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?

I did not and will not sleep train.

DD slept through for the first time at around 10 months, but didn't do it consistently until around 16/17 months. She's 21 months now.
DS is 13 weeks old, so not a chance of him sleeping through yet - we get good 4hr stretches between feeds at night and then he goes straight back to sleep afterwards though, which is amazing! My DD never did that! It would take an hour of rocking after a feed to get her back down.

IMO the younger you start trying to get the good habits, the better as babies that can stand up to protest, do!

Definitely!!!

I'm currently pregnant with DC2 and after the absolute hell I went through with DS I intend to start implementing strategies/routines that our Sleep Consultant gave us from a much younger age to prevent it from happening again.

Currently 9 weeks and has slept through (8hrs+) since about 4.5 weeks old. Every since we put him in his own room really. Think I've been up once or twice in the last month, but it's normal for him to sleep in excess of 10hrs. We're VERY lucky though, I appreciate this is definitely not the norm.

6 weeks and 8 weeks! Lucky me!

My 26 month old 'slept through' for the first time last night! She didn't wake me for 6.5 hours. Who know is it will happen again but it was good!

Because the lack of sleep has gone on for so long I ended up taking a similar approach to Womanscorned and stopped expecting it. If it happened it was a bonus.

I didn't sleep train.

6/7 weeks with both - no sleep training but definitely routine helped

Still waiting at nearly 3. (Yes I have read and heard all the sleep advice in existence!)

I do think a large portion of it is due to genetics and luck. I didn't sleep through until around 4 myself, despite my parents trying everything up to and including just leaving me to cry. My brothers/sisters, meanwhile, slept through from about 6 months, and as adults they still need lots more sleep than I do.

Mine started sleeping through for about 5-6 hours at 5 weeks. Now 10 weeks and goes up to 10 hours between feeds (10pm-8ish) but will wake once or twice in the night. She normally just settles with a little pat and a dummy rearrange.

I am under absolutely no illusion that this will continue however, I'm just grateful that I can get a few week's sleep before she inevitably regresses.

The slight downside is that she won't really nap in the day or if she does, she has to lie on me. Small price to pay however!

From 6 months, still with a dream feed at 11pm
From 7 months, 7pm-7am
Has an 'off' week here and there because of holidays, developmental leap etc but so far always gets back to the same routine. He is 2 now.

From when he was about 8 weeks we just kind of fell into a routine that fit, feeding at 7pm, 11pm, then he would always wake at around 4am, and then up at 7am. Like a clock, so predictable. Then at 6months dropped the 4am feed, this is when we decided it was fine for him to sleep alone in his nursery. I kept coming in at 11pm to feed him for a few more weeks, sometimes having to wake him up until one night he absolutely refused and it was pretty clear he just wanted to go back to sleep.

Did not do sleep training but always tried to stick to routine. Always putting him down into his cot instead of rocking (even if I had to pick him up and put him down tens of times before he was finally happy).

DC1 slept through from 11 weeks, no problems and slept all night every night.

DC2 didn't sleep through until 2.5 years old, didn't sleep train, seemed pointless as he just wasn't ready to spend 12 hours asleep. He's 4 now and averages 10 hours with no issues.

I agree that you can help them find a routine from quite early but you have to be realistic and take your cue from the baby. All you can really do in the early weeks is encourage them in the right direction and that begins with very gently beginning to teach them the difference between night and day. I've never been one to insist on silence in the house for daytime naps, for example. They need to know that daytimes are bright and busy and nights are quiet and dark. Ime once you crack 'bedtime' the rest begins to fall into place with hopefully very little intervention. People can get so hung up on routine that they stop 'reading' their babies correctly. All of a sudden they begin to panic when their baby becomes unsettled due to growth spurts, regression, illness, immunisations etc. Babies aren't robots and like us their sleep habits will chop and change over time. I can't bear it when I hear people say "My ds is 2 weeks old and I'm trying to get him into a bit more of a routine", particularly when they're breastfed. I was one of those people (read GF, Baby Whisperer etc) and it robbed me of the happiness of those early days and newborn cuddles. Ds is a great sleeper. Dd is heading in the right direction. All I did was read their cues and gently nudge them in the right direction.

20 months and just about there ish 😉

DD1, 2 years, DD2, 7 years.

Tried every sleep training method multiple times with both of them. Nothing worked! DD 1 started sleeping when she moved out of a cot into a bed and DD2 when we discovered she had food intolerances.

My DS started sleeping 7-7 at 6 months. He sleeps in bed with us (this wasn't the plan haha) but I know he probably wouldn't sleep through if he was in his cot.

15 months and still waking up at least once and for the past 2 weeks taking an hour and a half to go back down. Feel like I've read every book out there. Sleep training just didn't work for us - DS is a stubborn little thing and I think (hope) will just do it when he's ready. (Let it be soon PLEASE!)

Sleep deprivation should not be underestimated, it has been incredibly tough emotionally and physically on all involved to the point that though I would love number 2 in the next year, the idea terrifies me in case I have another bad sleeper!

Taken it out of me for sure, has aged me no end, work is a nightmare. But even after all that I wouldn't change a thing!

I didn't really sleep train, I BF & co-slept both babies.

DD1 didn't sleep though until about 2.5 years old. I made a rod for my own back everyone told me. Really? EXCEPT THAT DD2 slept though (last feed about 10.30pm) from about 11 - 7am.

At 13 months when I stopped bf at night and no longer co-slept

About 19 months for DS1, 5 weeks for DS2. DS3 slept through from 7 weeks to 6 months and then has never slept through consistently again-he's now 4 and I am on my knees with years of exhaustion.

And I bf and initially co slept with them all. DS2 was a v late heavy baby though and I'm sure it helped his sleep.

Ds1 was 6 weeks, ds2 was 3 but still wakes up sometimes(now 4), ds3 is 9 months and sleeps through about 50% of the time.

Around 8 weeks she was waking around midnight and 3am for a feed.

She's 15 weeks now and for the last few weeks has slept more, and now sleeps through 7pm - 6am.

Around 7 months for no wake ups between 7 -6ish Before that he was only waking up once about 2am from about 3 months. Dropped milk at night about 5 months. We didn't deliberately sleep train, but we probably did do some as I always put him down awake and I never rushed in when he cried so he often went back to sleep by himself. Obviously we've had teething, illness, developmental leaps, random screaming in the night for no apparent reason, but so far he's 19m and he normally sleeps 11-12 hours a night and one 2-3 hour nap in the day

15mo and still waiting.... he did do a few nights of about 10pm to 5am. But very few. Ebf and still feeding like a newborn now. I don't subscribe to sleep training. It will pass.

8 weeks, 6 weeks and 7 weeks.
I am a firm believer in a bedtime routine from birth and sleeping in their own rooms from day 1. I don't believe in 'snuggly cuddles' and general nonsense when they wake at night and I don't believe in taking your cue from baby - you are the adult.
I am usually shot down in flames for saying this.