To think this isn't true

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Completely open to being told iabu, as I simply haven't experienced this, however was reading a thread today on Instagram where baby sleep was being discussed. One poster put that their baby woke every 30 minutes until they were 2 years old! Is that really possible? It sounds beyond horrendous. I know this can be true in the early months, but 2 years....that can't be normal?

Oh I'd believe it. People are more likely to brag or rather lie that their little angel sleeps from 8pm-8 am., but it might be over exaggerated due to the lack of sleep.
I mean the timing in itself every half hour doesn't add up. Babies take at least that time to settle back to sleep by the time you've fed winded changed them, so That world mean both mum and baby are getting no sleep at all.

My dd used to wake hourly during the night for 10/11 months, and as spider says you would just drop off when she woke again.

Almost 9 years later its a struggle to get her out her bed now.

I’d say so. Mine as a newborn slept 5 hours in 24 until he was 9 weeks old! I was told it was normal at the time but I believe that it’s completely abnormal!

@thetaste hourly for the first year I totally believe, 30 mins until 2 years I find a bit astonishing.

DS1 did this, except after 18 months it was more like every hour and it lasted until he was 5. DS2 was every 20 minutes for the first year, then much better after that. Both are autistic and apparently that’s common. It’s fucking exhausting though!

My son is nearly 2. He sleeps until 3 then wakes every 30 mins. Maybe they're focusing on that awful stretch if they have something similar?

From the time my Ds was born in March, to the time he finally got diagnosed with CMPA in August, he woke up every two hours, taking a good 90 minutes to get back to sleep. Even in the day time. If he wasn't sleeping he was screaming.

We was absolutely exhausted and it nearly broke us.

I was about to comment that my DC who was a terrible terrible sleeper as a baby still is has SEN.

So yes, perfectly possible. Define "normal".

Define "normal"

DS1 was told at School that he’s not normal, so he asked me to define it. My response was “oh pal I’m not the person to ask, I’ve no flipping idea what normal is!” (I did follow it up with, but you’re bloody perfect as you are and that boy is a twat)

DD1 never slept for longer than 2 hours in a row until just before her 3rd birthday. By that time, DD2 was 3 months old. She never slept for more than 2 hours in a row until she was 2.5 years. Absolutely horrific. DH never got up to them and I somehow managed to work FT.

Mine were hourly for 2 years. Could be 30 minutes for part of the night at least quite regularly. They both sleep all night now (3 and 5) although the eldest has never needed much sleep and is rarely asleep before 10 these days. She has to be in her room from 7.30 tho.

Mine did. Every single night until almost three then about once an hour until 4.

DD1 hourly until she was a year. Then slowly started waking less. She's now 2.5 and only just sleeps 10pm-5am

My first would wake every half hour for the first year. At 10months I returned to work, so had ten hour days to contend with on top of getting no more than 25mins unbroken sleep at a time every night. Less sometimes, if I dared to try put him down.
I ended up sticking him in my bed and cosleeping as a coping mechanism, he could breastfeed and I’d barely come to when he latched on.
God those days felt like one long never ending day... Groundhog Day springs to mind. Hell. I don’t know how I lasted.

Anything is possible. It must be bloody exhausting.

aawlook why assume people brag or lie about long sleepers?

One of my dc slept from 7pm until 6.30am from around 9 weeks. Yes I was fortunate. No it's not a brag or a lie. Or should I lie to make others feel great? It is what it is. I wouldn't run someone's nose in it if they said they'd not slept for days because of a waking baby but I'm certainly not going to lie!

And sorry OP for going off at a tangent on your thread but it irks me that you can't say you have a good sleeper/eater/crawler etc etc without feeling guilty that you'll offend someone or be accused or lying or bragging. Anyway, apologies.

My DGD was like this until she was about a year old. She was lactose intolerant and had acid reflux which didn't help matters. I swear she never slept longer than an hour for the first 3 months of her life. Her mum (my DD) would be up with her at least 8 times a night,between 11pm and 7pm. Even when she DID sleep,she was restless and fidgety. She's 11 years old and an absolute angel,who loves her sleep.

God I can't believe that some of you have experienced this and are alive to tell the tale! How on Earth did you survive for years like that? What did they need from you every 30 minutes?
DD is 11 months old and waking once or twice for a feed...I will go to bed tonight feeling like I won the lottery! Ds is due in April and I'm not sure reading this has helped in my worry over getting them.both sleeping...woopsie!

I had both sides of this. And one in between

Dd1 slept a solid 6 hours from 6 weeks old, and was sleeping 7-7 by 16 weeks (I lifted her for a dream feed, as was concerned about her sleeping so long - she slept through it )

Dd2 didn’t sleep more than 3 hours until 5 months, then slowly improved. By 12 months she was sleeping through, but was awake from 5am, and remained an early waker until she was 9ish.

Ds was a horrendous sleeper. Woke every 45 minutes well past 18 months. Slept through sometime around 2.5ish (it’s all a haze, tbh). I honestly don’t know how I functioned, especially with two older ones to entertain/look after (and dd1 is severely disabled).

But we got through it. Somehow.

Some sleep - some don't. If someone tells me their baby wakes up on the hour every hour until they are 2 - I would believe them. Why would anyone lie? Mine slept through the night - not a lie either, just being honest.

My little boy woke hourly until he was 2 and a bit.. we went through phases where it was genuinely every 30/45 mins, (well from when he fell back asleep) I used to write them down in my phone in my notes so I know I wasn't exaggerating!
He's two and a half now and thankfully he now wakes every 2/3 hours which is more manageable!
But I believe it completely!

My DS2 woke up every 20mins and would only go to sleep on me. This lasted until he was 18months old. He had undiagnosed medical issues and once those were addressed he slept through.

It was utterly bizarre cos' when he was sleeping through all my missed sleep caught up with me and I would be in bed at 7.30pm every night for about 3 months.

But we survived. Somehow.
My first born never had an issue sleeping so this was a shocker.

Do they mean fully awake and ready to get up and play for an hour or two? My 7 month old would stir and reach out for me every half an hour or so at times especially early evening. If he doesn't find me he cries til I come and give him a cuddle and put his dummy in. If I'm beside him he drifts straight back off to sleep.

Do most children sleep through the night at two? I don’t know many who did. One of mine was six and woke me time and time again all night. I work with someone who has never had an unbroken night in eleven years as her DCs all wake and go into her bed at different times.