How rare is sleeping through from birth?

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DS has slept through since the hospital ward on the first night, all the other babies were pissing me off keeping me awake but my little one was sound asleep.

He went from 9pm to 7am. He did the same when we got home.

I just wondered how rare it was. Midwives were all really positive about it, and were happy for me to continue since he had a good birth weight and gained a few ounces in the first week. Also not jaundice, etc.

I've chatted to a few other mums and I was surprised to find others have had similar experiences! So is it really all that rare?

I dared not mention it to anyone sleep deprived though.

My first DD did it the other way around she could sleep for hours in the daytime (between 7 or 8 hours if I'd let her) and then be awake all night and take her feeds then. So to me a newborn sleeping though isn't beyond the realm of possibility. It took ages for her to get out of the habit of feeding all night though.

My first was smaller than that and he didn't sleep through till about 7 weeks.
Oh well there goes that theory.

Mine were 8 and a half pounds and slept through from 8 weeks with no regressions. I’ve never heard of one sleeping through from birth before!
Mind you, I’d never heard of “regressions” before either.

My first did. But I was advised to set an alarm to wake her up to feed her. Now that was soul destroying.

Just to pick up on what someone said upthread about pain relief... I was taking tramadol for a few weeks before the birth and I'm convinced that had something to do with how sleepy she was.

I've got 3dc now. They all sleep well but only the first from birth. It took the other two 12 weeks which seems to be quite common.

I don’t think you’re supposed to let a newborn go for more than 4 hours without a feed? That’s what they told me in the hospital. DS was sleepy & I had to wake him to feed.

DS slept through from birth - until he was 2.5. He would take ‘dream feeds’ so I would stir him 4 hourly through the night. He’s now 5 and has autism. Once he could escape from the cot (2.5) he wouldn’t go down until 2-3 am he’d just run until he was exhausted. I wondered if he was making up for lost time . Now he’s on melatonin and sleeping much better. His NT younger brother slept though from about 8 weeks but only woke once or twice a night to feed and settled straight back from birth also. Didn’t get it from me. Mum tells anyone who will listen I didn’t sleep through til 18 years old.

Not at birth, but my first baby used to wake for a quick feed with the air of being inconvenienced by it, until about 6 weeks when they started going all night, sometimes I'd even have to wake her up at 10am.
She still loves her sleep now in her teens and is notoriously lazy, she'd happily stay there until the afternoon.
Dc2, used to sleep in 20 minute bursts , and even now years on needs very little sleep and lots of activity. I'm still knackered years on.
Some of them are just lazier and like sleep.

No painkillers involved and my DD still slept through from birth??

Dream-fed her so no starving involved either 🙄

My dc1 was an absolute dream of a baby, 4 hourly feeds till birth to 4 weeks dropped the 2am feed from 4 weeks so slept 12-6 am the from 6 weeks slept from 10-6 am, slept 7-6 by 10/12 weeks...was considered a rare sleeper! I’ve never known another baby sleep from birth through the night.

Dc2 well 5 years later I still don’t get a full night!!

My dc2 slept for 8hrs straight after the birth. I kept trying to wake him for a feed because that was the advice. I woke him every 3-4hrs for a feed for the first month because he was only on 15th percentile though. I think I should have let him sleep because he's not slept through since and he's 2.5yo now.
No pain relief for his birth either as it was too quick.

Only my formula fed baby (middle child) slept through from birth, my breastfed babies were up every 2 hours.

He's breastfed

0 issues breastfeeding too. I think that made a difference.

I had a bit of gas and air but nothing else, they tried putting an epidural in but I couldn't do it, the weird sensation was just too much.

And they took away my gas and air when it came to pushing, insisting it would distract me from the task at hand

My mother had to set an alarm to wake me for feeds. My DD slept in the hospital but I put it down to the pethadine. She was an extremely good sleeper from the off.

Both of mine did and I didn't realise how unusual it was until it happened.

I have an 8 year age gap, ds is 15 and dd is 7. I've never done a night feed.

I do believe though that it's payback time now though! Dd has taken to sleeping in my bed and ds never seems tired.

My daughter did, but with an autistic older brother who did not sleep through the night (up every 2 hours, 3 if we were lucky) I think she was used to the noise. She didn't sleep fully through, but she went to sleep 10 pm and slept until 4 am then after a nappy change and feed went back to sleep until 8.

DS1 sleept through (approx 7pm - 11pm, feed, approx 11.30pm to 7am) from six weeks and then was doing 7pm to 7am from around twelve weeks. His sleep went to shit when he was 2yo and we took him out of the cot and out of sleeping bags, he has ASD and SPD so we think the confines feeling of being in the cot/grobag helped him sleep. He's 9yo now and sleeps around 5-6hrs a night, max.

DD slept through from birth, approx 8pm to 7am. The MW and HV told me to wake her for a feed at around 11pm as she was relatively small (7lb) but she was having none of it. We used to change her nappy, strip her down, open the window, put the lights on, tickle her feet, jiggle her, talk to her, and all we ever got was a grumpy whinge and a filthy look before she would go back to sleep again so we just left her. She never had any sleep regressions and now at 7yo still loves a sleep, we joke that she could fall asleep on a washing line. Sometimes she'll be playing in her room and I'll go up to tell her it's bedtime only to find she's already put herself to bed and is fast asleep.

DS2 was an awful sleeper. Didn't sleep through the night until he was nearly 2yo and even now at 4yo he wakes at some point between 11pm and 1am which is when he comes and gets into my bed. To be fair, he goes straight back to sleep when he gets in and most nights doesn't even wake me when he climbs in but we're working on encouraging him to stay in his own bed all night.

DD2 is a normal sleeper. She did the usual new en bit of waking every few hours with a couple of all nighters thrown in here and there. She settled into a pattern waking for a feed at around 11pm and 4am. Now at 20mo she sleeps approx 7pm to 5am but will go back to sleep until 7am if I cuddle her up in my bed.

Sleep is all down to luck. I've done the exact same bedtime routine with all four kids and still got four different types of sleeper.

I wish mine did. But no. However my friends DD is 3 now and has literally only woken up in the night ONCE and that was when she was poorly. ONCE in three years.

My son did, every night and wasn't affected by teething either. Both my family and I found it very odd. He has ASD and SPD and rarely sleeps at all now, so I'm paying for it, just later

EXACTLY the same here @ByeGermsByeWorries How bizarre!

I was really really lucky to have 2 that did it.

Both would have a feed around 10pm and wake between 7 and 8am. DD woke a few times in her first week but settled into that pattern permanently afterwards. DS was exactly the same.

This continued throughout teenage years and bombs wouldn't have woken either.
They are now both early 20's and still love their sleep.