To get arsey when people tell me my baby should be sleeping through..

[ethelfleda]

My mother this time....
DS is 5 and a half months and doesn't sleep through yet. Some nights are worse than others but I've stopped checking the time and just co-sleep and feed lying down. I have resigned myself to the fact that he may not for a while and that's that and I can survive and it will all be fine

Then the look of horror on my mother's face as she says "he should have started sleeping through long before now..." fills me with rage.

And all the magic babies belonging to all the women at baby group who sleep from 7 until 7 don't help either

Maybe I should just lie next time and say yes, he is and leave it at that.

Sorry spider I agree with your sentiment and I agree nobody should be smug about their baby not waking up at night but it's simply not true to say no 5 month olds sleep all night. Some do. Fact.