To ask when yours slept through the night?

[blue2014]

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?

7 weeks is way too early. DD slept through at 3 months but DS (twin brother) didn't sleep through until 4.5 years! Get a really good sleep book and read it for tips to help you decide if there is anything else you can do to help your baby sleep through.

My DD is now 3 years 5 months and is now waking up 3 times a night, screaming and crying for an hour that she want kisses, cuddles, high fives. You then give her these things then she does not want them and runs away. Then she keeps running into our room, so we put her back in her bed and keep doing this for an hour until she gives up?

Is there an easier way? Help!!!

3.5 YO! And then he didn't do it again for about six months. Even now he wakes me in the night around 3 times a week...

Not what you want to hear, sorry!

Ramona - it's all for attention good or bad. So just be really boring. No high fives or other stuff. Tell her before bed if she comes in she will go straight to back to bed. When she comes in don't turn on a light/ talk/loo at her just walk her back to bed slowly. Put her in and first time say goodnight. 2nd and then the next 250 times just boringly walk her back. Repeat for a few nights. Tell her in three day how amazing she will be tonight when she doesn't get out of bed. Tell everyone you meet the same. Don't get cross/change it.

I was obsessed with getting mine to sleep. I have bipolar and lack of sleep is a huge trigger so read up all the studies I could find.

Mine slept through from 9, 8 and 5 weeks (which to me meant going to sleep at about 7pm having a dream feed at 10pm and waking up anytime after 6pm) Though they all had sleep regression at about 5 months so ended up at about 8 months doing sleep training. At various times have also done the above technique as after illness (when they sleep with us) or night terrors, they have got into a routine of waking up.

Mines 9 weeks old and has feeds at 2am & 7am. I'm coping much better with this than I was when he was waking every 2 hours for a feed :O

Thanks for the tips, I'll try anything! 🙏

She started doing 9 hours with a break for a feed at 6 hours at 6 weeks, then increased the time without a feed to 6-7hours at 8 weeks. She is now 13 weeks and does 11 hours with a feed after 8.5 hours most nights. She has done this herself without any encouragement from me but the downside is she refuses to nap all day! She will fall asleep for 20-30mins on me once or twice a day but thats as good as it gets. I have tried everything possible but she refuses to go to sleep, let alone stay asleep. We all have our own challenges!

DS started sleeping through at 2 years 3 months.

DT1 has slept through from 6 weeks. 10pm to 7am. Not kidding!!

DT2 sleeps through most nights, 10-6, from around 3 months old.

No training involved. I think a big bottle of expressed breastmilk before bed did it with the twins. That's just my guess. They're much, much easier babies than DS so it may just be a personality thing.

I have two daughters, now 4.5 years old and almost 2 years old. Both slept through (7pm until 7am) from 7/8 weeks of age ...

However, since the eldest turned 2.5 years old, she frequently wakes in the night asking for a drink or for me to put the covers back on her.

My premie DD slept from sleepyfeed at 10.30 till between 5 and 6am at 4 and a half months ..but l followed the Gina Ford routine from 4 weeks old....l never left her to cry and never made her wait for feeds....l say this rather unnecessarily as so many think GF is a harsh routine!

l found it anything but...The Contented Baby Book was my absolute lifesaver as l was quite ill for 3 months after..my DD settled easily into the routines and despite being tiny was happy, healthy and slept like clockwork.....oh and l BF with a late night formula feed, done by DH.

For me knowing when nap time and feed times were gave me a freedom from the tyrany of sleepless nights and endless feeding never knowing if it was enough...

Read the book and see ..

Dragongirl. You are a brave woman. Any mention of routine or - shock horror - doing anything not 'baby-led' can mark you out as a cruel witch on MN!
I find it quite frustrating that some posters are at such pains to pint out that everything is at baby's bidding and gentle in the early months, then don't understand why their toddler does not sleep later on. Teach 'em young, I say!

Still waiting after 5 years