To ask when yours slept through the night?

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And did you sleep train?

First DS is 7 weeks so not expecting better sleep just yet but I've become obsessed with the sleep board which terrines me. Is bad sleep the norm or can you give me hope?

6 weeks. Never smug always desparately grateful. I always made a point of letting her lie in her basket as a newborn after she woke up because I read that babies need quiet time. It had the welcome side effect that she was was used to lying there and was happy when she woke up in the night or if she wasn't tired at bedtime and able to get back to sleep or entertain herself till she fell asleep. Some evenings she would be babbling and eventually talking and singing to herself for hours.

No sleep training but it does help to give them a minute to see if they really need you or will settle. For the first few weeks dd was up at 4 every night but once it took me a little longer to walk over to her and she was actually asleep - she just just screamed once or twice every night at that time!

I 'sleep trained' both of my DDs pretty much from day one. They were never left to cry but rather had a bedtime routine, fed and were put down in their Moses basket in the lounge with us. If they were unsettled they were cuddled until calm then put back down again.
They were both combination fed, having bottles of either formula or expressed milk from bedtime so we could both feed (back at work at 6 months with first so conscious of being able to leave her early on)

When we went to bed they were fed again and taken up with us. DD1 would then only ever wake for one more feed around 2-3am and this was done in the dark with minimal interaction and straight back in Moses basket. She dropped this feed at 7 weeks and then by 12 weeks was going 7-7.

I had no idea about sleep regression so when she suddenly started waking again around 5 months I offered some baby rice and breast milk after her mid morning feed and she went straight back to sleeping through.

We did the same with DD2 but she liked 2 feeds in the night - about 1 & 5am. This was down to 1 feed by about 5/6 weeks and by 15 weeks she was waking out of habit having a token suck and nodding straight off so we shush / patted for a couple of nights instead of feed and by 3rd night she stopped waking altogether.

I think we've been very lucky that both of them have needed very little help to sleep

We followed Gina Ford and my children slept through from 10.30 dream feed to 6/6.30 from 6 weeks and 8 weeks. There were a few relapses for growth spurts and teething but other than that they were consistent. They are now 6 & 3 and sleep from 7-7 - neither has ever slept in our bed unless poorly. There is hope, OP!

6 weeks and very rarely had a broken night's sleep even when teething. She was such a blessing as I was diagnosed with a serious illness 3 weeks after she was born and was in and out of hospital until my condition stabilised.

For roughly 11 hours fairly reliably : DD1 - 7 Weeks, DD2 - 10 weeks, DS2 - 14 weeks. Ds1 - 16 months.

I tried much harder after DS1 who was a bit of a pain! Or just lucky maybe.

Have been sleep training since 6 months (breastfed). Started sleeping 10-7 at 6 years. Now 7 yrs old, still sleep training. But not honestly hoping for much more

DS1 (now 4.3) 4mo, but rarely went before midnight and slept till 10am till 2.4yo..
DS2 is 2.4mo and still has never slept thru the night. Woke every 2 hrs till 18mo and is still usually up 1-3am most nights then up regardless at 5.30-6am. (no naps)
DD1 is 13wks old and has 4 feeds between 11pm-7am.

We have tried sleep training with DS1 and 2 but it didn't work. My dc are just shocking sleepers.

5 weeks 6 weeks

DS slept though at 8 weeks but it was a one off. He didn't sleep through reliably ie basically every night, until he started school. He's nearly 8 and still occasionally wakes up and comes looking for us. I don't really remember with DD, I suppose I didn't 'worry' about it as much. I think i'd probably guess around her 3rd birthday. Again she still wakes up some nights, she's 4.5.

So two crappy sleepers! We did some 'sleep training' but only gentle methods really, no controlled crying or anything like that.

About 9 weeks when she started sleeping through bar the 4am feed. Can't remember when she dropped that. Probably about four months.

DS reliably at about 10-12 weeks, that is from 7pm, wake him up for a dream feed before I went to bed, then until 6:30/7am. Think I dropped dream feed at about 5 or 6 months, nothing ever wakes DS up, he is a champion sleeper. DD about 8 months, she woke to feed 3-4 times in the night before that, once she was weaned and eating 2 good meals a day she dropped her night time feeds very quickly and slept 7-6:30.

When they started school [apologetic emoticon].

SEN in the mix, although only found that out later .

This is my first baby, she is 18 days old born 3 weeks early and im breast feeding but topping up with forumla however my daughter doesnt sleep at night. We change her nappy, feed, wind she sleeps on us fine then when we put her down in her moses basket she cries we barely get any sleep! Is this normal? Any suggestions on getting her to sleep in her moses basket?

"They sleep through at some point????

Someone please tell my 19 mo"

I remember a reunion of my antenatal group when the children were, coincidentally, about 19 months old. Of the eight children, only one had begun to sleep through the night before the age of 12 months and was still doing so.

Sometimes I have to bite my tongue hard when the parents of a young baby mention that their child is sleeping through the night. I am SO tempted to say, "Don't worry, it's probably just a phase"

user sounds normal, rrmver she could quite feasibly not even be born yet!! 18 days is very, very young.

Try - make sure her Moses basket is not cold - arm with s hot water bottle (then take it our!)))).

• put her down with a t shirt you have been wearing so she can smell you.
• Swaddling or a least tucking her in just tight enough for the sheet to apply some pressure.

Ds1 slept through at 4 months, some broken nights until he was 1 then he slept 12hrs reliably every night.
Ds2 first slept through aged 3yrs! He didn't do it every night until about 3.5.

user14 there are a few things you can try...

swaddling so she doesn't startle herself awake.
Getting her to fall asleep in the basket so she doesn't wake up somewhere unfamiliar (I think this is very hard for newborns- impossible with mine!)
Holding her for 20 minutes so that she's in a deep sleep before you put her down

I like shush pat because you can do it whilst you're holding them to begin with then if they start to wake up when you put them down, you can start it again without holding them to resettle quickly.

We never really sleep trained, although we've always had a strong bedtime routine and from 12 months, we go to them if they wake in the night, calm them and leave them to go back to sleep (repeating if necessary). DS1 didn't sleep through the night until 19 months and even then, usually woke at least once for a while. He's just turned four and now reliably sleeps 7.30-7.30, and has done for about 18months.

With DS2 we were keener to leave him to go to sleep in his basket from the outset and he did, but from 4 months he became a nightmare. He's now 17 months and sleeps 7-5, 5.30-7.

I feel your pain OP. When you're in the midst of it, it is a killer, but they are only small for a very short time. It will get better.

User - my 14wk old has been held almost constantly by me (or occasionally someone else) since she was born. She sleeps on me with my boob in her mouth. My others were similar and we still co-sleep with all 3 of them. We just bought a bigger bed to fit everyone in!

2.5 years old and still waiting

User14; 18 days is still so tiny - she was cocooned by you less than 3 weeks ago. Is her moses basket warm? Do you swaddle her? Have you tried a Sleepyhead or similar? My ds was the same - we coslept and still do at 15mo. He just likes being near me, as your dd does you. And despite what some others might say, it's totally natural and normal.

Have no idea what sleep training is
Mine sleep through from 10mths

Never sleep-trained, co-slept as babies and young toddlers.

DC1 slept through at 4, DC2 mostly sleeps through at nearly 5.

That's years by the way, not months.