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Do girls sleep through earlier than boys?

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TerrifiedMothertobe · 17/07/2014 21:18

My first son was 10 months old before he'd do 10-7 and my second son, 7.5 momths is currently on two feeds. Around 11.30 and 3.30.

My friends with girls seem to sleep through so much earlier.

I know all children are different, but any trends?

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Rumandcokeplease · 17/07/2014 21:20

I have a two year old dd and a 10 month old dd and neither of them sleep through consistently yet! They both sleep through about 50% of the time (but not the same 50%!).

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Rumandcokeplease · 17/07/2014 21:21

When I say 'sleep through' I mean 7pm-7am!! They both only wake once!

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micah · 17/07/2014 21:21

Yes they do. Their vaginas exude a special sleep chemical*

*no they don't. Nothing to do with gender, more to do with ff vs. bf, activity levels, weaning stage, and downright luck.

If it helps, dd1 was 9 months, after I switched her from bf to ff. dd2 was 14m, again after giving up bf. It's still not unusual for her to wake and come into us even now, at 6.

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NickNacks · 17/07/2014 21:21

No my boys were 9 and 10 weeks respectively, my daughter was 2.5yrs!

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NormHonal · 17/07/2014 21:22

I've got a DD and a DS and each was as bad as each other - didn't sleep through regularly until over 2.5yo.

Anecdotally I know a few boys who slept through early on.

From recollections of previous bad-sleeper threads on here, you get the odd mother of twins reporting that one sleeps well, the other doesn't. So the magic answer seems to be: it's down to dumb luck.

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BuildYourOwnSnowman · 17/07/2014 21:22

ha ha ha ha ha ha

No. DS slept though 7-7 by 10 months.

DD just before her 4th birthday

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flowery · 17/07/2014 21:23

My two boys were going 7-7 with an 11pm dreamfeed at 10 weeks and 12 weeks. I really think it's pure luck.

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MrTumblesBavarianFanbase · 17/07/2014 21:24

No.

Dd was 2 (years, almost to the day)

DS1 was 7 months

DS2 still doesn't reliably, and is 3.3 (years, but he's a lot better than he used to be).

So although my worst sleeper was/ is a boy, so is my best. After DD I thought DS1 was some kind of amazing chilled text book baby, only waking roughly 3 hourly for feeds, then going through so early. After DS2 I look back on DD's sleep as kind of OK, and DS1's as luxuriously miraculous :o

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bruffin · 17/07/2014 21:25

I have a ds and dd who arenow im late teens but they both slept through from 12 weeks. Ds was bf at the time and dd was ff.

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MirandaWest · 17/07/2014 21:26

DS slept through at about 3 months.

DD slept through at about 2 years and 3 months

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TenMinutesEarly · 17/07/2014 21:28

Dd slept through at 14 weeks

Ds was 11 weeks

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purpleroses · 17/07/2014 21:34

My DD slept though slightly better - she didn't grow quite as fast as DS so I think he got hungrier and needed to wake to feed more. DS is 14 now and has rediscovered his baby habit of waking up late at night with a rumbly tummy demanding feeding Grin But he is growing really fast again!

But think it's more luck and whether your bf or ff. If you really need a good night's sleep I found I needed to give a bottle at bedtime. They just didn't get as full of end-of-the day bf

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chutneypig · 17/07/2014 21:35

I have b/g twins. DS slept through a few weeks before his sister. I'd suspect it was down to him being bigger, he was 3.5 lb heavier at birth and always needed a feed less than her, because he drank more at each feed that she did. They were both sleeping through by 12 weeks.

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upyourninja · 17/07/2014 21:36

My daughter didn't sleep through at all until 23 months Confused

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mrsspagbol · 17/07/2014 21:36

Dd 10 months - A LOOOOOONG time coming!

Don't have a ds (yet).

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Ragwort · 17/07/2014 21:42

My DS slept through at 8 months (and only woke once between 7pm-7am for a quick feed from day 7 Grin) - my friend's daughters still don't sleep through - they are nearly at secondary school age !

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Hulababy · 17/07/2014 21:43

DD didn't sleep through til 20 months old - and only then because we did a form of CC to try and break the cycle.

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starlight1234 · 17/07/2014 21:43

Reading this thread if we are counting 7-7 as sleeping throught my 7 year old never made it Confused

He slept from age 4 without broken sleep but still was a very early riser.

He still will wake early but is old enough to occuyt himself now

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playftseforme · 17/07/2014 21:49

My dd slept through at 3.5 mths, my boy dts slept through at 2.5mths. I put the fact that the boy dts slept through earlier down to us having more conviction in what we were doing at bed time and being more consistent.

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TerrifiedMothertobe · 17/07/2014 22:36

Ok, phew. So there is no SCIENCE!

I'm personally jot convicted it's food related either, purely developmental/ baby related.

Ds1 was average size and took until 10 months to do 10pm unto. 7 am and then 7-7 followed about a 'onto later.

Ds2 is massive in comparison but still wakes around 1130 thinking his throat has been slit, desperate, but then the 330 feed is not so hungry, but wants it.

I wish he'd bloody sleep, work soon and although ds1 was. Dream sleeper for half his life, he s
Wakes at 5am in the summer......

Sleep time for me!

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MrTumblesBavarianFanbase · 18/07/2014 06:41

Starlight mine have never had the chance to do 7-7, as we have to be up at 6.15 :o

Medically 5 unbroken hours counts as sleeping through.

Colloquially its bedtime to whatever getting up time parents deem morning I guess - for me I counted it as sleeping through once they did 7.30pm - 5am. All mine have got up around 5-5.30am (regardless of what time they go to bed, blackput blinds etc) til around age 5-6, then slowly started sleeping til 6ish after that age.

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pinkmagic1 · 18/07/2014 07:13

DS slept through at 6 weeks but DD was 18 months!

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LizzieMint · 18/07/2014 07:16

Dd1 slept through at 10 weeks. DS was 2. Dd2 was 2.5!
Sad

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plentyofshoes · 18/07/2014 22:52

Ds was a dream at night.
Dd not so much.
Ds was a complete nightmare to feed.
Dd was easy.
Who knows!?!

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