Do any babies really sleep through at 6-8 weeks?

[Pyjamaramadrama]

Aibu to kind of not believe that babies sleep through the night so early? Ok of course I believe it, but how on earth?

My first slept through, I mean properly 7-7 at 6 months old. I'd have thought that was quite good and lucky. My second still doesn't sleep through at 8 months, although he dropped night feeds at 6 months, he wakes lots for comfort though.

Loads of people I know and posters on here say that their babies slept through much earlier, by say 3 months, some as early as 6 weeks!

Mil tells me my dh was a 'terrible sleeper', but in his baby record book it says he first sleep through at 2 months old, how can that be terrible?

What I'm wondering is, when people say slept through, do they mean something else, such as going straight back to sleep after night feeds, or do they mean with a dream feed at midnight? When I imagine sleeping through I think of once they will fairly reliably do 7,8,9pm-6-7am, without any night feeds.

If yours did what is your secret?

Sleeping through was 11pm-8am here. I consider that sleeping through as was when we put baby to bed when we went and when we woke up, so no getting up in the night.

Mine have never gone to bed at 7pm as that's just we get home and everyone eats/ does stuff

Oh lots of replies, mine were both biggish, over 8 and 9lbs. Both ff from quite early on. I've also done all the bedtime routine and stuff.

I'm already planning my revenge on ds2, I'll be hoovering the landing at 7am when he's in his teens.

DD is 8 weeks and has been sleeping from 10pm-6 am for the last week. I have my fingers crossed that it continues!

none of mine 😑

DS did 10-6 at 9 weeks. I remember it because it was my birthday! He built up to 7-7 farly quickly after that.

DD was still waking up for milk/hours at 3.

Both ff from 2 or 3 weeks, both around 7 lb 7 oz at birth.

Dd started sleeping through at 16 weeks when we offered solids.

Ds is 1 on Friday and still wakes in the night at least once for a bottle. However he does go straight back to sleep as goes to bed at 5.30 till 7. Waking up with him takes 5 mins if that

In scientific literature it's 5 hours, ie studies class that as 'sleeping through'.

Some don't signal for attention and are quiet for longer.

Recent studies show it's mostly genetic. And clearly depends on good health of child. (Mine was low birth weight, slightly refluxy and found to have bladder reflux at 3 mo, plus tongue tie, so odds kinda stacked against him )

(As an aside, I get very cross with the whole "don't look them in the eye, they're just being sociable" - as I teach children with autism and spend a lot of time trying to get eye contact and encourage sociability.)

Ds1 slept from 10/11pm until 5/6am from 1 week. He slept 9 till 7:30 by six weeks. Ds2 and ds3 didn't! This probably explains my 22 month gap between the first two and eight years 10 months between 2 and 3.

Our DD was up twice in the night, then once, then by 8 weeks was sleeping through. Now she's 11 months she will do 12-13 hours. We consider ourselves truly lucky. When people ask how the sleepless nights are I have to admit that I have no idea I think our friends hate us as some of them have really bad sleepers.

Oh and I had tiny babies
Dd was born at 38 + 4 weighing 5lb 14
Dd was born at 37 + 3 weighing 5lb 3oz

www.isisonline.org.uk

All the current research from Durham university infant sleep lab.

My eldest slept through at 6 weeks, she was ff which I think made a difference. The other 3 were bf and none of them slept through that early, despite my best efforts

Mine didn't sleep through until she was over a year old. Even now 2 years later it's hit and miss

My friend's baby slept through from 6 weeks. And self settled.
He was amazing.

DD did. From 2 weeks. Miracle baby. She barely woke for 4 whole months - she just slept the whole whole time.

Not DS1 or DS2 though.

All exc bf till 6m. DD was teeny. Boys bigger.

DD was 9lb at birth and formula feed. It might have been different if we managed to get the knack of breastfeeding.

DD1 did 10 pm till 7.30 from 10 weeks. Fully BF too. Then it all went to hell in a handcart just before she turned 2 with separation anxiety.

DD2 didn't sleep more than 4-5 hours until almost 1. You could set the clock by her - 11.30 and 2.30 she wanted feeding. Would take both sides in 15 minutes flat and then conk straight out again. No separation issues at 2 at all.

They have both been excellent sleepers from a very young age.

My DD slept through 7/7 from 6 weeks. DS still doesn't sleep through at 2 years old.

'They are all different' has definitely been true for me.

Oh, they were both small and breastfed.

My first four did. I had to wake a couple of them up at a younger age as they slept too much and weren't gaining weight.

My fifth? Well, she was a complete nightmare and didn't sleep through for bloody years and she is still a bad sleeper.

All FF.

Please don't assume they mean from midnight or going back after feeds. Okay, I suppose they might, but when I said they were sleeping through when someone asked me (and I'd never tell them unless they specifically asked) I meant 7-7. In fact sometimes it was 8am

They still won't get up early. Which is great, because neither do I

DS1: 11pm -6am at 5 weeks and pretty good thereafter.
DS2: 9pm-3am on the day her was born and continued to wake for a feed at 3am or just to come to see me until aged about 3.5. I think he missed me.

Both breast fed. Still very different from one another.

My eldest didn't sleep through until he was 5, my middle child until 9 months but my baby has slept 7-7 since 6 weeks without a feed. She sometimes wakes for dummy reinserting but goes back to sleep. I don't know why or how she just does. I'm not complaining at all.

Mine was another formula fed big baby and she was going from around midnight to 8 am ish at 6 weeks. She's always liked her sleep more than her food.

My first slept through 7.30-7 with a dream feed at 10.30 (in his sleep) from 10 weeks, very reliably.
My youngest first slept through at 15 weeks but not reliably until about 7 months. I didn't feed her at night after 4 months though but she did used to wake for her dummy until she learnt to put it back herself.

Mine slept through properly from 2 weeks, 9pm to 8am.

Didn't last though. He was fab till 4 months (now 10months) and hasn't slept for more than 4 hrs since. Doesn't really nap in the day either. I'm knackered and paying for my 4 months of uninterrupted sleep!!