To give hope to all those parents with non-sleeping DC

[NarkyNamechanger]

My dd at the grand age of 2years, 9 months, 3 weeks and 3 days has just completed ONE WHOLE MONTH of sleeping through the night!

:)

She is dc3 and I was a smug mother of two boys who slept through from 9 and 10 weeks respectively. Dd also lulled me into a false sense of security with sleeping through from birth until 6 months when she turned evil into a frequent night waker.

It's taken until we've got rid of all the baby 'props' that she now doesn't wake (and she was a screamer at night) so no dummy (a year ago), no cot (4 months ago) and no nappy (6 weeks ago).

I'm so happy! I was chronically tired and didn't even realise it. My hair, skin and mind have all suffered and I'm looking forward to getting myself healthy again.

SO to that age old mumsnet saying 'This too shall pass'...

It does. It really does.

My son is 8 and has slept through 5 times......zzzzzzzzzzzz I'm sooooo tired of it!!!

Congratulations and welcome back to your life... although you have given me the fear - DD2 was a great sleeper til 6 months. 9 months later, she is improving... please don't tell me we have a year and a half until she consistently sleeps through.

Oh my god cheeseandbiscuits! 8!!!!!!!!!!

I didn't have the experience of previously sleeping an 8-hour stretch with a child, because it so happens that my first child was an awful sleeper.

That is until three months ago! He was in his big boy bed and out of nappies in the night a few months before that so I can't attribute his sudden love for sleeping to anything but being ready, but I'm not complaining. He's 3 next week . I'm so conditioned I wake myself up a few times a night, I'm gonna have to sleep train myself.

I agree OP, it does eventually, after many months wondering if you'll ever actually know what it's like to sleep a whole night again in your life, pass.

At 8 do you still need to be awake with him though I just leave mine to read if he's not asleep when I head to bed

Congratulations!!!!!!!

So I've only got 11 more months of sleep deprivation with DC2?

My 5year old managed 10 days earlier this year, now relapsed back to nightly. Well done, I'm very jealous!

I am so jealous!
My DD is 3 years and 10 months and so far has only managed maybe 1 or two nights in a row on her own, in her own bed up until a week ago and she has managed all 7 nights alone! We will get there...

Yes - 8!! Wanders through to our room every night. We've bought a super king bed as we end up 4 in a bed every night. Yes-I know I probably should've been tougher but little fella has mild cerebral palsy so I guess we have been very soft with him. He's a bright little fella, plays football etc, attends mainstream school and is doing very well and plays for hours on his trampoline, climbing frame etc. He's an amazing little boy who following a horrific start (we lost him for 27 minutes at birth) has defied the odds, you can imagine how proud and relieved we are but..........he will not sleep through the sodding night!!!!!! Up 2-3 times every night. It's a killer. I haven't slept proper since 2004. Not one word if a lie!!!!!

cheese your last post is so lovely. 8 years of sleep deprivation sounds tough though.

narky congrats on finally getting some sleep, I'm sure I've aged immeasurably since having dd and a lot of that is down to lack of sleep.

DD age 7 and DS age 6 and every night is a sleeples night in this house.

If you would like to borrow them and sleep train them, good luck but we have tried it all. DS always sneaks in for mummy hugs and DD always ends up sneaking downstairs to watch TV for a few hours in the night. DDs strategy is better than being bored and looking for playmates in the form of her parents and DB.

7 years and counting, I have a tv in my room and from 4am till my alarm goes off he watches Netflix while i am inbetween awake and asleep.

Thank you Whenshewasbad :) he's the light of our lives but a nice nights sleep would be great.....but when he wanders through with his hair on end and climbs over me to get between us I still smile and feel incredibly lucky and so so grateful that he's with us :)

Cheese that is a lovely post :)

DS is 3.6 and doesn't do sleeping through, I could count on one hand the number of times he has. One day we might get his asthma controlled enough that it lets me him sleep!

Thanks for giving me hope! Dd 2 yo only went to sleep at ten pm tonight. I'm not just sick of the waking I'm also sick of not having evenings to myself because of dds little need for sleep

Dd1 slept fine as a baby, and then it changed overnight just before she was 3. She has now stayed in her own bed alone all night for less than a handful of nights in the last 6 months. She comes in, we take her back and sleep with her there or sometimes let her sleep with us. She is either hysterical if we suggest she sleeps alone, or she merely just wakes up half an hour later and comes back to our bed. No idea what to do, desperately hoping she grows out of it one day.

She is your 3rd. So you know,you never know what the little fuckers will do next. Are you actually saying both boys slept from 10 weeks? And it never changed, even with light mornings? I think you did ok.

It really never changed, illness aside. They are now 9 and 6 and actually my younger son is such a fabulously deep sleeper that we're having trouble with night dryness and he's renowned for his sleeping in the corner of family parties, meals out etc.

Dd has always gone to bed nicely and self settled but woke regularly between midnight and morning for seemingly nothing. I couldn't even tell you the problem except she was high maintenance in the day too.