So when did your baby go 6 hours at night?

[Heatherbell1978]

DS1 is 10 wks today and is going a very consistent 4 hours between feeds at night. Down at 7.30pm, awake at 11.30/12, feed, awake at 3.30/4am, feed, awake at 6.30/7am. He's good, he'll take a feed and then settle straight back to sleep but he's been doing this for about 5 weeks and I guess I'm waiting for something to change.... We actually had a few 5/6 hour stretches when he was 4 weeks and thought we'd hit the jackpot but that lasted a couple of nights. And then at 6 weeks he started going to 12.30am....but we're back at 11.30pm. He's breastfed and a good weight, on 50th centile.

[MirandaWest]

DS was about 12 weeks.

DD was about 2.5 years.

Good thing DS was the first child really

[Rtfairy]

I think DD was about 10 weeks. Unfortunately though, now at 11 months old I count myself very lucky if we get a 6 hour stretch.

[fertilityFTW]

Not happened yet. DD1 is 18mths.

[Squtternutbaush]

DS was 2.5 years and DD was 16 months.

They are 8 and 20 months now and still don't seem to need much sleep :(

[PinkAndBlueBedtimeScares]

Every child is so different, dd at 4 weeks, and ds at 5 weeks

[lemonpoppyseed]

DD is 16 weeks. We had a few long stretches during her 14th/15th week and are now back to two/three hourly wake ups.

[Stupidhead]

My first slept for 6 hours the first time on Christmas Eve/morning. It was the best sleep I've ever had and a great present! He was 10 weeks.

[TeaandHobnobs]

DS did it about twice around 4 months (2 months corrected). He then did it again once at 9 months. And once at 14 months.
He started reliably sleeping through soon after he turned 2

[mrshope]

Pah! I dream of 4hr stretches and my DS is 16weeks.
Depends on your luck it seems!
Hang in there xxx

[mrsmugoo]

I think about 4 or 5 months before he would go that long!

He's almost 8 months now and is just dropping his last 5am feed and sleeping through now.

Sorry but at 10 weeks you've still got plenty of broken sleep to come yet!

[milkingmachine1]

At about 1 year. DD sleeps well now (18months) but it took a long old time to get there. She was also breastfed and on the 50th centile.

[miniHovis]

ds1 3 years
ds2 8 weeks
Dd1 12 weeks

and Dd2 is 8 weeks and has been sleeping 6 hours at night from 4/5 weeks

all depends on the baby, each of mine all had the exact same routine and as you can see each is different

[vichill]

Still not at 16 months.

[Gen35]

Can't remember with dc1, I think it was definitely by 8 months. Dc2 does every now and again at 3 weeks

[GoldfishSpy]

DS1 8 months
DS2 12 weeks
DS3 is now 10 weeks and consistently going 7-8pm - 4am
I feel almost human....

[minkymuskyslyoldstoaty]

dd was about 3 years!

[Cakeismymaster]

Dd was doing 6/7 hour stretches at 10 weeks...then 12 weeks happened and it was never repeated (every 2 hours from then on) until last week, age 13 months
Bf and 85th centile
(Stopped bf 7 days ago..slept through for first time 5 days ago)

[hollie84]

DS1, 6 hours soon after birth, 8 hours between 8 weeks and 18 weeks and then... not again until 2.5 years

DS2, 6 hours without a feed from 6 months (but still woke). Sometimes does 6-8 hour stretches now at 8 months.

[photocop]

DC1 approx 8 months.
DC2 approx 18 months.

[leelteloo]

Dd it was 3.5 long years and at 5 she still wakes most nights.
Ds1 was at about 6 months, brill sleeper.
Ds2 total nightmare and still has not slept longer than 4 hours at 9 months.
Yawn bloody yawn

[pookamoo]

3 years and counting (DD2) ...

Try not to worry about it, OP.

[ThinkIveBeenHacked]

DD was 8 weeks - started while we were on holiday. She had a sleep regression at four months but then once past that she was then doing 7-7. Til the next regression hit....

[MsAdorabelleDearheartVonLipwig]

Dd1 about six months, coincidently as we started feeding her solids.

Dd2 about eight weeks. Was bliss.

[RunningOutOfIdeas]

DD1 was 2 years before she consistently slept anything close to 6 hours.

DD2 did it at 2 days. We were still in hospital and I woke up at night, realised it had been that long since her last feed, panicked and checked that she was still breathing, then thought YES I have a child that sleeps. In the morning she started looking yellow and we realised she was so sleepy due to jaundice.

DD2 is actually a much better sleeper than DD1 is. I think it just luck though (she also does more spectacular tantrums so not all good).

[Heatherbell1978]

Thanks all, sounds like I have a long way to go....typically last night was the worst night for a while. DH gave him a bottle of formula before bed (something we'd like to do as routine to give me a break) and it may be a coincudence but he had a bad nights sleep:-(