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

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Dellspoem · 18/04/2025 18:47

I have a 33 month old and an 8 month old. I’m after a cross section of answers as I’m going crazy with exhaustion!!

DD is almost 3 and has never slept through regularly. We have had a handful of nights where she’s slept 12am-5am.

Is this normal or am I being unreasonable to expect her to sleep through the night?

OP posts:
Weddingbutterfly · 18/04/2025 19:35

lovemycbf · 18/04/2025 18:50

Mine was 5 the first time he slept all night,only because he started school!!

Same only slept through once before this , first day at school he slept, didn’t make sense but I was so thankful

Jeds55 · 18/04/2025 19:35

My youngest dd didn't sleep through until just after she turned 3. Then w had a couple of months of a solid 10 hour sleep then she reverted to at least 1, mostly 2, wakes per night and that's where we are now at 3.5.
I go to sleep after my eldest is asleep around 8:45 as its the only way that I can survive. Disrupted sleep is awful, you hsve my sympathies

user2848502016 · 18/04/2025 19:34

Eldest DD 12 months, youngest at least 2.5! We ended up cosleeping with her most of the time to save everyone’s sanity

JackJarvisEsq · 18/04/2025 19:34

6 weeks. We thought it was a fluke due to being on holiday but it happened every night since

she'd happily still snooze for 12 hours if we let her

edit to add she was a terrible napper

Andnowshesatoddler · 18/04/2025 19:33

I was blessed with sleep.
My DD slept through from 6 weeks and only ever did one wake up a night. First few days we woke her to feed her every four hours the mid wife stopped that one 😆
I was not blessed with naps though she was never that baby snoozing soundly in her pushchair sadly.

BernardButlersBra · 18/04/2025 19:30

5 months for them both -they are twins.

pinklimefish · 18/04/2025 19:30

OP just clarifying your post, your 3 year old doesn’t fall asleep until 12?

Sirzy · 18/04/2025 19:29

Mine is 15 (years!) and still waiting!

joys of autism

TheFormidableMrsC · 18/04/2025 19:28

4 months and second baby 3 years.

BethDuttonYeHaw · 18/04/2025 19:28

Mine were both 6 weeks.

my nieces and nephews ranged from 6 months to 4 years.

Maray1967 · 18/04/2025 19:28

DS1 - could do 8 hours at 8 weeks. Mostly always a good sleeper.

DS2 - not until about 5 months, but then was still a bad sleeper at 3/4, regularly coming in to us in the middle of the night. Still did it occasionally at 6/7 - then stopped.

MichelleCancelled · 18/04/2025 19:28

Sleep trained at 7 months for both of them.

PickledElectricity · 18/04/2025 19:27

I think technically 12-5 counts as "sleeping through" although I appreciate that it doesn't feel that way.

Mine started sleeping 12-5 from 11 months old when he started walking. We've had stops and starts since then and he's now 2. He will sleep 8/9pm-7/8am pretty reliably unless he's ill or teething, which feels like it happens a lot.

DottyV · 18/04/2025 19:27

Ds- 10 weeks
Dd1- 3 months
Dd2- 3.5 years!

fleetoriginal · 18/04/2025 19:27

Since about 2years 4 months old. She was a bad sleeper, but I suppose could’ve been worse.. by 15 months we had got it down to usually one wake up but to get her to sleep through consistently it’s only happened well after her second birthday. We have been super strict on routine, kept everything the same always.. ironically taking the bars off her cot seemed to help?! Which was weird. I obsessed over every little detail - temperature, layers of clothing, noise, light… it drove me mad!
we got daughter a tonie box about the same time the bars came off the cot and I think that has really helped with allowing me to leave the room so she falls asleep - that was another battle and big win!

Dramallama24 · 18/04/2025 19:26

At 14months DD was waking every 90mins,
By 2 there was a big improvement and only waking 1-2 times and quickly settling back to sleep
From around 3 started sleeping more solidly and reliably through the full night.
Those early days really were a killer and I fully empathise with anyone else waking so regularly!!! I hope things improve for you soon

Sleighbells0625 · 18/04/2025 19:25

DD is 16 weeks and sleeps through, usually get 10-12hrs.
From birth to 12 weeks we woke DD every 3-4hrs to feed. She probably would have slept through if we’d let her. Extended it to 6hrs from 12-14 weeks and now she sleeps through, usually from 9/10pm until 8/9am
Shes our first, and I just know our next will be a terrible sleeper 🙈

SunshineAndFizz · 18/04/2025 19:25

DC1 5 months
DC2 15 months

Merrygoround8 · 18/04/2025 19:25

11 months
7 months
9 months still very much waiting

sleepandcoffee · 18/04/2025 19:24

About age 3

Bournetilly · 18/04/2025 19:24

Eldest slept through from 6 months, youngest is almost 2 and doesn’t sleep through yet. It’s exhausting.

BlueMum16 · 18/04/2025 19:23

DS was 5 and a bit weeks.

DD about 14+ years!!! I now cannot sleep a full night.

People tell me it gets better

TizerorFizz · 18/04/2025 19:23

3 months for both.

Radra · 18/04/2025 19:23

We sleep trained both at around 9 months which did the trick.

I really don't think they would have got there on their own

YessandNno · 18/04/2025 19:23

DC a) = just over 3 years old.
DC b) = about 18 months old.