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To wonder when your baby slept through the night

108 replies

sepa · 03/05/2016 05:34

More for passing trade as you don't get much on the other boards.

Just wondering what age your DC(s) slept through the night and what hours you classed as through the night?

Sorry for the boring AIBU post

OP posts:
Lymmmummy · 03/05/2016 17:50

Probably 10 weeks 11pm - 6pm

CointreauVersial · 03/05/2016 17:52

I counted "sleeping through" as being the hours I was asleep, so about 10pm - 7am.

DS was 7 weeks old, DD1 was 11 weeks, DD2 about 8 weeks.

I realise I'm very lucky!

ALongTimeComing · 03/05/2016 17:57

All over the place.

Month 1-2 - up at least every 3/4 hours
Months 3-5 - slept 12/13 hours a night.
Months 5-7 - awake every 90 minutes
8-9- getting better. Maybe up once. Threw an odd night of sleeping through and then off again.
9-11 months - up once or twice a night. Co-slept from about 3/4am onwards

Gradually sleeping longer after that but taking a bit longer to settle at night! We've learned to expect the unexpected and function whatever happens.

ifgrandmahadawilly · 03/05/2016 18:03

22 months, started sleeping 11-5.30. I had to go cold turkey on night feeds for this to happen - she will woke 3 times a night to feed prior to this. I have literally no idea how I managed! These days I'm exhausted if I don't get my full 8 hours.

JoandMax · 03/05/2016 18:03

DS1 slept through (I class that as not waking me up from my bed so 10-6/7ish) reliably from around 2 - had periods of sleeping before that but never more than a week.....

DS2 is 6 and still waiting for reliable sleeping through!!

AaoograhaHoa · 03/05/2016 18:09

Oh sepa, feel for you. My ds slept like a log from a few months in, and I got comments and questions from friends, family and HVs too... Even now (7yrs), he goes to bed at 7pm and we have to wake him every morning!

He is bright, happy and doing well in school. Just a good sleeper.

Mind you so are me and OH. left to our own devices whole family could sleep right through weekends! Grin

Daffodil90 · 03/05/2016 18:22

DD 4months will go from 8-7 with two wake ups for feeds. The most she ever went is 6 hours once a couple months ago.

My question though is did any of you decrease feed amounts gradually to encourage them to go without? Wondering if/when to change to cycle and if it's even necessary, do they just stop waking up for it eventually?

MiddleAgeMiddleEngland · 03/05/2016 18:29

DC1: 4 months
DC2: never. Awake several times in the night. It's no longer a problem when they are old enough to put their light on and play quietly or read. Until then it's exhausting. She did a lot of her A level revision during the early hours, 3 am - 4 am seemed to be productive.

Sorry, this may not be encouraging.

Dakin1 · 03/05/2016 18:30

DD did once at 9 months just to let us know she could... then never has again.

Strokethefurrywall · 03/05/2016 18:35

DS1 - 11pm-6am - 10 days old. Yes. 10 days. Woke more often at 6 months whilst searching for his pacifier.

DS2 - 16 weeks when we put him in his own room. Last feed at 10.30pm, up at 7am.

All that said, sure they were great sleepers as babies but DS1 went through a fear stage at 3 years and it took a year for us to break him out of getting into our bed at 2am, and both suffered occasional night terrors (DS2 is now 2 and gets them every so often).

I found the lack of sleep when they were infants manageable. What I find less manageable is working full time, and having them sleep 8-7 95% of the time, because the one night (always a Sunday or Monday night) when they don't sleep, or have 4 night terrors in a row and instead of getting your usual 8-9 hours, you get 4 or 5 hours broken, YOU. FEEL. LIKE. HELL.

P1nkP0ppy · 03/05/2016 18:35

DD 26 months (and three days before DS was born)
He slept through the night (6pm to 6 am) aged 6 weeks!

Strokethefurrywall · 03/05/2016 18:36

And also, it is surprising how quickly you can adapt to running on 4-5 hours of sleep (although not broken sleep). I actually find myself very alert, much more so than when I get 8 hours.

Marilynsbigsister · 03/05/2016 18:49

10pm-8am

DD1 6 weeks
Ds. 6 weeks
DD2 3 weeks.

Co slept with all. It only really works in a super duper king sized bed that doesn't 'roll' when someone gets in/out. We had two Kingsized futons and I bf, so just a question of rolling over and popping one out. Don't think I even opened my eyes. (Nor did they) so no disturbed nights at all really.

All left bed of their own accord. DD1 aged 2, Ds aged3 and DD2 aged 4. All this was twenty years ago.

BiftasWifta · 03/05/2016 18:51

First child - 8 weeks
Second child - 11 months and counting!

ALongTimeComing · 03/05/2016 18:55

Daddodil no please don't reduce feeds. Small babies need milk. They go through so many developmental changes.

Original poster
sepa · 03/05/2016 18:55

daffodil I don't wake DD for night feeds anymore as she is gaining weight ok so just feeds when she asks which is usually around 3:30am after a feed at 8:30/9:00

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insan1tyscartching · 03/05/2016 19:17

All five of mine slept through from 6 weeks, 8pm to 6am. Only ever got up once in the night to any of them tbh but I had strict routines and the babies slept and woke up like clockwork.

bookworm14 · 03/05/2016 19:18

DD aged eight months started sleeping through (7pm-6.30am with a dream feed at 10.30ish) about six weeks ago, with the help of a sleep consultant. Before that she was waking multiple times and being fed back to sleep each time, and wasn't napping during the day either. I know not everyone would recommend sleep training, but I was on the brink of PND and something had to give.

Daffodil90 · 03/05/2016 19:28

alongtime & sepa thanks for that. I don't wake her for feeds, she asks around 12 and 4am and I give her the usual amount. She's never had trouble with weight (she was 9lb 3ozer to start!) But I remember HV saying something about reducing and me being Hmm but then I read it online somewhere about changing it to water and then they'd not bother waking for it (clearly suspect advice!). .....I'll stick to as we are! Thanks ladies Smile

PurpleCrazyHorse · 03/05/2016 19:38

Still waiting for it at 10mo. He wakes about 4 times a night too, which is so hard. He's therefore co-sleeping at the mo.

Will be moving him out of our room in two weeks and getting him to stay in the cot as I can't sleep with him in the bed anymore (double plus me & DH!).

FrancesNiadova · 03/05/2016 19:40

About 5 & 1/2 ...................................................................YEARS!Confused

DS 2 was about 6 weeks though! Grin

CPtart · 03/05/2016 20:03

DS1 4 months
DS2 5 months.
Several hours uninterrupted sleep. Coincided both times with stopping bf and generally not running in to every whimper and moan.

SwingingFromTheChanderlier · 03/05/2016 20:11

12-6am

DS 20 months this happened as soon as he was moved from his cot and went into a full sized single bed.

DD 4 weeks old 8-8.

Both DC slept brilliantly from there on in.

Beth2511 · 03/05/2016 20:11

My dd slept through amazingly 8pm-6am aged 14 weeks. This came to a crashing end after 4 months of bliss and now at 17 months we are nearly always 1-10 times a night!!!

JasperDamerel · 03/05/2016 20:18

Defining sleeping through as "allowing me to get 8 hours of sleep on a regular basis AND the possibility of going out in the evening or watching a TV programme without interruptions" around two and a half and three and half (years) respectively.