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).

I class sleeping through the night as sleeping 12 hours (ish). So in that case my twins slept through when they were 2.5 years old. However from around 6 months they did sleep from 9pm until around 3-4am and then back down until around 6 which i guess most people would class as STTN.

My nearly 10 month old (8 months corrected) does exactly the same as yours on a good night.

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

That's the luck of the draw though, I don't believe for one minute that it's due to our parenting abilities. Our next will probably a complete nightmare!

When ours was a baby we could lurch between 10 and 5 at about 12 weeks sort of most of the time kind of. We were and are routine meisters. If the vast majority of your NCT class say 7-7, then I would speculate that they are fibbers playing parental Top Trumps. Take your pinch of lo - sodium salt to the next meeting.

My DD slept through from about 4 months-a decent 9 hour stretch. However, at about 9 months she kept waking up during the night for a month or so. No idea why she wasn't upset it was just like she didn't want to miss out on anything!
She was BF and other people I knew with babies of similar ages it didn't seem to make much difference whether they were BF or FF on their sleeping.

My daughter was sleeping through at 7 weeks old, i know im lucky but she has had her bad nights where shes been awake for hours and im just pleading with her to sleep shes been a great sleeper i think she gets it from me i do love my sleep

Both dc slept 7-7 from 6 weeks old. There has been times when they've woken earlier/slept later/woken in the night of course but generally speaking they have both been, and still are at 5&3, fantastic sleepers.

DS1 from 6 months started sleeping through, has woken in the night only a handful of times since (12 years later) - no sleep training, breastfed til 14 months, no dummy

DS2 didn't sleep through at all until nearly 3, only began sleeping through reliably when 4/5, stopped waking up several times a month age 7/8 - breastfed til 12 months, sleeping training attempted but wholly unsuccessful, dummy until 3

DD - started sleeping through 11pm-7/8am at 7 weeks!!! Carried on sleeping through til 5 months, had a nasty bug, stopped sleeping, now wakes up once to 3/4 times a night depending on whether teething and she's 18 months. Still breastfeeding, no dummy, no sleep training attempted (and won't try given the disastrous attempts with DS2).

DS had bad reflux - puked all over his cot up to 3 times a night and didn't start doing 7pm - 7am until he was 9.5 months. I bottle fed him from 8 weeks.

DD1 did 7pm - 7am at 11 weeks. She didn't have reflux, colic or anything else. She was bottle fed from 6 weeks.

DD2 did 7pm - 7am at 5.5 months. She had silent reflux and was lactose intolerant but we didn't pick that up until around 4 months. Once I'd got her on lactose-free milk it took about 6 weeks for her to sleep through. She was bottle fed from 12 weeks.

Mine all had comfort blankets, sleeping bags and black out blinds, not sure if any of that made a difference.

First child went to sleep about 7pm-ish, woke at 1am and 5am for feeds and went back to sleep until 7.30am-ish until he was about 18 mths old. He then developed the joyous habit of sleeping 7.30pm-about 4.30am and being awake for the day after that...until he was about 2.5 yrs old. I preferred the night wakings!

Second child slept 7pm-7am from about 6 weeks old, and has never deviated (now 7 yrs old!).

They are all so different.

DC1 slept 7-7 from 11 weeks, always a great sleeper.
DC2 didn't get the night time thing at all and only started sleeping through at 2.5. As a PP said if he miraculously did sleep more than 6 house in a row he would be up at 3.48am on the dot for the day. He's now 3.2 and an earthquake wouldn't wake him, I have to wake him up almost every morning

After our great experience with ds sleeping through from so early (we actually never talked about it with friends who spent 5 years of interrupted nights with their 2 ds) dh and I did often say to each other that when we had another one, we'd have to have signs laminated and put up all around saying, "Remember, they're all different"

Unfortunately ds never got a sibling for us to test that out

My baby slept from about 8pm until about 6 or 7am from about a month old, I'd then feed and change him and he'd go down for another couple of hours. We thought 'we've got this down' and then at 5 months it turned AWFUL. He'd wake a few times a night, need a feed and nappy change and then get up between 5 and 6am. He also lost his ability to go to sleep with only the help of his star show . We sort of got used to it and I was a bit surprised when HV seemed so shocked at our recent check-up. So I made the effort to try to settle him without food, it sometimes worked but sometimes meant that I'd spend ages trying to settle him then after an hour or so he'd go crazy and I'd need to give him a feed anyway, so it was pretty tiring. I kept on at it though and I think we have made progress (fingers crossed) and for the past week or so he's only needed a little cuddle back to sleep rather than a feed. PLEASE let it last! Hope your DS sleeps through soon.

Your DS sounds normal.My DS is 13 mo. Only in the past few weeks he started sleeping something approaching through the night, which in his case is 7-7:30 sleep, wake up some time between 3-6 am for a feed, then sleeps again till 7ish. Before he would wake up 2-3 times during the night. Now it is just once. I am happy with that.

DS is 4. DD is 2. Both still wake. Sorry!

DS is nearly 8 and still wakes up in the night but at least now he tends to settle himself (goes to the loo, sorts out his covers - he tends to throw them off), when he was a baby he woke up to feed until he was about 16mths old. We went through a phase of night terrors from 12 - 20mths that were truly awful. I've just accepted that he's got a pattern, thankfully now he's good at going to bed and gets up on his own and sorts out his breakfast, getting dressed etc.
Every child/baby and every family is different so don't compare yourself to others too much, it just takes a while to get used to.
We're expecting no.2 in a few weeks so I am trying to prepare for that night time waking again.