When did your babies sleep through the night?

[Poniesandpigs]

My 1yo is still waking at 12am and between 4am-5am. Surely it should have stopped by now?

What can I do to encourage sleep through, I’m so fed up of broken sleep? We already do tea and bath, big bottle of milk before bed, blackout curtains etc. Has 2 naps/day. Nothing makes any difference!

The only way to get him back to sleep is a bottle of milk, how can I break this habit without hours of screaming?

Is there a way to night wean without cry it out?

We couldn't have at that age but it was easy at two. He did cry, as I put him in his bed and he wanted to be in mine. He was in the same room as me so he wasn't distraught, just a bit upset. He cried for about five minutes before falling asleep and then slept through. One may be too young.

4 years old... still wakes up at around 5:00am. Thankfully we're morning people

I was very lucky. DD slept through from 10 - 6 from about 5 weeks, then 7 - 7 from 12 weeks. She likes her sleep (just like me...)

Niece and nephew were terrible neither slept through until they started school, and they are still up in the night occasionally now at aged 9.

I didn't do anything special, like I say we were just lucky.

DS1 I night weaned at 14 months, just cut out night feeds one at a time - I never left him to cry, just soothed him without feeding, he quickly adapted and within a fortnight he was sleeping through reliably.
DS2 I attempted the same at about 18 months, it made absolutely no difference to his sleep and he continued to wake several times and least once every night until 4yrs.
sorry.

I treated all three of mine the same as far as bedtime routines/naps went. All ebf.

Dd1 slept 12 hours every night by 6 weeks old. 8pm-8am, or whenever she was put down, then it was 12 hours from then.
Dd2 slept no more than 2 hours at a time until she was 20 months when we were given medised to help her sleep. At that point she was also going down at 10pm, and waking at 2am. And no, an earlier bedtime made things worse not better. Medised made her sleep 12 hours, and I gave her doses 2 nights running, which kicked her into a better sleep routine. Probably not more than 10 hours, but that was a huge relief. Medised is no longer licenced for children unfortunately.
Ds slept 12 hours from 5 weeks 7pm-7am (couldn't keep him up longer in the evening. He's 16yo and still wakes at 7am) as long as he didn't have an ear infection. Unfortunately he had an ear infection about half the time until he was around 6yo unless he had grommets in. Once he got to about 6/7 months and learnt to climb out of his cot (wearing a sleeping bag) if he woke, he didn't cry, simply climbed into bed with me and wanted to sleep with his infected ear on me. I think the heat helped. So we moved him onto a mattress on the floor, because at least he couldn't fall from there.

So what I'm saying, don't think you're doing things wrong. There are things you can do which may help, but a lot of it is inbuilt and they will sleep the way they will.

14 months until he was ready to sleep through.

About 22 weeks from 8:30pm to 6:00 am

DS slept through reliably from 10 weeks.

DD was much more hit and miss and when she turned 1 I felt like the dummy was making the situation worse as she’d cry for it. Went cold turkey on the dummy day and night and we had one bad night of crying but she’s been fine ever since, sleeping through barring the odd night when teething.

At 7 I am still waiting for a very reliable sleep through the night 😭😭😭 we probably get woken up once or twice a week now but it's a struggle with sleep disturbance for 7 years!

Try reducing his milk by an oz over a couple of weeks until he's down to an oz

If it works and he's just waking because of habit, after the oz just offer water

Eventually he will (hopefully) stop walking as there's no milk to wake for

DS - 11pm-6am @ 9 weeks
DD - similar stretch @ 3.5 years, prior to which she's never slept for more than 3 hours at once in her life!

DC1 3 months
DC2 7 months

But all sorts of regressions, teething, illness etc followed. I did the same thing as you with one of mine and caved and gave them the bottle when we'd night weaned long ago and the kicked myself but it was easy to get rid of again when the phase was over