At what age did your baby/ child regularly sleep through the night?

Three months one and a bit later - maybe four months - then second. By through I mean down at 7.30, sleepy feed at 11pm, then thru til 6am or later. Fully through the night from seven months or so.

I would say that 'slept through' means very different things to different people.

I have heard it used by people whose babies waoke for a feed and went straight back to sleep, so they woke at eg 1 am and 4 am, but because they went back to sleep it was called sleeping through!

All mine had a late night feed at 10 pm (ish) until older. I was fine with that because it meant that I could then sleep from my bedtime until morning.

10 weeks for both DD and DS.
Gina babies both.

I don't have children.

According to my parents I slept through the night while my mum was still in the maternity hospital.

A elative came to visit on a weekend morning and couldn't believe they were having a lie in.

As in reliably sleep 12 hours unless ill:

DD 10 months (breastfed, never woke more than 3 times in the night beforehand)
DS 18 months (bottle fed woke every hour or two until this point)

Omg I jinxed it, my 8 year old woke up during the night for the first time in years last night after I commented she had slept through from 6 months! 😫

My DS was 6 months old

My first woke every 90 minutes or more until he was one, then went down to about one wake a night until he was four, when he finally started sleeping through.

My baby is currently sleeping through at 2 months but I don’t expect that to last beyond the four month sleep maturation.

Solidarity - it’s hell.

I always tried to put my babies to bed awake and they were then able to fall asleep on their own, I think it helped a bit.

My second son, 4, my daughter, 10!

DC1 5 months
DC2 18 months
DC3 2 years

DC1 lulled us into a false sense of security 😁

DC1 still doesn’t sleep through the night at 6, but he at least stays in his own bed and puts an audiobook on to go back to sleep to. He was 3.5 before he stopped waking us up in the night.

DC2 reliably slept 5+ hours from birth, and slept through fairly reliably 8-7ish from just under 2.

DD- 4 years
DS - he is 7 and still wakes up once a night 🙄

Oh and i didn't feed either of mine to sleep and did a bit of gentle sleep training/good sleep habits so no dummies, putting them down awake. We were more consistent with DS on routine & sleep habits than we were with DD.

Neither of mine ever did this waking every 90mins thing after the newborn stage. If DD woke at night as a toddler it was just once at like 3am needing a wee, or at 9pm having a nightmare etc.

DS1: 10 years DS2: 4 months

DS - about 16 weeksold but consistently from about 6 months. Exclusively breastfed, fed loads in the day & just didn't wake for it at night! He has always slept like a log.

DD... did it a bit from about 10m but always inconsistent. She just got gradually better and better until she was about 3. She didnt need a lot from us but would stir & fuss because she needed the loo or had nightmares. She was also ill more than DS for various reasons which impacted her sleep. She's a lighter sleeper generally

3 months and in their own room

12 months. But we did sleep training.
I don’t think any of my friends who didn’t sleep train have children who sleep through the night (at 3yo now).

We’re only just there now with our 17.5 month old sleeping through most nights this week.

We’ve done some very gentle sleep training from 10 months as I’m not a fan of the “cry it out” method. Our “gentle” method was going in to her room when she cries to breastfeed, cuddle and sing to her, then leaving for a minute or two back in the cot then going in again if she cried and repeat for as long as it takes. I guess the result of the gentle method is a child who took nearly 1.5 years to sleep through!

We definitely did not do any form of controlled crying & honestly they didn’t cry much as babies because with GF routine you pre-empt hunger/tiredness & so you tend to know what the issue is (depending on the time of day). It’s not for everyone as you get tied down by nap times & have to set an alarm to make sure you get them up on time. But it really does work.

I loved mine as babies but wasn’t really up for sleepless nights so it was important to me that they slept.

Years ago Mums were told to follow a routine & I doubt back in the 70s 80s you had 5 year olds who still wouldn’t sleep the night. I think it’s also much better for the baby/toddler if they have slept well, otherwise they are going to be grumpy & difficult to deal with all day.

Normal IMO.

Age 3-4, DD was sleeping OK more often than not e.g. 4 or 5 nights a week, with some tossing turning, getting up for wees, needing to have an adult to resettle her.

Age 5 before I went to bed expecting I would sleep through amd that's she would probably resettle herself if needed.

Age 6 for absolute clockwork sleeping through the night, every night unless ill.

Ahe 6 she was consistently taking herelf to toilet/getting water without an adult and fully resettling herself.

5 wks, 13 mths and 8 years!

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my eldest only woke during the night a handful of times , I was so lucky , but 2nd up @ 3 times a night until 4 months