To ask when (or if) your baby slept through the night

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... and what you class as 'through the night'. Just trying to work out what is 'normal'.

Out of my NCT group I apparently have the only baby that does not sleep 7-7 or thereabouts.

My baby is 9 months and on a good night will wake at 10 or 11 for a feed and then again at 5ish, waking for the day at 6.30/7. He's breastfed (not sure if this makes a difference).

Ds (breastfed) tried to sleep through (c10pm to 6am) from 2 weeks!

As he wasn't gaining weight well, I actually had to wake him to feed him and then also resorted to every second feed being an expressed feed and then also supplementing with EBM after every feed.

Eventually, as he was thriving yet only gaining weight slowly (dropping from 91st to underneath the growth curves before starting to creep back up the charts to the 50th just as predicted by the consultant), we realised he was just "catching down" and stopped waking him and supplementing with expressed milk.

By 6 weeks he was allowed to sleep through from 10 to 6.30 and by 6 months, he'd dropped the10pm feed and was sleeping 8 to 7. I breastfed for 13 months, no formula.

Just the luck of the draw

At 15, he's still a good sleeper! (though now it's 10 to 7 )

DD is 2.5yo. Still waiting. She had a run of about six nights recently when she went straight through. I got really excited. It was misplaced. Last Monday night she woke me up five times. Good luck OP.

DS- 9 weeks
DD - 3.5 years

Dc1 was 3 months but started waking again at 9 months, slept through at 13 months and started waking at 18 months and sleep was shit until about 4 years old.

Dd was 6 months and has slept well ever since.

Ds2 was 12 months.

Up with her now, she is 9.5 (years)

Close to 4 years before DS sleep through the night reliably. From about bit older than 4 we can leave home imbed awake around 7 and won't see him til about 630am. He very occasional gets up for water but has even started doing this himself.

DS is 3.2 and still ends up in my bed every night without fail

Fanjo has dd beat! 6.5 years and then still a very early riser till she hit puberty!

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My four year old still doesn't. My six year old did when he was about 2. Every child is different.

Ds slept through from the day I stopped breastfeeding. (10mo) we then had over a year when he woke maybe 5 times in total... that stopped and we've had all sorted of shenanigans since then with waking for lots of spurious reasons. He's nearly four and still wakes v early a lot of the time and even the slightest illness or the bedroom being different and he's up and down all night like a jack in the box!

From about 8 weeks, DD slept beautifully from about 9pm-8am.

From about 4.5 months to now (6 months), she goes down at about 8 and gets up at about 6 - but we have at least 1 middle of the night wake up, if not 2 or 3. I 'm exhausted and dreading going back to work in a month

At 4 years old.

At about 3 years old, urgh.

For a baby I class 'sleeping through' as sleeping a good 5 or 6 hour chunk during the time I sleep. For a toddler and older I class it as not waking up/needing settling once they initially fall asleep until its their normal wake up time.

DS slept from 7-7 since about 6.5 months - it happened quite suddenly and he's been good ever since.

Before that he would vary but normally we had at least one period at night when he would manage 5 hours, but during growth spurts, including for a few days at about 4mo he was up every 2 hours.

DS was one year old (almost exactly) when he first slept through the night. He didn't do it again for months and didn't start regularly sleeping through until 2.5 years.

Don't take any notice of competitive NCT mums. You sound like you are doing a good job.

DS started sleeping through at 6 months (after gentle sleep training), but we moved house when he was 15 months (coinciding with teething and a chest infection), and since then he's been waking once or twice a night and needing a quick cuddle for reassurance before he goes back to sleep. He always wakes before 6am, unless he's got a bad cold, then he sleeps til 6.30ish. He's never done 7-7, even when he was sleeping really well.

We've only been in the new house a month, so we're hoping once he settles a bit more, he'll go back to sleeping though.

at about 11 months.

Coincidentally, the same night our baby monitor stopped functioning :)

I'm 37, and I've never slept through

Ds has done it I think three times (8 hour stints) just to mess with our heads, but right now at 5.5 mo he's waking a lot - every 90 mins. I really hope it's a growth spurt :(
Up till now he's been doing into bed at 6:30, able to self settle, slept until 10:30-11 then feed/change and one more feed about 2-3 am.
He's breastfed and obviously hungry. He has done solids too but it's made no difference. I'm hoping once he's crawling hell sleep better

16 months and still waiting! Best night is needing settled twice. We're up at 5.30am.

This sooo much better than it has been, though. DD was a horrific sleeper (waking every hour sometimes) until about 1. Also BF although we switched to formula around about then.

Hang on in there!

Can I ask when/how long you would leave a baby in his/her cot? I don't mean CIO, but rather if they have woken up and are quite happy. At the moment I pick DD up whenever she wakes up.

For me sleeping through is sleeping from their bedtime to proper morning without me having to attend to them at all - no feeds, no cuddles, no putting dummy back in...

Dc1 gave formula at bedtime to try and get her to sleep through. She still woke twice a night, decided she preferred formula and I then had to make bottles twice a night. She was 2 before she slept through.

Dc2 was ebf, also 2 years old.

Dc3 is only 3 weeks old but only wakes 2/3 times so far and settles well after feeds most nights. I am hopeful for an earlier sleeping through but not convinced it will happen.

Scared if they are happy I leave them, same fidgeting around, even grumbling a bit. Crying I pick up. Sometimes it's easier to pick straight up and settle though rather than listen to them fidgeting around for half an hour so it really depends how tired I am.