I'm back after being nomail for months.  Just to add yet another comment on
this discussion.  My understanding as a nurse is that the risk of
hypoglycemia is primarily in the newborn period.  Anyone know anything
different?

Now, as a mother.  My daughter slept 7-8 hours at a month.  By two months she
was sleeping 11 hours.  No, I'm not remembering wrong.  In fact, in my
mothers' group there were a couple of other totally breastfed babies who did
the same.  Having said that, I realize that the majority of babies do not do
this, and our cultural presentation of it as the norm does a great disservice
to the majority of moms and babies.  My daughter, however, was perfectly
normal, as were her friends.  And, at around 5 months, she started waking up
again and continued to wake about twice a night until around age 2 1/2.  This
is also a normal occurrence.  All kinds of theories about why previously
long-sleeping babies often start waking up again around this age.  (This
could start a whole other discussion!) My son, on the other hand, never slept
anything like through the night until 2 1/2 or 3.  In my years as  a La Leche
League Leader, I saw a wide range of normal variations in sleep patterns
among normal babies.  Now it may be true, as Kathy Dettwyler says, that this
may be a reason to look at the baby a little more carefully, but it is in
fact a variant of normal and if the baby looks good in every other way, "if
it ain't broke, don't fix it."  Miriam Levitt RN, IBCLC

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