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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?

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Pfpppl · 18/04/2025 18:59

About 6 weeks. Then had a regression around 12-13 months, can't remember how long that lasted. No more then 6 weeks I don't think, although it felt like forever at the time.

I realise how incredibly lucky we were and wasn't prepared to risk having another as I don't cope well with broken sleep! You have my sympathy, you must be exhausted and I don't think it's unreasonable for you to expect the worst at least to be sleeping through by now.

cadburyegg · 18/04/2025 18:58

DS1 has mostly slept through since he was 1, with some regressions at around the 3 year mark.
DS2 slept through from 6 weeks - 1 year then didn’t sleep through again consistently until he was about 3-4.

FlutteryButterfly · 18/04/2025 18:57

DD - 4 weeks old 8pm-8am

DS- 2 years old

I didn't benefit from DD sleep pattern due to DSs! Oh well Grin

Teenagers now and could sleep all day long if life allowed!

ravenclaworslytherin · 18/04/2025 18:56

Oldest was 3 months
Middle was 5 years
Youngest is 3 and not sleeping through yet. Will not sleep in her own bed either

SamDeanCas · 18/04/2025 18:54

my dd was about 4 years old before she started sleeping through the night

Olika · 18/04/2025 18:53

From about 19-20 months. But only by making sure she’s eaten enough dinner and evening snack to not wake up hungry at night time.

TourangaLeila · 18/04/2025 18:52

DC1 10 weeks
DC2 around 3 months.

BeansCounter · 18/04/2025 18:52

Ha! So my 2.5 yr old has NEVER slept thru and I don't recall my 8 year old sleeping thru until about 6, maybe. Even now she'll still get up through the night on occasion and come thru to us.

I think it's luck of the draw. I've never wanted to or attempted sleep training. I co-sleep with the 2.5 year old as I worked out that that was the way for me to get the most sleep from being chronically sleep deprived with my first.

WhatMe123 · 18/04/2025 18:52

Dd1 was 12 months dd2 was 2 and a half

lovemycbf · 18/04/2025 18:50

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

Mumoftwo52 · 18/04/2025 18:50

DD1 was about 3, DD2 is 18 months and I’m still waiting…

QueenOfWeeds · 18/04/2025 18:50

22-23 months ish for DD. We did do a sort of sleep training in the end, despite me being adamant I never would, because DH works away part of the week and I was pregnant so just couldn’t cope with our bedtime routine as it was. Not sure where we would be if we had left it up to her.

coxesorangepippin · 18/04/2025 18:49

Ds was 3 months

Dd was 14 months

Cornishmumofone · 18/04/2025 18:49

DD slept through the night twice before she was 4. For the first two years she woke every 90 minutes or so… after that it increased to 3/4 hour blocks.