When did your LO start sleeping through the night?

[Platypusmama]

Posted on behaviour and development but thought I'd try here as well.

I have a 14 month old dd who still wakes to breastfeed anywhere between 3-6 times a night. I'm so unbelievably exhausted I feel like I'm going to keel over.

Starting back at school next week and dd is starting at nursery but I can't even bare the thought of trying to balance studying and coursework as well as the house on barely any sleep. My OH is away most of the time for work so I'm kind of on my own a lot.

Please tell me there's relief coming soon?!? I have nothing against sleep training but I just can't do it. Dd is in a floor bed so would just come and find me anyway

She's 3 and we're still waiting. I'm sorry!

My eldest (not bf) not until 3.5, but youngest (bf) mostly slept through from around 14/15 months. I don’t necessarily mean 8pm to 7am, but my sleeping hours. He goes to sleep in his bed around 8-8:30pm, wakes around 10-12 and comes in to co-sleep then sleeps til 5:30-7am ish. It means I pretty much get a full night of sleep though as he only wakes once around the time I go to bed anyway. I stopped bf during the night around 13-14 months though.

My DS started going really solidly through at 15mo once he started nursery. I think they exhausted him! He's slept well since, I'm talking 8pm-7am solid, except for a challenging 2.5week long 18m sleep regression. He's still in a cot (and will be for as long as I can keep him there!) and a sleeping bag so even when he wakes at 7 on the weekends he'll often chat and then go back to sleep by himself.

By 14mo he was going through the night (again, 8-8ish) but not completely reliably, if my memory serves me. He was still bf too. That many wakings sounds crazy to me, are you sure you wouldn't want to try even a gentle method? Everyone is happier when the family sleeps well...

When he started primary school (4.5 years old)

DS1 at around four months consistently and DS 2 around five months, both times when I stopped breastfeeding and didn't run in to every whimper. They were weaned too around that time (15 years ago), so I filled them with porridge at bed time and pulled the bedroom door to.
Probably not helpful.

27 months and can count on my fingers how many night they have slept right through although it's all happened recently so a big improvement also usually only wakes once or twice tops now so that's better
I had the same issue tho and it was so draining so I feel for u

Stopped bf ds at 9 months and then he slept 7-7 every night....

Both mine started sleeping through at about 14 months when I stopped breastfeeding them at night. I only achieved this by getting my husband to take over at nights though but maybe finding another way to stopping feeding might help?

DD2 is up and down through out the night constantly. In the past 8 months we've had 1 night the other weekend. She's 14 months and we are both utterly exhausted, snappy and grumpy lol x

21mo here and she also wakes around 6 times a night. I'm starting a bit of an adaptation of the jay Gordon night weaning method, so I'm really hoping that helps... 😴

They are not little any more but dd was 2 weeks old. She slept from 10 ish to around 6am. Occasionally she woke up but during the day she had to be woken for feeds. She was more alert as she got older. My ds didn't sleep through until he was a toddler. He didn't wake for feeds or foods after 18 months but he would come out of his room for various reasons. As he got older he would go to bed and come downstairs and say did you shout me? Did I hear my name. He just wanted us to reassure him I think.

Oh I also couldn't sleep train!! But I'm finding now that she's older and can communicate and understand me/talk back, it's much easier to explain what's happening which is really helping me stick to it with the night weaning.

At 6 months sleep training (not cry it out or controlled crying) reduced the 8–12 wakeups to one. At 11 months we repeated the training as we had got lax and from then she slept 12 h per night without waking up and except for illness has continued to.
Number 2 is 11 months now and sometimes sleeps through or wakes up once. He won’t drink water though so I’m waiting for the autumn to night wean him.
I recently read a parenting book called Cribsheet that had a lot of data on sleeping so a good basis for deciding what you want to do.

I Formula fed and she went through from eleven weeks on.

2 years 2 months and still waiting

3 1/2 and I'd say 1 night in 3 DS sleeps through . Doesn't need anything but wakes up and then wakes me up. Got a lot better when nursery dropped his lunchtime nap. Apparently school really tires them out. I'm holding on to that . Only 12 months to go 😂

22 months and still waiting. I switched to bottles in the night so dh should share the nights. So we're both half as knackered as before but still ten times as knackered as we'd like to be!

About 11 months.

About 8 months. Bottle fed though, so never had a feed to sleep habit to break.

Eldest didn't sleep through until she was 6 years old!
Middle from 2 weeks old but he's severely autistic and must have enjoyed the routine.
Youngest from 4 months old .
All bottle fed if that makes any difference.

Weirdly my DD (breastfed) went through a phase of sleeping through about 8 weeks. She's almost 7mo old and has one feed a night. I just settle without breast if she wakes up before a certain time as I know she's not hungry. She goes to bed at 7, wakes up about 3, then goes back down to about 6.30 most nights.

Tbh the biggest difference for us was disassociating milk from bedtime and stopping feeding to sleep. It's not for everyone but I wanted DP to be able to do bedtimes too so now she has her last feed downstairs and milk is not part of bedtime routine.

DS has always been a good sleeper. He slept through or woke up just once from 2 to 4 months, then hit a sleep regression that lasted about 2 months and is now again sleeping through most nights at 6.5 months.

He's breastfed and has just naturally always been a good sleeper. At 6 months though I weaned him off falling asleep while feeding, think breaking the feeding association with sleep sorted his sleep regression out. During his sleep regression he was waking between 2 and 4 times and that was bad enough for me lol

I have a 14 month old dd who still wakes to breastfeed anywhere between 3-6 times a night. I'm so unbelievably exhausted I feel like I'm going to keel over.

I bet you do, that sounds very exhausting. At that age if they’re eating solids they definitely don’t need the milk at night, so it will just be a comfort thing - I know you’re not keen on sleep training but unless you take steps to help her stop I don’t think she’s going to do it herself any time soon, especially if right now it’s still up to six times a night.

Mine all slept through pretty much from day 1, waking for a feed and going back to sleep. I take no credit and know that half the people on the thread hate me now.

However, the older 2, 9 & 6 now wake me up nearly every night with bad dreams, problems, questions or just wanting a cuddle. 18 month old does 12 hours every night

About 14 months, both children.

Both went through a bad patch first