What does your baby/toddler sleep at night?

[NastyPeace]

I have very gently sleep trained my DS 11mo to get himself to sleep with a minimal amount of help from me (singing songs to him). He still sometimes wakes in the night and will mostly scream if I put him down. He wants to be held back to sleep, but this is happening less frequently.

But to help me feel less crap I wonder how many people actually have the mystical 7-7 sleeping children and on average how many nights?

My main concern is I work nights and my poor DM will be having him and I don't want her to have a miserable time looking after him in the night. Plus I just want him to be happy after a good night's sleep.

I coslept with Dd until she was 18 months and then moved her into her cot with a little help from me.

Has your DM had him overnight before? It might be worth giving it a try first and see how she gets on. Dd used to sleep beautifully for my parents.

No not yet. I'm going to be doing that this week. I was going to stay too but let her to bedtime.

10 months old, up usually 2 if not more times a night, most of my friends babies aged between 6 and 15 months don’t sleep through either!

I’d go out if you can, or at least pretend. If ds knows you’re there he’ll likely fuss a lot more.

I also found that my mum doing a completely different bedtime routine helped more than following our one. No idea why!

My plan is to stay 3 nights on the run up. First I(we) put him to bed at hers, then she put him to bed but I'll be downstairs, then the last night I'll be at work so it will just be the two of them.

3 yrs and 3 months. Up through the night weaned off milk and dummies (just). Normally needs 10 hours of sleep whether that's broken or not. And can be up between once and four times

@Forevercurious that makes me feel better.

BUT when she stays with my parents she has always slept right through. Id reccomend not being at your mums as your dc may settle better without you. Mines does and still does, quote 'different child'

DS is 2.5 and has been pretty good at sleeping 7-7 unless he's in a sleep regression. We've had the 10 month one and the 2 year one. Both lasted a couple months. He's starting overnights at his dads in the new year and I'll be trying to prepare him with sleepovers at my mum's. I don't expect it to go well in the beginning but the more they get used to it, the better they'll get at it. I'd start the odd sleepover now with you putting him to sleep in the room he'll be staying in.

He may be fine, he may not be. You won't know until it happens. Good luck!

@TeddyBeans thank you. Good luck too. It is a horrible feeling having to leave him with someone else.

DD is 3.9. Apart from sleep regressions she slept twelve hours a night every night since she was three weeks old.

First dd was so magical and I didn’t realize at the time - slept 7.45pm-6.45am from 4 months old and only woke if not well.

Second dd is two and I co sleep to actually get sleep. She sleeps very well now , 7pm-7am with a wake up about 11 for a bottle ( too tired to stop the bottle !)
If I didn’t co- sleep I know she would be up multiple times and no one would get any sleep