming in his sleep a bit (and I was in a lot of discomfort for not having pumped enough over the night) so I woke him the rest of the way up to eat. He went back down immediately and is still asleep now.

Does that count as having slept through the night?

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[momerath4.livejournal.com]

Hmm, 8:45pm to 5am is 8 hours 15 minutes. Sounds like a full night's sleep to me! (And wow, does that sound nice). Does the sleep whimpering die down as they get older? We're getting a ton of it right now and it's making it really hard to sleep when the baby is sleeping...

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Well, it was a fluke--he hasn't repeated the feat yet. (But he's usually up only once a night now, so it's not so bad.)

He goes in and out of cycles of whimpering over the course of the night. I suspect it tracks with REM sleep. But we don't have him in the same room--we've got a two bedroom, so he's in the room next to us with the doors open so it doesn't bother us so much. He refuses to nap in his crib, though--only in his swing or his stroller. And I don't want to nap with him in one of those in a different room, so the whimpering really does interfere with my own attempts to catch up on sleep over the course of the day.

Different babies are different, though--no clue what your little guy will end up doing, I'm afraid.