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?

Both mine stopped waking for a feed at 12 weeks, so went from about 10/11 until 7am. One was breastfed and the other bottle fed

DS1 - 3 weeks (which was the point I switched from BF to FF)

DD - 16 weeks (Which was when I switched from BF to FF)

DS2 - 3 weeks (also the point I switched from BFto FF)

DD1 was 8 weeks when she slept probably from 7-7 bar the odd rough/teething night.

DD2 was well over a year. Both were bottle fed.

10mo but we did have to sleep train. He now sleeps 7-5/6. However no teeth yet so we will no doubt have some bad nights in the near future.

Ds2 is five.

If he's in our bed (or DD's) from the start he sleeps through. If he goes to sleep in his bed he comes in in the middle of the night and snuggles in. He doesn't wake us though.

You'll find a way that works even with the worst sleeper, I promise.

Properly, so say 9pm until 6am, about a year. I'd never heard of sleep training, I just went with my (at times incorrect) instict and had a very strict routine and put her in her cot in her room (I'd also never heard of co sleeping). Personally I think my saviour was her dummy so she sort of self soothed and also I stroked her head until she was dozing. I was a bit harsh too at times, I wasn't one for keep going in at every whimper as it just woke her up more. I probably sound an awful mother actually. It was more luck than anything.

All of mine somewhere between 4 and 5 years! But they don't need quite so much time and tending to when they wake as they get older. For me the worst time was they were about 10 months and woke in the night wanting to play...

Both mine about 4 weeks. I realise I'm lucky and it has nothing to do with my (probably average) parenting skills.

I'm PG now so no doubt now I've said that this one will be nocturnal.

DS - mid way through Year 6, so 10 years old!
DD1 - 6-8 months
DD2 - 6-8 months

We tried everything with DS. Controlled crying - disaster, co-sleeping - no difference, bedroom temperature, bedding, air purifier, etc. and all for a reasonable period of time. DS also had (mild) eczema, nightmares, night terrors and allergic rhinitis. He's also a exceptionally intelligent and find it very hard to switch off. We started a bedtime routine around 3 months when they starting sleeping 7-11pm upstairs then I would feed them as I was going to bed. We had no choice but to wait until he was ready but I think it was more the case that he stopped needing us rather than necessarily slept through. He's now 17 and sleep is an issue once again.

The girls on the other hand have been fine! They are having some of the normal teenage sleep issues but, ostensibly, are fine.

Dd was 16 weeks and went 12 hours. D's was 3 and a half.

DD was 4 weeks and went 8 hours, slowly increased and she was doing 10 hours by 8 weeks. Now 6 months and sleeps 12 hours, maybe once a week wakes for dummy once in the night. We went through sleep regression at 4 months which lasted 3 weeks.

If we have another I am not expecting to be so lucky.

Teenagers have sleep issues?

"Just to point out that cry it out is often confused with controlled crying. Cc is completely different.

Full on cry it out where you literally just leave them to scream isn't really done any more"

Unfortunately I know people who do still do this Bibblewanda

DS from the night he was born had to be woken for feeds, I think I stopped waking him at about 3 weeks and he'd go from 9pm to 7am

DD is 8 years and still gets up at least once a night, often twice, had she been my first she'd definitely be an only child!

Both of mine slept overnight for about six to seven hours (covering our sleeping hours) by six weeks exactly. One was bottle fed and a good size, the other was smaller and breastfed. I was just lucky.

12 -6ish at 5 weeks. Dropped their 'dream feed' at about 3 months, so would go about 9pm- 6am at that age. All bottle fed. They still woke up when poorly or teething at times though.

DD (20)... still waiting! She does have a sleep disorder, though, which she was born with, but even now she will sleep for an hour, wake up, sleep for three hours, wake up... be unable to sleep for the rest of the night.

DS (12)... like bear said above, had an issue with which was day, and which was night. That took a while to train him out of, because as a newborn, you want them to sleep during the day, really. However, DS would sleep all day and then be awake all night, to start off with. Then we worked it out, and all was well. If I remember rightly, he was about 9 or 10 months old when he slept fully through the night.

When DS was confused about day versus night, though, I remember one of the midwives saying that she wasn't surprised at all, given that he was born at one in the morning. Apparently, babies who are born during the night do tend to be horrific sleepers for a while, whereas if they're born during the day... they're not. I'm not sure that I fully believe this, but there's probably a grain of truth in there (primal instincts, blah, blah, blah...).

They do tend to figure it out eventually, though.

Youngest 4 years and doesn't sleep through. First 6 months hourly night feeds then would wake 3-4 times a night for the next year.

Sleep train/controlled crying, absolutely not. I wouldn't leave a grown adult crying so why would I leave my baby who cannot communicate their needs? It certainly works for some but the research I read (having tried a couple of nights starting at 1 minute when I desperately needed sleep)was enough to show the stress response in babies was not worth it.

First one, the golden child, the Angel, slept 13 hours a night from around five and a half months. Glorious.

Of course as a toddler he started getting night terrors so was then up multiple times a night for years.

The other two were around 4 before being vaguely reliable but really they just sort of slipped from waking for feeds and stuff to waking for hugs after bad dreams and stuff.

If it is any comfort we never hear from the 8 year old any more. The 10 year old only wakes if he is having bad joint pain (hypermobile) and the 4 year old just moans once a night or so to have the landing light put on because he is afraid of the dark or if he is having joint pain as he is also hypermobile.

Still waiting - age 5 and nearly 3.

Sorry OP. Gets much less frequent though.

DS slept through first at 7 months but still had nights where he didn't. We didn't sleep train although we were days away from it when he slept through.
He's now 2.5 and sleeps 8 to 7. He's just started sleeping to 7 though. We've had a lot of early mornings...but since he sleeps solidly through until he wakes it hasn't been too bad. I'm due DD in a few weeks and keeping fingers crossed for a decent sleeper...

Last night - she slept 9 until 6.30 this morning and it was bloody bliss! We have had the odd sporadic long block of sleep - think 5 hours, normally she wakes about 4 or 5 times a night. She was 2 last week.

In contrast my first slept through from 6 weeks (10 - 6) and didn't sleep train.

DD now 14 slept through from 6.5 weeks large breast fed baby. Only been up a handful of times in her childhood when poorly

DS now 13 slept through at 6 weeks, large bottle fed baby again like DD never up in the night unless poorly

Both gently sleep trained as I have ME and needed as much rest as possible and as DD had been so good that's why we had DS so quickly 15 month gap

The flip of that is that as they entered pubity they both needed melatonin to get to sleep due to high functioning autism

But DS is still such a good sleeper that if we're in the car on a long journey he always nods of after 10mins just like a baby

No sleep training. 3y with the first and 14m with the second