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

[HariboFrenzy]

... 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).

Thanks troika - i might try leaving her for a bit longer then. Although she is so bloody noisy it's like having an entire farmyard in there!

7 - 6 from about 7 months. No night feeds.

One NCT baby was sleeping through 7 - 7 from about 12 weeks. No night feeds. DH and I were very envious.

8 weeks. I had no technique, was just very lucky

No regression till 3 either - now wakes maybe once or twice one or two nights a week

Both mine were breastfed - ds1 was 11 months when we dropped the night feed and he slept through which I thought was very late compared to all the other babies however that was before ds2
He is 3 and still is up 2-3 times a night he doesn't need Anything as such just needs help lying down and told to go back to sleep
I did read that no one sleeps 12 hours it's that some people can settle themselves back to sleep on their own/more quietly and are less awake at that time than others

For me "through the night" is 7 or 8 hours at a stretch in the night-time. So I count 11-6 or 10:30-5:30 as through. Both did this around 10 weeks. We dropped the late night feed once they were on 3 meals a day, so 6 months ish. I know this makes me very old fashioned now, as it is "normal" for babies to wake up at night till 18m.

From about 12 weeks. We had a little bedtime routine really early on and I think that helped. Ff from birth.

I classed "sleeping through" as not needing a night feed anymore. So, from around 7 months my DD would sleep from 7pm until about 2am, would wake and have a little grizzle, but would settle back down (sometimes with me popping her dummy back in for her) and sleep until 6/6:30am.
She's only now at 11 months going from 7pm-6am without making a sound - I consider myself very lucky! I have friends with 2 year olds who have never slept through, and one of my friends has a 4 year old who still wakes frequently in the night, and then there's my sister's DS, who has slept through the night completely from 8 weeks old - which just goes to show, all children are different!!

At 8 months he slept 7pm - 7am.

From the day we got home from hospital he slept 7pm - 7am with one very quick night breast feed (around midnight) & settled immediately.

I don't know if it was sheer luck or my very strict GF routine. . I never cuddled him or breast fed him to sleep.

DD slept through (7pm-7am) from about 6 weeks but stopped suddenly at 15 months or so and hasn't slept through since. She's now two.

My younger DB didn't sleep through until he was six . My poor mother...

DC1 was about four months when he started sleeping 6-6 then he'd go back to sleep after a feed till 10! All he did was sleep for the first year, loved it.
DC2 was three months, slept 6-6.
DC3 was ten months but because she coslept I didn't really mind. I'd just roll over, put her on the boob and go back to sleep.

Can I ask when/how long you would leave a baby in his/her cot?

I always left DD for as long as she was happy. She was very happy as a baby to just hang out by herself (less so now... sigh)

I'm so envious of these babies! My first didn't sleep through until after 1 and not reliably all through until 2.

Second child had sleep apnea and didn't sleep through until after the op at 3.5 and even now at 4 will often wake coughing / wanting company /something.

Dd slept through from 3-6 months 7-8 every day. Since weaning its been a downwards spiral as we struggle more and more to get her off milk. She is 16 months, wirse than ever for sleep and eating!

Mine did it occasionally from about 10 months I think and now at 17 months it's probably about 1 broken night a week or so unless he's poorly. Under no illusions that it may get worse again!

He's mix fed - still has milk in the day and still has a bottle at bedtime which I feel guilty about!

Hormones are magic. At a couple of months old, a few mums of same-aged babies were proudly talking about how theirs were sleeping through, and I privately felt very proud that my (EBF) baby was growing so well and needed so much food that he couldn't possibly go that long without eating. So if you try, you can spin it round so that you're the smug wanker, if you like :)

Baby now 4m, still EBF, still bedsharing, and I think he wakes up maybe two or three times between 9pm-9am. I'll need to shift bedtime before I go back to work, I know, but I'm a night owl and would cheerfully sleep later than that if I could get away with it - so I've timed him to suit me!

DS is 11 months old. Hasn't slept through yet.

My NCT group all claim to have amazing sleepers. One in particular claimed that sleep training her son at 6 weeks with the cry it out method meant he was consistently sleeping 6pm-7am.

A month later, she proudly announced that her son had given up his night feeds, so he had been waking up after all the lying bint !

Take what others say with a pinch of salt.

DD slept for 10-12 hours for a short while between about 5 and 8 months. We've also had periods of several months when she woke up every hour.

ATM, she's 17 months and wakes up 2-4 times/night.

She's generally been a crappy sleeper.

Our DD was doing 10-12 hours from 6 weeks. She's now 1 and I can count on one hand the number of bad nights she's had since then.

One almost straight away (I was setting an alarm to wake me up to feed her in the night until she was over 11lb or something). The other still not sleeping all the way through and over 2.5. Both breastfed.

Brace yourself... Mine was almost 3 YEARS old when he first slept 7-6. Things did improve gradually though. On reflection it was my own fault for not night weaning (well I did try but he was incredibly resistant) sooner and reading too much Dr Sears hippy bullshit about how self-sacrificing I needed to be to be a good mum (or this is how I interpreted it at the time!)

Now expecting no.2 any day and although I do plan to breastfeed again I also plan to try to reduce night feeds gradually from 6 months or so rather than feeding at every whimper!

Oh simple I don't think I could be friends with you. The envy..

Mine doesn't at 16 months. My first two were between a year and 18m, my third about 2.5.

Dd1 didn't reliably sleep through the night until she was nearly four. I stopped breastfeeding when she was one, so that wasn't the problem! I tried everything, including CIO inadvertently, when I literally couldn't be bothered to drag myself out of bed one night for the fiftieth time. It didn't work. She just whined for 3 hours! (I feel bad, I'm dead against CIO). We settled on co-sleeping, which gave me the most sleep. Some babies just won't sleep through the night. Ever.

Mine slowly spaced out the night feeds and by 6/7 months woke just once at 5am. By 8 months would sleep 11 hours overnight. I don't like I start the day before 7 so bedtime was always 8pm.

He does generally does sleep 12 hours now usually 7:30-7:30 but he's 2 and knackers himself out!

20 months here. I had to night wean. We had a good six months of sleeping through the night afterwards but now all of a sudden, waking in the night again!