I should start by saying this is meant to be lighthearted, and of course I am delighted for all the parents getting all the sleep...
However... my DS, at 11 months, is showing no sign of sleeping through the night, and its starting to feel like he never will. I've spoken to two mums at playgroup this morning who breezily chatted about how their 10-week-olds slept 8pm-6am, and I was doing the smile and nod whilst internally screaming/sobbing. We've struggled with a dairy allergy and eczema, which are both much better now, but he wakes every 1-2 hours at the minute, wanting a feed, or his dummy back in, or a cuddle, or to just get comfy. Me and DH are starting to take on the look of zombies. Now before it's mentioned, I've no intention of sleep training, but I was hoping for some solidarity moaning from other similarly sleep deprived parents! How often does your baby wake? How are you coping? Are you planning to try to do something about it, or just ride it out and hope it gets better?!
AIBU?
To be slightly irritated by parents whose babies sleep through the night
InMemoryOfSleep · 12/05/2017 13:04
If it's any consolation I had two DC who sleptt through from quite early and I thought I knew what I was doing until...enter stage right: DC3 the amazing non-sleeping baby . At 5 he still wakes up in the night occasionally. Cured me of any smugness it's pure luck whether you get a sleeper or not.
Yes it is massively irritating
My DS didn't sleep through until he was about 3 and a half. Now even as an adult he suffers from insomnia. I couldn't stand the smug 'mine slept through at ten weeks' folk.
Then I had DD and she slept through at ten weeks and I became one of the smug ones Mind you it took a lot of getting used to - because of my experience with DS I kept going to her in the night and poking her to check she was OK because I was so weirded out by having a baby who slept
Ok so if it's wind he will fart without your help. 
The more you go in and the more you do the more he will see night waking as being rewarded
Some children are born sleepers, some achieve sleepiness and others have sleep thrust upon them.
Dd1 slept 12 hours from 8 weeks. Never woke less than 12 hours and would sometimes go to 14 hours. She also slept 3 hours in the afternoon.
So when dd2 came along I did exactly the same. She was given medised (now banned) at 18 months because her idea of sleeping was around 8-10, 11-1 (or 2 on a good night) then party til about 4am.
Medised is the most wonderful stuff. 1/4 teaspoon and she slept 12 hours. It was partially habit though as I think I gave it to her two nights running, then she slept 10 hours usually. If she had a week of beginning to wake at silly times then I'd give her medised for one night and she'd go back to sleeping properly.
Ds I tried to do the same routine as dd1. He was a morning person though, so it didn't really work. I'd be desperately trying to keep him awake for another couple of hours at 5pm so he wasn't up too early in the morning.
He wasn't a bad sleeper when he didn't have an ear infection or tummy ache from the antibiotics. Unfortunately he had an ear infection every 10 days from around 10 weeks old until grommets at 20 months. So he'd sleep okay on day 1. Day 2-4 in pain from ear infection and more awake than asleep. Day 3 waking with pain about every 2 hours. Day 4 he'd start tummy ache from the antibiotics and again spend most of the time awake until he finished them on day 7-8.
He'd then sleep well for day 9-10...
I think he'd have been a sleeper like dd1 if he hadn't had ear pain.
My DD (5) still wakes up sometimes now & didn't sleep through until 13 months. She was worse when I went back to work at 11.5 months, she would wake up loads more on a Sunday night because she bloody knew I was at work the next day 
@Wecks that's it exactly - I feel like they know something I don't! Or I'm just a crap mum and totally cocking it up! We were hopeful that eliminating dairy would solve things, and it has massively improved his wind, but it still seems to be an issue. He's also been teething which has been miserable so not helped matters. Thank you for the advice all, and a 
for all the parents in the same boat (thank you for making me feel less shit!)
My DS has just turned one and still wakes 1-2 hourly for boob.. I think I've just got used to to lack of sleep and semi-function but then he had a 'bad night'
and it's breaks me..
we already cosleep and he refuses all dummies and comforters so just praying better sleep is round the corner..everyone says it get better after then turn 1 right..?
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@MiddleagedManic thank you, that's incredibly kind of you to be so supportive, you brought a tear to me eye 
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