How early do they start sleeping through?

[cat811]

By that I mean not waking up between 3-5 ish for a night feed. Ds is 10 weeks and showing no signs of not needing this one - but all the other babies in my NCT group seem to sleep from 11-7 already. Are they lying, or is ds unusual?!

[CharCharGabor]

DD slept 12-9 from about 12 weeks I think. Stopped at 15 weeks and hasn't slept through since! (16 months now) They all do it in their own time.

[littleboyblue]

I know a few people whose dc's slept through from 7 weeks!!
Mine was about 4/5 months. But that was because I stopped feeding or he'd probably still do it.
10 weeks is very young to expect any different I'm afraid, and your ds is very, very normal.

[chloemegjess]

Any time from 2 weeks to 2 years really! My DD now doesn't wake up, as long as we bring her a bottle when we go to bed (about 11pm) but she is nearly 1! She certainly still needed it at 10 weeks and at that stage was waking up lots of times in the night. Take no notice of what the other children are doing. Some are problably lying, but it can happen at 10 weeks. It often changes though so those whos babies sleep though now might get a shock when they start waking again, and they will be out of the habit so probably feel worse.

[Seona1973]

dd was 5 1/2 months and ds was 8 months before they slept through from maybe 8pm to 6.30am

[IdrisTheDragon]

DS was about 3 months.

DD was about 2.5 years

[nickytwotimes]

All the mum's who boasted of their los sleeping through at an early age (at my post-natal group) weren't so smug several months later when they no longer did for one reason or another.

Often, things are exagerated too.

10 weeks and one feed sounds pretty good to me.

I reckon from my own and my friends' experience that 6mths-18 mths is normal.

[nickytwotimes]

and btw, my ds was 6 mths.

I fully expect any others to be later!

[nickytwotimes]

OMG!

Please excuse my apostrophe in Mums.

[lovelymama]

Agree with nicky...most people say 'my baby sleep 7 til 7' but forget to mention that they cried a few times in the night and they had to go in to soothe them/bring up wind. I felt so bad that my DS wasn't sleeping through when all other babies were but recently found out that my idea of sleeping through was completely different to theirs.

[moomaa]

DD slept 7 - 7 with no waking from about 8 weeks. Life was lovely and I suspect I was smug. I am now feeding 2 or 3 times a night with no end in sight. She is 5 months and started waking again about 4 months.

[HeadFairy]

Mine didn't manage it til 7 months, and then it was 7-7 (with a dreamfeed at 11pm, but that was for me, to keep bfing going once I'd returned to work, the occasions I didn't do the dream feed he still did 7-7)

[Craftynap]

My dd is 2.3 and has slept through (ie 7 - 5.30) once. I don't think there is a 'normal' to be honest! sorry.....

[MrsBadger]

dd was a fab sleeper until 4m when it all went tits up and she was up every 45min all night, every night

now she is 15m and I am counting 'slept through' as 'didn't wake between midnight and 6am'

we are in double figures now [proud]

[ChukkyPig]

About 6m I think. But I have always considered DD to be a v good sleeper - i know plenty of babies who are not sleeping though at 18m+ and am girding myself for the next one to be like that!

[expo]

How long is a piece of string!!! Mine were both 6-7 mths when they started sleeping through. I thought that was really late. Then someone said to me - wow you were lucky. These babies may be sleeping through at 12 weeks but they could be waking again at 6mths when going through a growth spurt.