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

My 18 month old slept through the night for the first time last night! Hoping it sticks, it's the first time since they were born I have had more than a couple of hours sleep.

My eldest started sleeping through without getting up at about 5 years old. My middle one was 2. My youngest who is almost 4 yrs sometimes sleeps through.

DS slept right through from about 4 weeks old. I often used to have to wake him for a feed at about 10 pm and in the morning. I'd wake up with a jolt in the morning in a panic because he wasn't stirring.
I did think maybe he had sustained brain damage during his difficult birth but he hasn't. He has a degree and loves sleeping even now.

One thing though in the 80s we were told to put them down on their fronts. That was the advice then and I've often wondered if that prevented all the digestive discomfort.

DS is 10; I wish he'd sleep through.
He does have SEN and does sleep through occasionally, but there's no rime or reason as to when he does.

Yes , they both did. They were both about 9-10 months old and did it after a bad period of waking a lot. With Dd the first time coincided with me wearing earplugs for ex's snoring, but he assured me she hadn't woken (he would hear her as well.. but I've never been sure). Then DS did the same thing (no ear plugs 😊). Both had recently moved to their own room.

If you fancy waiting out the torture, OP, come on over to my chaos thread in the sleep forums:

Waiting it out http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/sleep/3695769-waiting-it-out

There's a group of us not wanting to do CC/CIO and lacking the energy to do much else. Lots of happy stories of magical unicorn sleep arriving suddenly!

Yes, he was a terrible sleeper to begin with until we got him on Ranitidine for his silent reflux

He then started sleeping 6 hours at 8 weeks, 8 hours at 10 weeks and 10.5 hours at 14 weeks. He's just turned 1 and suddenly started sleeping 12 hours. I've never done CIO or anything, he just loves his sleep like his Dad

I don't expect to be as lucky with the next one!

Thanks everyone - you can tell by my spelling mistakes that I am absolutely knackered! I obviously know it won't last forever as he's not my first dc. He's still bf and although I'm ready to stop, he isn't and he needs the comfort through the night.

The fact I have 2 older dcs at school, 1 with Sen means I just give in and put him in bed with me and let him feed.

He's also just so restless on a night. He never ever keeps still so even though he's asleep on a night, he's constantly fidgeting when in bed with me so I'm wide awake.

Love him to bits and don't want to wish the time away but I can't wait for more sleep

@burritofan absolutely - I'll have a look through thank you! Funny you should comment as I had a burrito from Taco Bell for lunch to get me through the day

Yes but they were both 2 and a half years old when they did.
They are now brilliant at going and staying asleep.

I did Gina Ford “lite” so it was really early with mine (bottle fed).

6.5 weeks with the first and 9 weeks with the second.

Tbh (and I know I’ll be in the minority) I’m not sure I’d feel comfortable with any of my lo sleeping through aged under 18 months due to SIDS risk.

There’s a school of thought that repeated night wakings are the body’s natural defence against breathing pauses, apnea’s etc. The risk of SIDS isn’t fully decreased until after 18 months(ish) old.

PinkyU what would you do if your child naturally slept through before then? Wake them through the night?

Yes, a few weeks after his second birthday, something just clicked. I'd tried everything, including controlled crying. (CC worked in that he would fall asleep, but would wake up and be very upset an hour later, rinse and repeat, all night.) I honestly believe sleep is developmental and there's very little you can do to change it.

OP he really doesn't need the comfort, he's using you as a human dummy - that's fine if it works for you both, but it's obviously taking its toll on you. We did controlled crying at 19 months, and wish we'd done it lots earlier. It took 5 nights for DS to go from hourly waking to sleeping through. The change in his mood and behaviour was also dramatic, he was no longer chronically sleep-deprived so much happier (so were we!). Before doing that though we night-weaned, which meant 2 weeks of DH doing nights. It meant DS wasn't actually hungry at night when we did sleep training. It was tough for DH but he was glad to do his share after me having all the nights previously, he never complained despite having a very full-on responsible job.

My DS slept terribly for the first year, then started walking and started sleeping through almost straight away, reliably by 13-14 months.

DD has slept better in some ways but has taken longer to sleep through, around 16 months.

We didn't sleep train in any way, just kept to the routine of bath-story-milk and with Ewan the sheep playing his little tune.

In both cases it did feel like magic when it happened!

Yes but goes through phases of waking in the night and crying for a few weeks and then goes back to sleeping through for a few weeks etc. Even when she's sleeping her best 7-7 she wakes a few times a night and might yell for a min or two til she finds her dummy and goes back off again. But we've never done any kind of cc/sleep training type thing. She's 15 months. Last night she woke up practically every hour and needed a bit of comforting and cried every time, dunno what was wrong with her. The night before she did it a few times. Before that she had not had a bad night like these for a good month or so.

DS13 was an absolute nightmare trying to get him to give up the middle of night feed when a baby. I feel stressed just thinking about it again now.

DD10 by comparison was amazing. First slept through aged 7 weeks, on Christmas Day morning! Then went back to a middle of night feed for two more weeks, then slept through to 6.30am thereafter from 9 months.

DD was a large baby (8lb 11 at birth), but still .....

As caveat, they both would go to bed about 7.30pm, and I would wake them for a feed at 11pm. So by sleeping through, I meant from 11pm to 6.30am.

It happened when dh took over bedtime routine and kicked me out of the bedroom. My eldest was great but my youngest at nearly 3 wouldn't sleep on his own bed. Dh had enough and put him in his bed, laid on the floor next to his bed for a few nights. It hurt dh back but it was worth it. Right now all I need to say is go to bed and they go to bed. Of course son wasn't happy and tried to protest but not cry. He cried few nights later and dh just put him back on his bed and slept on the floor again.

Yes, but she was over 2 years old.

Yes, my breastfed son started at around 8 months just sleeping through about once every ten days or so. It gradually increased and by 10 or 11 months he was sleeping through most nights. Nearly 14 months old and still going strong, despite health visitors telling me it would never happen because I did (and still sometimes do) breastfeed to sleep!

Hope you start getting more sleep soon

We didn't do any sleep training of any kind just to add.

When she was 4 years old she started sleeping through, when she started primary school.

Pretty much. It more or less coincided with cutting out night milk and also going into a single bed rather than cot, but I dont think either of those things were really the reason. I think she just suddenly became able to do it.
She was about 20months and has slept through almost every night since.