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?

Both of mine did from 2 weeks old, 8 yr gap and both formula fed.
Sil said it would be impossible to have another good sleeper after ds but dd was brilliant and still has to be woken up fifty times for school now she's 5. Don't think there's a secret. I had an excellent routine and was lucky.

How heartening to read that this actually does happen - I'm keeping my fingers crossed for DC2 (due any day now) to be a good sleeper as DS is now 17 months and hasn't slept through a single night in his whole existence 😣)

Three and four months respectively. Both ff by this stage. No sleep regression either!? However, I was harsh, neither child ever spent any time in our bed and I didn't tend to every whinge and whine. Luck plays a large part too I'm sure.

Just reading through all the replies, so interesting all these different babies.

It must be amazing having a tiny baby that's sleeps through. I absolutely love newborns but I absolutely hated doing the night feeds.

Dd started sleeping through from 8 weeks and by 12 weeks she would sleep for a good 10 hour stretch. EBF.

However that went hand in hand with her being very colicky 6-12 weeks. So she screamed and screamed for hours until she was exhausted. My theory was that she then had a good sleep pattern that has continued ever since.

At the time I would have taken a night waking or 2 over the screaming.

Ds was sleeping 7-7 by 10 weeks. Fully bf. I felt quite smug until I had dd who was 5 years by the time I could say she 'slept though'. I'm not so smug now!

Well my baby is now 17 months and never slept through

From 0 to 10 months he would wake minimum 5 times up to 15 times a night

Now it's around 2-3 times a night at 17 months old

My first one did 8 hours 10-6 at 4 weeks. By six weeks she was doing midnight to midday. By 12 weeks she was 7.30 to 9.30 (yes 14 hours) plus 2 long naps in the day.

We won't talk about my second one.

The first night dd1 did 8 hours at 4 weeks I woke up to DH leaping through the air above me to the Moses basket...he panicked when he woke before her and thought something was wrong, bless.

I consider "sleep through" as "not disrupting my boundaries for night time". I go to bed 11ish and morning is bearable for me from 6:30am, so that is where I feel happy to call it success. My baby is four weeks and is waking once in the middle of the night (2am? Who knows, I breastfeed lying down and we cosleep) and once at 6ish for another feed. I'm ecstatic with that, even if it continued like that for six months I'd be happy. For me, it is how to make sure I can 'sleep through'...I.e. Cosleeping and breast feeding lying down! I think it is a lot about the definition and also breast v formula

I had an over ten pound newborn who didn't sleep through until he was nearly two years old. So much for big babies sleep in well! He was BF until 5mo and then FF and didn't sleep any differently. Zzz

I guess it depends what you define as "sleeping through" but either way, DS1 slept 10.30pm - 6am from 10 days old. Just swaddled him and he never woke. First few times he did it I tried to wake and feed him at 3am but he wasn't having it, so I left him.

DS2 was probably a good 3-4 months before he stopped nursing through the night, and once we moved him into his own room when I went back to work he went through around 5 months I think.

That being said, I found it far harder when DS1 went through a fear stage at 3 years old and pretty much didn't sleep through for about 18 months. That absolutely sucked.

My eldest....now 17...slept through at 6 weeks. 9.00pm -6.00am.
My youngest...now 12.....was 10 weeks.

DS1 slept 12 hours from 7 weeks.

DS2 was doing about 6 hours at the same age, but not up to 12 hours until about 4 months.

We didn't do anything special with DS1 - he was just a big sleeper from early on. I don't think he ever slept less than 5 hours in a stretch after the first couple of days.

TimeToMuskUp is making me quake and snort, mainly so that I don't wake my two succubi who thought that any stretch of sleep longer than two hours was entirely unnecessary until well past a year old.

My first child didn't sleep all night until 7 YEARS! It got to the point the hospital prescribed sedation medicine. But my second child was sleeping through at 5 weeks but during the day he would drink 9oz every hour so he was pretty stuffed come night time. He also weighed 17lb by 5 weeks so very chubby. My third grumbled and woke up most of the night until gone 3yrs. My 4th was born when number 3 was 2.5 and I was getting up more in the night to her than the newborn. He was sleeping through 6-7 by 7 weeks and she was still up every 1-2 hours. All are great sleepers now and never wake before 7.30.

Oddity

My daughter was sleeping similarly at the same age as your baby. I have a similar sleeping pattern to you also. So I was always happy with her sleeping. Even so, when she moved to sleeping through properly speaking, I was delighted.

Generally speaking, I'm not sure about the "big babies sleep better" thing, mine was small. She was ff by 4 weeks old but had that sleeping pattern from the get go.

i think you get what you get really.

Mine slept through from 8 months, one friend's baby does but two who used too do not anymore.

I know I shouldn't but I do laugh hysterically when someone says my 4 week old isn't sleeping through. It's wrong & I feel bad but every baby is different.

Hoping next will sleep through a bit sooner but not that much hope!

My little one was ebf and slept through from 10 weeks. Properly 7-7. He still loves his sleep.

My oldest was formula fed and finally, reliably slept through more nights than not, at 7. That's 7 YEARS. He's now 9 and still often gets up in the night. He hates going to bed, he's a terribly restless, fitful sleeper, and he's often up before 6am.

Having a good sleeper second-time round both saved my sanity and made me realise it's nothing you do that makes them sleep. It's just who they are.

DD slept dim 12am -6am by 6weeks. Weclassed that as sleeping through as it wasn't far off our normal sleep routine.
Even before that she slept in four HR blocks. I would go to bed at 10pm, DH did the midnight feed, she woke at 4am by which time I'd had 6hrs. I did the 4am fred so DH could sleep until work alarm at 7am.
She's still a good sleeper now at 2 and a half. Takes after her mummy :)

My DS slept through at 9weeks just had a good routine and it was when we put him in his own room.

DD slept through from 5weeks again routine always had a bath at a certain time and timed feeds he latest one being at half ten 11.

I will read this all to my 2 y/o when he inevitably wakes up at 11pm, see what he makes of this "sleeping through" stuff...

None of mine have slept through until at least 20 months, I'd say (while currently feeding 13 month old back to sleep!)

All my 4 slept through in varies hours from very early on (dd1 was 3 days old first time she did 11-6) dd3 was the " latest" she was 6 weeks old and until then woke at 3 am on the dot fed for 10 mins and went back to sleep. dd2 and ds both slept through by the time they were 4 weeks old (again 11 -6)) this got longer the older they got.

All fully breast fed none of them significant big weights (not one over 8lbs at birth)

Speaking with my mother and MIL both dh and I were both good sleepers as babies so I have often wondered if it was passed down in genes.

we have been woken more in the night in the last year with ds age 14 due to a kidney issue that has makes him throw up. 28 times in the last year so lots of waking up when he comes in to us (he can't be left alone as falls asleep during the throwing up and wakes up throwing up - so strict orders to get us) Than we ever have been in 18 previous years as parents.

Dd1 7lb6 slept through at 9 weeks
Dd2 7lb13 slept through at 7 months
Ds1 10lb 8 slept through at 7 weeks
Ds2 is 16 months and has slept through a handful of times

The two dc that slept through at 9 and 7 weeks would go down at 7 and I would dream feed at 10.30 they would then sleep until 7. I thought that's what all babies did until I met dc4!!!

I have a friend who boasted her babies slept through at that time. She was dream feeding at 11pm and about 4am until they were six months old!

My twins had breast milk in the day and formula t night and dos sleep through at about 3-4 months. DS3, fully breastfed - oh haha he was about a year old!