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

When I night-weaned at 19 months.

Well that would be about 4 yr old. (or that's when they stopped interrupting me.)

We night weaned DS at 14months which reduced the night waking massively and also meant DH could do more. So we started taking alternate nights to do the wake ups. He'd sleep through a couple of nights a week.

He's now 3 and sleeps through most nights.

Slightly off topic but I think it’s related.. She’s an absolutely terrible eater. For example she didn’t even touch her breakfast today, had a snack at nursery that her key worker said ended up on the floor. When I picked her up I bought her an Ella’s kitchen fruit pouch and those veggie straw snack things because I was so worried about her being starving. She wolfed both of them down, I hate giving her purées because she shouldn’t be having them at this age Lunch will be the same pretty much, as will dinner. I’m so worried about it, at what point do I take her to the doctor for her eating? She refuses to be fed (even stuff like yogurt) so it’s all finger foods. I see some babies her age who eat portions of food as big as mine

Platypusmama food consumption has no correlation with sleep.

DS was a brilliant eater, terrible sleeper. DD is a great sleeper, hardly eats!

Mine is 27 and still doesn't sleep through. Thankfully she now lives with her boyfriend so it's someone else's problem.

15 months. we did cc and cio (tbqh cio far more effective as going back in eaxh time was just pressing an eternal restart button) and will do it again (probably earlier!) if no 2 is as bad at sleeping as my first. who is now an amazing sleeper btw and is also a happy, confident child. it worked very quickly with him within 3-4 nights he had slept through. he's now 2 and a half and very rarely wakes up at all. and i didn't wean til 20 months.

My son was about 18 months and he then slept 7pm - 6am. Before that he was like yours, up every few hours we were just so tired!

Eldest was about 10 months, was bottle fed and stopped waking for milk around 7 months, then once I stopped going into him for every murmur he made he started sleeping through. Is 9 now and is an excellent sleeper. Dd was 5 YEARS! Don't know what went wrong her, she didn't start sleeping through until she started year 1 at school! Shes still not great now at age 7, often up until gone 10 at night! 3rd was again about 10 months. He is 4 now and goes weeks sleeping through then will get a period where he comes into our bed every night for a week or so. Dd was 3 when I had youngest and I got up more with her through the night then I did with the newborn! I was a walking zombie!!

6 years old 😫 She's great now though 👍

Ds1 - 16 weeks
Ds2 - not until he started school! I was being despairing at that point. I think I just got used to functioning in little sleep. I used to struggle with less than 7/8 hours. Now I’m fine on 5 and rarely sleep for more than 6 even though I could. I still wake at the slightest sound after years of listening out for his crying.

And I can count on one hand the number of nights I’ve slept through the night in the last 15 years!