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?

Actually am I alone in rather enjoying night feeds? I mean after having had a decent sleep for a few hours getting up in the wee small hours with a dim light having a lovely quiet feed and cuddle and back down to sleep. Back to bed and another good few hours kip.

I might be misremembering this,mits a while ago. Something lovely and close though.

Dd woke up through the night until over a year old.
Ds1 was around 9-10 months would sleep 7-5.30 and did that until very recently nothing was keeping that boy up after 7. He's 10 in April and still struggles after 8 and is more 6.30/7 getting up.
Ds2 slept from his last feed at half 10-11 until 9.30/10 the next morning. When he was little wasn't a problem would scoop him out his crib put him in the carrycot and take the other two to school and nursery. He's done 2 years in nursery and in his first year at primary will be 6 in June and is an utter nightmare to get out of bed in the morning even though he falls asleep earlier now.
Sheer fluke really. He just likes sleep. He only gave up his nap when he started school.

I often say I'm glad he didn't come first I'd have been patting myself on the back saying how great I was at getting my baby to sleep.

Ds1 (small, ebf) slept 8-7 from about 9wo. No waking or dream feeds or anything. (However he did cry pretty much all of the remaining 12 hrs per day, so, you know, "sleeping through" ain't necessarily all it's cracked up to be!)

Ds2 (massive, also ebf) was about 7 months old before he consistently slept 8-7. He also had reflux which didn't help, poor thing.

Ds3 was about 3 1/2 YEARS OLD. He nearly broke me. Luckily he was the happiest chilled out little thing ever by day

Yes, 3rd baby did, from 6 weeks. First one from 5 months, 2nd one took 2 years to settle in the evening...

I said mine all slept through at six weeks BUT....

To me that meant 4-6 hours plus. I also breast fed and topped all of them up with formula for the last feed.

I couldn't ever lay down and BF and sitting in bed wasn't comfy. I'm not the type to get out of bed at 4am and feed on the sofa. My lazy love of sleep was a big factor in them dropping two hourly feeds so fast.

Lots of my friends was still two hourly BF around 12 months on and off. I think it's amazing they stuck it out, I just wasn't capable to survive on such broken sleep

My DD slept through from 8 weeks (7.30-7.30). No nighttime/dream feeds. I started following the Baby Whisperer's EASY routine at 7 weeks I'm convinced it made all the difference.

Oh and DD is EBF.

Dd slept through the night 10pm - 7am from a few weeks old but got a chest infection at 6mths and didn't sleep through the night again until she was in Reception. Karma for initially thinking I'd cracked it

Both of mine did, my eldest was going 10-6 at 6 weeks and 7-7 a few weeks after. My youngest has gone 10/11 til 5/6 from about two weeks and now at 18 weeks is going 6.30pm til 7am. We love our sleep in this house, all lazy buggers.

Mine didn't sleep through till he was a year. Till 6 months often woke every 2 hours for a feed. Got a bit better and at a year had one feed at night and often needed a quick pay. Then he had a horrific 18m sleep regression.

BUT by the time he was 2 (is 4 now) he was in bed by 6:30, would fall asleep independently and sleep through till 7:30/8. Even now among his friends is the least fussy preschooler about going to bed. We do his night routine and he goes to bed and stays there. He will not get up unless we tell him to. On the weekends he stays in bed till 8:30/9 am reading to himself. I would MUCH rather have good sleep at 4 years than at 6 months which then goes to pot at 2. Which is what happened to my best friend. Her now 2 year old was doing 8 hours at 6 weeks, sleeping through at 6 months and now at 2 takes 90 mins to fall asleep and wakes up multiple times and wants to come into his parents' bed.

We didn't 'do' anything. V v gradual retreat (over months). It is also his compliant relaxed personality. But sleeping through as a baby by and large doesn't mean that aged 3/4/5 they will necessarily still be good sleepers.

Mine both slept from around 10/11 to 7 from 12 weeks. Both the same weight at birth.,

For me "sleeping through" is 7 or 8 hours at night time . DS did 11pm-7am (elf) at 10 weeks. Dd went 10:30-5:30 ( mix fed)at 12 weeks. If I had waited for 12 hours from DS I'd still be waiting. He could do 11 at around 18m if he had a military routine during the day with nap limited to 45 mins. He is 12 next month still doesn't need much sleep.

Still waiting here at 20 months! Bf and average size at birth. Same routine every single night since she stopped cluster feeding! And still no joy. I'm so tired I could cry.

Yep DD was going 10-7 at 6 weeks. Even before then she was only up twice in the night for a feed at around 1am and 4am (EBF for 6 months too) - I got a lot more sleep post birth than pre birth.

Then she reached a year old and rebelled. I understood sleep deprivation. It was horrific (and I was working too). Now at 3.5 she still has the ability to break me with her awfulness at bedtimes.

I wished..

Ds1 81b 9, took 13 months to sleep through,

Ds2 81b 7. 10 months

DD1..9 1b 9,, 7 months

DD2.. 91b 10.. 6 months

I blame me being a softie and breast feeding.

Cc crying worked all 4 cases.

Both mine slept through from exactly 7 weeks. DD did 7-7 and was fomula fed at that stage. DD was BF and would do 10- 8am with most of the evening spent cluster feeding/sleeping, so she was more or less sleeping from 7pm.

They would have done 4-5hr stretches as BF newborns, and added a fee hours to that each week.

Dd is still a great sleeper at almost 2, and left to her own devices will sleep anything from 13-17 hrs a night. DS will always do 11-12. Downside is waking them in the mornings- it's not pretty!!

When my DD was 4.5 weeks she started sleeping 6 hours at night and now at 10 weeks she's sleeping 9 hours at night. She is in a co-sleep crib and I go to bed with her but I'm BFing and I have to pump in the night because I leak through my 2 breast pads AND bra otherwise

Mine started sleeping through at 6 weeks. She would go from 7pm-7am, no bother at all. She was a pretty good sleeper from the off, I remember she was doing 5-7 hour stretches from 4 weeks old.

Then at about 18 months it all suddenly went to shite. She's 2 now and although she still settles to sleep easily at 7pm, she wakes at least once every night, often about 2 or 3 times. I'm so much more tired now than I was when she was a newborn

I'm just at those with babies who sleep through from very young....or in fact even just sleep at all at that age. I just can't imagine it!!!!!!!

DD is 16 months old and done 11-5 a few times. I started implementing Dr Jay Gordon with her a few weeks ago and we were making great progress, but then we both got ill so it's taken several giant leaps backwards.

I just can't imagine a baby less than a year sleeping through. I just can't.

Oh how wonderful and lovely and freeing and productive that would be!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mine did, DD 10.30pm to 6.00am from 8 weeks then 6pm to 6am from 12 weeks.The boys were slightly later but both sleeping reliably 12 hours from 4 months, they were all breastfed but on solids from 4 months, never did dream feeds, don't think such a thing existed or at least had a name then.

What is this sleeping through you speak of? DS is 2 and remains waking every 2-3 hours on a good night (but has eczema and is an itchy boy)

Yep, slept through at about 6 weeks, maybe 6 hours or so. For about 4 days. After that it took roughly another 3.5 years for her to sleep longer than about 4 hours at a stretch. (Actually, she still woke even then, she just got herself up, used the potty & bimbled around a bit, then went back to bed.) DH is a shit sleeper too . . .

There may be a reason we have only 1 child

My DS slept through at about 2 months for 12 hours a night, it was amazing and I couldn't believe it. I had a baby and was having a full nights sleep! It lasted about 4 months and then normal service resumed He sleeps 12 hrs but wakes up a good few times for a drink.
I think it was switching to fully formula feeding which might have done it in our case as that's when he changed. He just wasn't hungry anymore.

#1 son slept 10-6 from age 6 weeks
#2 son slept through beginning at about age 1
The girl one slept from 9-6 from about 12 weeks

Mine. DC1 at 5 and DC2 at 2. You did mean years didn't you?