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 first did. 7-7 from 8 weeks old.

It all changed at 18 months and he's not slept properly since. He's five now.

My 4 DC slept through (5+hours from 10/11pm-6/7am) from between 8 and 12 weeks then longer as they got older. I guess I was just lucky to have 4 good sleepers, shame I couldn't take advantage myself as I function on 4-5 hours sleep and would love to be able to sleep longer.

Mine were sleeping through (app 8 to 8) from about 6 weeks.
Both bottle fed formula, both over 8lbs at birth.

Weaned early (app 3 months old) on advice of HV & Dr, so off all bottles bar the bedtime bottle by 6 months.

They've both always been good sleepers, but I've never crept around whilst they were sleeping as that's when the housework & washing got done.
I think that's why they can sleep anywhere, anytime now tbh.

All three of mine (breastfed) slept through from somewhere between 6-8 weeks - going to bed at 6.30/7pm, dream fed at 10.30/11pm and awake at around 7am.

Once they were having solid at 6 months (or 9 months in DD2's case!) I dropped the dream feed and they slept for a full 12-13 hours.

My older two did 7-7 with a 10:30 dreamfeed from around 8 weeks old.

Third one was a good 7m before he was anywhere near sleeping through.

They were all BF and between 7-8lb in weight at birth.

Personally I don't think FF makes any positive difference to sleep (anecdotally some of the worst sleepers I've known in friends babies have been the FF ones) and I'm not sure the baby's weight makes any difference either (I know 5lbers and 10lbers who were going through the night by around 3m). I think a lot depends on the individual baby, how easily they learn to self settle and resettle during the night, etc.

11-8 no feeds from 5 weeks. Mixed fed and now formula (4 months) and has always slept at least 8 hours straight (normally 11 now) from then.

Both mine did.
DD was 5 1/2 weeks old and slept from 9.30 - 9, I woke up about 5am in a panic thinking the worst (although we had the Angelcare) she continued to sleep 12 hours solid from then.

DS slept from 6 weeks 9-6 and still an early riser now.

Sleep through the night before a year old ?

None of mine did

No 2 slept 12 hours from 7 weeks, no 3 from 10 weeks, no 4 from about 13 weeks.

No 1 was almost 18 months, I learnt my lesson!!

My second child was a good sleeper not my other 3 children.

Mine didn't. I remember someone telling me her baby was sleeping through at 6 weeks. At that point I was beyond any reasonable level of tiredness so asked a bit more. Turns out he was sleeping from 11-4. That is not sleeping through in my book. DD is 11 and I remember that conversation.

From about 9 weeks, DD was sleeping from about 9-6am with a feed at 6 and then back down until 9ish. I was so happy and so smug.

Since turning 5 months about 3 weeks ago, it's up at midnight, 2am, 4am and 6am. Bahhhhhh.

Our definition of through the night was 7pm - 6/7am.

My eldest didn't truly sleep through the night till he was 10.5 years old! We tried controlled crying (disaste), co-sleeping (he did up to 6 months but we tried again when he was 3 ish), having a nap, not having a nap, dietary changes...
The other 2 were around the 6 month mark. We followed a bedtime routine from around 3 months old.

My eldest brother has NEVER slept through the night. He's done sleep clinics, tried various medications, lifestyle changes, etc. with no change.

My first slept through from 1 month onwards - breastfed, no night feeds. The second one fed at least twice a night until I stopped the bottle at 2.5 years.

Oh, and both co-slept

ds slept through at 5 weeks.

That was 10/11 pm until 6/7 am.

dd1 woke up 3/4/5/6/7/ times per night until she was 7 month sand I did controlled crying in desperation, and then she slept 7-7.

dd2 quickly dropped to one feed per night (so 10/11 until 6/7 am with one wake up) and then was about 6 months when we got her to drop that feed.

DD was 5 weeks old and slept 12 hours a night
DS was 9.5 YEARS old before he slept through the night longer thanabout 4 hours at a time

DD slept 4 hour stretches from birth. She did roughly 11 until 5 from about 6 or 8 weeks, this spread out into 7 until 8 from about 12 weeks. She was mix fed but I put it down to the fact that she was a thumb sucker from birth and could self-settle.
She's now 18 months, sleeps roughly 7.30 to somewhere between 6-7.30.

Oh mine were all BF and all heavy babies (ds and dd2 over 10lbs), and slept in a moses basket/cot next to my bed.

Ironically dd1, who was my worst sleeper as a small baby, then became the best sleeper, and still is (aged 11) She sleeps more than the others and is not a morning person.

DD is 8 weeks, BF, was 4lbs 13 at birth and currently wakes every 2 hours on a good night.

DS1 had patches of sleeping 7-7 from about 6 months but it never lasted more than a week.... He consistently slept through from around 2 and at 7.5 is still a brilliant sleeper - goes straight to bed and settles instantly, never faffs, sleeps anywhere etc.

DS2 is 6 in 2 weeks and sleep is still not his strong point!!

DS1 was over 9lbs and mix fed, DS2 was 11lbs and FF

Yes DS did 7-7 from 8 weeks. I think it's just luck of the draw as DD is 14 weeks and nowhere close.

This thread is giving me hope for our 6-day old 2am cluster feeder ...

DS could do a 6-8 hour stretch from when be was about 7/8 weeks old, which was when he had his tongue tie snipped. Suggesting he might have done it sooner if they had identified the tongue tie.

At about 6 months he then had a phase where he would crawl up the cot (tummy sleeper) and get out of his covers. We had to get up for a moment and put him back in but as he was still asleep (would cry in sleep when he did it) I counted that as still sleeping through. I later realised other parents wouldn't have counted that! Also I counted 6-8 hours as "through" when others were waiting for a 12 hour stretch I think.

We then got a sleeping bag and he has slept through ever since (except when ill). With DD I didn't persevere with sleeping bag and she was still waking us up aged 5 because she had got her covers off!

Well that cursed it as DD was up at 3!