Baby sleeping through the night

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At what point can you claim victory and say that your DC sleeps through the night? 7mo and two nights running. Am I jinxing myself? 😂😂

Hang in there KT. I've tried all sorts with dd - she laughs in the face of the word 'method'

By all means give things a go, but there's zero wrong with saying 'nope that's not a winner' and not pushing it to the point everyone's just unhappy.

Bonus of having a clinger is dd is at an age everyone's lamenting lack of cuddles... dd dishes them out all the time and it's lovely

DS didn't sleep through until we night weaned him at a year old. He's 20 months now and I'd say he sleeps through 6 nights out of 7 - if he's ill or teething it goes to shit but that's ok.

DS1 was dreadful until about 8 months. As a newborn he really did a number on DH and I.

Then DS2 came along and started sleeping from 2300 - 0500 by the time he was a week old.

DD just turned 2...still waiting for her to sleep through.

I was and still a really lucky with DS he slept from around 10/10:30/11 - 5/6 at about 4 months then around 7:30-6:30/7 from 7 months. He still wakes occasionally for milk but it’s wake milk and straight back to sleep if before 5am. If he’s poorly/teething he is up more.

My DS is 14 months old and despite sleeping through 5/7 nights most weeks (he even did a stint of a month sleeping through) I still don't dare say he sleeps through in case I jinx it That said the past two weeks we've had wake ups every other night for hours, which I've chalked down to separation anxiety as he's been howling

He was a nightmare between 4-8 months though - I was lucky if I managed 7 wake ups in the night some nights

All of your messages are scaring me. I am about to have a baby and I think I need to prepare myself mentally for this :)

Mine slept through from 11ish until 7 at 5 months when they started on solids. Having a fuller tummy clearly helped. Managed 7-7 at 6 months. Never looked back.
Before we got to that point, was already starting to stretch it and making it to perhaps 4 or 5 from 11. And was very happy going to bed at 7 and sleeping until the 7 am feed.

What I think really helped, as well as starting on solids, was that the day time sleep was pretty much sorted by that point. Baby was having a good long 2 hour sleep after lunch until about 2/2.30 and didn't sleep after that until bedtime at 7.....so, was ready for bed and tired, but not over tired.

Aren't the keys that they have eaten enough (milk and solids) in the daytime to get through the night without needing food, and are tired and ready to sleep but not over-tired, plus crucially they can self-settle, because we all wake through the night, but have learnt to just roll over and go back to sleep. I know different babies manage to get through the night at different points and before 6 months to sleep a full 12 hour night is unusual, but once beyond that point, I would consider looking at food intake during the day, daytime sleeps and working on self settling to help them sleep longer.

IME night wakings for milk past a certain age have got nothing to do with hunger and everything to do with habit

My DS could eat a six course meal and it made no difference - he'd still wake for milk.

Jinxed it! 🙈

Went down an hour late and back up at 3:30am.
That’ll teach me

We just cracked it at 6m with banana puree every day and a combo of hungry baby milk/follow on milk in his bottles. He only wakes once now for a feed at either 1am or 4.30am depending when he last pooped.

You know what I hate? People who's babies slept through from 3 weeks old. Smug bastards

At 18 months, when I stopped breastfeeding.

Cornet you described my little boy (21m) and me!

Define "sleep through". I'd take DS's waking up for feeds then cuddles and still needing the odd cuddle at age 4 over the 1-2 hour wake ups until age 2 that a friend had.

@splendide The image of settling a baby into a cot then opening the door to let in a full mariachi band has had me laughing out loud for the last 5 minutes. So that’s where I’m going wrong!

My baby has slept through the night since since was 8 weeks old.

My daughter will not settle unless she has the boob. She won’t take a bottle at all. She wakes every night and uses me as a comforter. How do I stop this? If I don’t give her my boob she screams. She’s 9 months