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?

My eldest did 6 -7 solid hours from 2 weeks. Roughly 11 - 6 following dream feed. It was nothing we did - just luck. However at 10 years old she's a terrible sleeper and wakes more now than she did as a baby.

I did get very bored on mat leave around the 4 month mark though.

DD slept through from 10-6 from 6 weeks and DS slept from 9-6 from 12 weeks. Both were FF and were fed 4 hourly through the day. Both continued to be good sleepers although we had a blip after DS was unwell. Both still love their sleep.

Never did dream feeds! Had to do it for niece and nephew when they stayed. Nephew now has dream wee at 10pm!

DD started doing 11 pm - 6/7 am from 6 weeks old. By 3 months she did 12 hours a night.

And we could just give her a bottle, a cuddle, then lie her down and walk out the room. No crying or fuss, she just drifted off.

Dinner would be ready downstairs and we'd have a normal, adult evening.

I don't tell people with young babies about this in RL, they might stab me.

DS1 would go 7pm to 11pm, have a feed, then go to around 8am from 6wks old. By 12wks old he was going 7pm to 8am.

DD was going 8pm to 8am from day one. She was BF and I very rapidly lost my supply because no amount of waking would make her feed when she was sleepy. We tried jiggling, tickling, stripping her off, changing her nappy, lights on, and all sorts. She would give us a filthy look and then go right back to sleep. Even now she's a heavy sleeper, last night she was sick all over herself and didn't even wake up.

DS2 ..... well, my luck had to run out at some point. He was a crap sleeper and it took ages to get him settled into a decent bed routine. Now he's 2yo, goes to bed in his own bed at 7pm, wakes up around 11pm and gets into my bed, then sleeps through to 6am.

Yep slept through at nine weeks. Even before then he only ever used to wake once in the night for a feed, around the 3 AM mark. And would feed and go straight back to sleep.

Tbh I think the fact that I am VI made a massive difference to the wakefulness when feeding because I could do everything in the dark. . .

As a baby though I slept through from the day I came home from hospital. So possibly a corallation there....

My breastfed baby slept 11-7 every night from 6-12 weeks. The little menace stopped sleeping at 12 weeks and I had 45 minutely wake ups till about 30 weeks! Just because someone's baby is sleeping now doesn't mean they always will.

Sleepiness is newborns us not always a good sign.

Dd1 slept from about 10-6 at 6 weeks, and quickly expanded that. Certainly by 12 weeks she was sleeping 7-7 with a dream feed at about 10pm (proper dream feed - I could lift her, feed her, change her and pop her back down without her waking!)

Dd2 took a bit longer. She was sleeping 11-5 ish by about 14 weeks, then about 8-5ish by about 4 months. Took a loooong time to get her to sleep/stay quiet/in bed past 5am though.

And then I had ds. By 8 months he was stil waking every hour throughout the night. He was a total nightmare. I think he was 18 months before he slept through reliably.

Dd1 did 8 to 6 then another hour after that at 2 month. She has been an excellent sleeper now 2 3/4. The hv was very concerned but she was gaining weight, so said not to tell people...

My DD slept from 11-8 from about 8 weeks.
Feed at 10.30 then put in cot with no fuss.
Only ever woke up if sick or odd night when teething. Always been a great sleeper and only since starting school has she been up before 8am.
She did stop having any daytime nap before 1yo which is apparantly odd but by then was sleeping 7pm-at least 8am.
Just a shame it was wasted on me as I'm a total insomniac!

My three year old just woke after 1.5 hours asleep.

You're all LIARS!!!!!

Dd1 slept 12 hours from 8 weeks old. She never did a night with less than 6 hours from birth. Entirely breast fed.

Dd2 made up for it. praise to the medised, sadly discontinued....

DS1 did, he slept from 8-6 by around 7 weeks.

I was then "blessed" with DS2 who still wouldn't sleep more than 11pm-5am at 18 months, and DD who was underweight so we had to wake her every 2 hours to feed her.

Karma is a bitch.

DD1 5 weeks

DD2 2 years

DD slept from 7 till 11 then a dream feed at 11 and then through till 6am from 9 weeks ish.
Ds1 was a horror and didn't sleep through till he was 2.5!
Ds2 was 6 months or so.

They were all BF till 12 months

Matilda

Yes absolutely. I had a duvet, flask of tea, biscuits and a Jane Austen. Sometimes they were asleep while I was still reading.

Honestly to all those with non sleepers try cc. Saved out sanity.

My eldest did

middle one not so much

last one was doing 7-7 by 12 weeks

My first slept from 9pm to 9am from six weeks. Dream feed at 11:30pm. Mix fed, i definitely think it makes a diffference.

Mine did but it all went to pot at six months when they started teething.

DD was 3 weeks old DS 5 weeks old
However my version of sleeping through was a last feed at around 11pm which would last them till somewhere between 6 and 8 am
I started weaning at 5 months and when they were having much less breast milk by 9-10 months old they were both sleeping 10-12 hours

My first born at 6 weeks would go from 8 til 6 with a dream feed at around 11 breast fed. My second did the same but at 12 weeks. Again exclusively breast fed. Don't necessarily think formula fed babies sleep better.. I just think all babies are just different, but training them to go down awake and self settle helps a lot.

DC1 Now 5 still doesn't sleep through the night (well maybe the odd once or twice he has) dc2 was an amazing sleeper I think she would have slept through from about 4 weeks if I'd let her but it felt wrong as my ds never did so I used to wake her to give her a bottle half way through the night I thought maybe she was sleeping well because her blood sugar was low or something!

I realised about 6 weeks old (after the midwife looked at me like I was crazy when I explained I woke her to feed her) she would let me know if she wanted a feed overnight and left her to it. Though I didn't actually get any more sleep because dc1 woke about 5 times a night at that point. (He's down to 1 or 2 now)

My EBF DS went from 9-6 at 10 weeks. Then we hit 4 month sleep regression and all merry hell broke loose. Took about a year to get back on track