To ask when bad sleeper starting sleeping better ?

[Firsttimemum892]

Baby 9 months and not yet once slept through or even close. Best I get is two wakings if I am very lucky, I am back to work in 4 months and don’t know how I will cope , any positive stories of baby sleeping better post 9 months but before 12 months ?

Your friends/ other mums might have those babies that sleep through, but they'll suffer in other ways.. trust me, no one gets away scot free in this parenting gig. Don't bother comparing to others, just do your best and get rest where you can. God speed!

And i can't recommend black out blinds and a gro clock (from 18 months-ish) highly enough.

I'm still waiting for good sleep (hoping that starting school will wear him out) but I do remember the 8-10 month period as the absolute worst time for sleep so there should be improvements from now on.

Mum DS is away to turn 19 months and he is still not sleeping through - exhausted 😩

From 18 months with both of my 2, they just started sleeping through one night.

Mine was 13 months but even now at 2 and a half she maybe wakes 1-2 times a night, 3-4 times a week

I can't offer a totally positive story, as my eldest was up between 2 and 8 times a night until 6 1/2, but my youngest slept through from about 10 months. What I want to add, though. Is that you will cope with it as it comes. I worked full time at the time of non sleep, plus had the younger one, and you just find ways to cope. 5yrs on , I can't believe that I complain on the rare occasion one of them has a bad night for any reason!

DD did not sleep well, ever. It nearly broke us. She still doesn’t seem to need sleep much now, at 11 years old. We bought her an electric keyboard that she can plug into earphones and play silently last year as she likes to get up at 5am and play the piano. She just doesn’t sleep much and seems to do very well on it, but it was hard to deal with while she was too young to be up and about by herself.

Both dds started sleeping through at 4 years. (They are six years apart so that's 8 years of night waking for me)
At 11 dd1 started having problems sleeping again. She wakes up once or twice a week now.

When he started school. Obviously it's different when you're not feeding etc during the night, but the interrupted sleep is still tough.

Even now, he's 11 and he'll sometimes shout to me to let me know he can't sleep. Which is always appreciated.... He's up at the crack of dawn too, every day. Luckily he can look after himself for a while now until we get out of bed.

Dd2 is a sleeper. Dreading her being a teenager because I have to drag her out of bed at nearly 8 years old!

thanks everyone it’s nice to know I am not alone as it sometimes feels the case, I think I’ve learnt today not to have another baby

2 and a half and still no sign of it !! Maximum of 4 hours in a night and its not 4 hours straight and a daily wake up time of 4am !
I've managed ok my body learnt to survive on little sleep but as time wears on im finding it harder and harder to deal with it. throw in night shift working and my whole body is up the left doesnt know whats happening when !

DS 11 months
DD 3 years and counting

14 years after which could hardly get him out of bed.

DD is 18 months and has slept through 6 nights in her whole life. At the moment she is waking 3 or 4 times a night - I think it is the 18 month sleep regression. However I went back to work when she was 10 months and it was OK. I wasn't functioning at 100% but was able to do a good job. I wouldn't recommend going back to work if you're a surgeon or something haha!

Three years for Dc1 and three months for Dc2

Not sure my experience is going to help you.

DS was 3.5 before he slept through the night.
He was 12 before he slept through to a reasonable hour in the morning.

You cope because you have to. If you have a partner/useful help, then one way to cope is to sometimes go to bed at the same time as baby and get them to deal with the first waking. Or alternatively get them to deal with the first waking post about 5am. If your child is b/f and won't take a bottle, then get them used to drinking from a cup.

DD didn't sleep for more than an hour or hour and a half at a time until I stopped breastfeeding at 21 months, then she slept through the night for about two months, we are back to two waking per night now. Sleep deprivation is brutal

My bad sleeper is 5 and can go through most nights on her own. Once we stopped cosleeping with her younger sibling we just told her to come into the big bed if she couldn't sleep - that required minimal effort from us. Her siblings are champion sleepers.

Nothing (weaning from breast, gro clocks, blackout blinds, moving to bed) made a blind bit of difference.