to be totally fed up with being called a liar, albeit indirectly?

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The amount of times I have heard 'Anyone who says that their child sleeps 12 hours a night is a liar' is really starting to get on my nerves...

My 10mo DOES sleep 12 hours a night. She also eats most foods, mostly plays well with other children and is generally quite happy. I know other people who have babies who sleep 12 hours. It can happen. I do not claim that this is due to any brilliant parenting, some of us are just lucky. We are not, however, liars!

Nothing wrong with praying for a bit of luck, or for appreciating it while it lasts. She will probably be the world's worst teenager.

Disclaimer: Do not brag about the sleep, but do tell people if they ask. Sorry if you are a sleep deprived mum reading this, your child might be an easy toddler...

Fair enough, but you do realise that now people are just going to call you a lucky cow instead, in bitter sleep deprived tones

Lucky cow I accept, mooooo.

YANBU. I get grief because I admitted once that my dd slept well as a baby. The fact she doesn't now doesn't seem to make any difference to the people intent on making me feel bad about it. Just to note it was in response to a direct question on how much sleep I got when she was younger, and I wasn't rubbing it in.

YANBU. I've actually had people say "Oh stop lying" when I tell them, after they have asked, that DD has slept through the night from 3 months old and still continues to do so at 13 months. She is pretty much as you describe. A lot of family seem to resent it actually, and always have little digs whenever they can as they all had horribly 'broken' babies (their words)

I have never claimed to be a baby connoisseur though, I'm a first time Mum who mainly doesn't have a bloody clue! I know I have been truly blessed with DD :)

YANBU

My DD has always slept through the night, almost since she came home from hospital, I used to have to wake her to feed in the night!

However, she is a spectacularly demanding toddler. It all evens out in the end.

ds1 always slept 12 hours from about 8 weeks. ds from about 8 months but they both do it. i am not lying i swear.

Ahh, don't worry, they really are jealous!
My dd slept 12hrs from 9mnths old, with a 2hr nap during the day untill she was 3yrs!

over stimulated children are the curse of the modern world..

Bloody hell, I told everyone who would listen that my child slept 12 hours. I was proud until I had DD who used to do 6.

Now she is a lazy so & so and will sleep for 12 aged 4 and my son is the same as hubs and gets up at 6am no matter what time they went to bed.

some people are just attention seekers. Both my DS's have slept well from an early age. I think some people are a bit up tight which translates to their children. Other aren't and their babies aren't either. Don't feel guilty, just enjoy it!

Wait until people that one of yours slept through regularly from 10 days old - yes 12 hours at that..........

mine are more or less grown up but dd1 slept 12 hours from 4 weeks but ds never ever slept still doesn't at 16 dd1 slept from 3 months from 6-8 when I had to get her up and would have naps during the day.

I know people who claim to love their jobs. Clearly they are lying as I NEVER loved going to work (really not a grafter by nature).

On another note, why am I wasting all this lovely child-asleep-peacefully-fot-the-next-8-hours-at-least time on mn when I could be in my lovely bed? Off I go, night night.

can remember having an interesting discussion once when dc1 was little and had been sleeping well since he was very small. Another newish mum was talking about 5 hours sleep - to which I replied I was so grateful that my days of not getting a full night's sleep were over, and she was very antagonised because she reckoned that 5 hours a night was 'officially' a full night's sleep if you had a baby (not sure who had deemed it official!) and that I was obviously doing something wrong as dc1 was obviously sleeping too much (despite the fact that she was desperate for her child to sleep more . And whilst he was good at sleeping, dc1 was rubbish at eating (and still is).

DC2 on the other hand was a complete nightmare when it came to sleeping - only just started sleeping through the night by the time he was 2, was regularly waking up 3-4 times a night until then and I was a sleep walking disaster. But he was good at eating...

Seriously, I am off to bed, just remembered that although DD has slept well for ages, I never said she slept through til she was 3 months, that was when she first had 12 hours in a row, getting up at 7. Didn't happen again for a while but NEVER subscribed to the HV's view that 12-6am is sleeping through, yaaaaaaawn! 8 hours is a full night's sleep, 12 hours is wonderful!

Like SMellyPirateHooker's dd, ds slept through almost from the start, to the extent I was having to wake him for feeds.

He will be 10 on Friday and is still a brilliant sleeper.

I am not looking forward to the teenage years......

yanbu, my ds1 slept like that too from quite a young age. and ds2 does sometimes and sometimes not. a lot of babies do sleep through, i don't know why some people don't know this? obviously not all of them but its not that rare and certainly not at 10 months!

Just a figure of speech

I believe you. My DSs were both good sleepers albeit not as good as yours. People will be jealous of that and won't see the whole picture. So YANBU.

On the flip side for me DS1 is starting school this week and is not potty trained. Arrrgghhhh. Whoever says potty training is easy is lying.

Tell the next person who says this to you that they should not have asked and you're offended that they think you're lying.

Invariably when you get a thread on mumsnet about sleep, someone will pop up and say anyone who says they baby sleeps through is a liar.
There seems to be something about mumsnet where unless your baby is keeping you up all night your not a good mum, or your child is not natural or normal.

DCs both slept through from 12 weeks. DS hit a bit of a problem when he was about 2, but just told him to bring his quilt in and sleep on the floor next to bed if he woke up.

DD had problems with wetting the bed until 4 so we had a few nights having to change her in the middle of the night.

Baby no one lulled us into a false sense of security he slept 12 hours from day 3 (well he was almost 11lb born- so prob had enough fat reserve) no2 slept 8-10 hours and no 3 has NEVER slept through. Now we attend sleep clinic and I have aged 10 years.. Wish I had never said out loud how much sleep we were getting

Fair enough your baby sleeps through the night (I am very by the way!!) and it must be very annoying to have people question your honesty BUT I know for a fact that three people who have told me about their babies sleeping through from 2 monthsish were lying. (I was at their house when the baby was a bit older, and each time the baby woke up several times overnight, and it seemed to be a regular thing)

So unfortunately whenever anyone tells me about their amazing sleeping baby I now generally go [hmmm] due to these people who I know FOR A FACT are either misrecalling or deliberately lying. No offence :)

I hate it when people say we're "lucky" that DS sleeps well and has a good routine. I guess there might be an element of luck, yes, but also we worked bloody hard at establishing it all in the early days, thanks!

My ds now sleeps 14 hours at a stretch (disclaimer teenager) and would sleep more if not kicked out of bed.