To ask if tour child just magically started sleeping through?

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Without any controlled crying/crying it out. Did they just turn a corner in their own and being to sleep better?

At my wits end work lack of sleep with ds3 - 12 months. Never had this with my other 2 dcs

DC1 slept through at around 2.5 years(ish) with no interventions, woke maybe around 2x a night which reduced then stopped.

DC2 was still waking at night at 3 years (we also had a newborn), we did gradual retreat which took around 4-5 months of consistent presence, reassurance and slowly removing ourselves from her room.

DC3 is almost 7, she has ASN and still wakes frequently throughout the night with behavioural and/or medical needs.

Waking in the night is torturous but it is transient, I know it feels like everyone else’s lo’s are sleeping without issue but your lo will get there also.

Yes ours did! Not sure what caused it but at about 10 months they just started doing it

Yep, needed to night wean first though. But as soon as we did that she went from 3-5 wake ups a night to sleeping through. 16 months.

Yes for all three but not before the age of 2 unfortunately! I don’t believe in leaving them to cry

Yes, both my dc did. We tried everything other than controlling crying/CIO which I am opposed to. Nothing worked. Both my dc went from waking every 2-3 hours to sleeping through about half the time at 18 months, and waking once a night when they didn't sleep through. This then improved until they slept through every night by about 3.

It was really hard at the time, but it did pass and I am pleased that we didn't do controlled crying. Both my dc are good sleepers now. I just think dc are ready to sleep through at different ages.

Yep! Took til he turned 2 and suddenly he just slept!

(Obviously there was a bit of crying involved in the night weaning process but she wasn’t ever left to cry it out, from memory DH stayed in the room and settled/sang to her until she slept. Didn’t take that long, was sleeping through within 2-3 nights.

Yes around 11 months. Mostly a developmental thing but we did also start doing a bath every night around the same time.

She was breastfed and still is (15 months now) but we did start putting her in her cot with a bottle, dummy and teddy. She gets so overstimulated that she needs to be completely alone and breastfeeding then putting down was no longer working. We never let her to cry and if she wanted to BF I did.

Before that it was every 2 hours and I thought there was no end in sight.

I’m half expecting her to start waking up again but for now she’s doing 11 hours and I feel like a human again.

One day you may find it gradually starts getting better. How many times is he currently waking up?

My first started sleeping through with no intervention... at 3.5 years old. She nearly broke me.
DD2 started sleeping through at 15 months. We didn’t ‘intervene’ but did night wean (offered water instead of milk) and she started sleeping through when we put her in a room with her sister.
DS is 8 months and his sleep is currently atrocious. I haven’t got the energy to do anything about it 😩.
However intervention doesn’t necessarily mean leaving them to cry, as some posters presume. There are gentle sleep training methods, and programmes such as ‘little ones’ which can help encourage babies to sleep through the night.

Yes, at about 13 months. I think he was knackered from starting nursery tbh. Prior to that he'd been generally waking just once per night and had had periods of sleeping through for a week or two, but they always got interrupted by colds/teething

Yes at nearly 4. Has consistently slept through for 6 weeks I've started exercising and wearing make up with my new found energy

From about 9 months my dd started to sleep right through 8-8. Before that she woke for cuddles and her dummy and even though now she will wake up and grizzle for a minute or so, it’s just her trying to find her dummy.

I feel for you as the sleepless nights are just awful.

I was breastfeeding both of mine during the night until I night weaned them, and put them in their own beds at 18 months. (used to Co sleep) this reduced night waking but they both started sleeping through the night naturally at 2 and a half. I'm pregnant with my third and I really hope they start sleeping through the night sooner than the first two!

Yes. Baby 1 at 6 months and baby 2 at 8 months. Both eating more food at that point. Just woke up in the morning to find it wad light outside.

Child 1 sleeping went to shit at age of 4 due to anxiety (later ASD diagnosis) and Child 2 sleeping goes to shit with illness/development/emotional stuff. We enjoyed it while it lasted.

Yes, first one did it at 10 months, second one has just started at almost 2 years ( but has been gradually dropping wake ups since about 18 months)

We have comforted them both every time they have woken up and treated them the same way.

The vast majority of children do get there in the end, in their own time. Hang in there!

Yes, and we lay awake wanting to check she was ok. I can’t remember exactly how old, but 16-18 months I think/ We couldn’t believe our luck

Yes - but one of them was 4 years old and the other was 10 months. Didn't do anything different with either of them.

Yes mine did and I didn't do controlled crying or sleep training. When they are ready they will sleep through. It may take a long time though Ages mine slept through ranged from 8 months to 20 months

Yep. At about 21 months. I tried a lot of things, although not CC/CIO as I wasn’t personally comfortable with those myself, but tried things like gradual retreat, getting DP to do bedtime to break feeding to sleep habit, etc. None of it made much of a difference other than that he would go to sleep for DP more quickly than for me! (He was breastfed until almost three, which I think was relevant to our situation in that he was aware of what I, and other people, could offer...)

Anyway, he eventually started sleeping through reliably at about 21 months. Then we moved house two months later and it all started up again for nearly a year!

Personally, I don’t think anything I tried made a difference beyond making me feel better that I was trying something - he slept through when he was able and ready to do so.

DS started sleeping through at about 10 months. Nothing magical, we just night weaned him and when he realised mummy wasn't coming in to feed him (only daddy with water) he soon gave up.

DC2 slept through because I left her crying in her room whilst I read to DC1 at 7pm ish. I figured she wouldnt remember at such a young age and hate me for it whereas he was of course old enough to need his bedtime stories.
She started sleeping from 7pm after a couple of days or so and had the perfect routine.
DC1 had an eclectic routine but it didn't matter as much, it mattered more to me more once there I had more DC with different needs.

Yes! Dd didn’t sleep more than a 15 minute stretch until after her first birthday, then started 3-4 hours, then one night of 6 hour stretches, then slept through from just before 14 months by magic.

Yes, it was gradual but we didn't do anything. So much so that I can't really remember when it stopped!

I think at 1 DS was still getting up in the night for a bottle, which wasn't good but at least he went straight back to sleep. We began offering water and it tailed off.

Yes, mine did between 4 and 5 (years not months). Up until they did we put them in their own beds and when they woke up they came into our bed. No fuss, no drama and we still all got a decent sleep. I know it’s not for everyone but that worked for us. Having an enormous bed helped

No. She's 4.5. My newborn sleeps better.