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

We never did controlled crying because it’s awful.

Yep, but not till age 4 when going into a single bed. I think toddler sized bed was just to small!

Yes, but I think 12 months is quite early for most. My eldest started to sleep through sometime around 3.5. Younger one does sometimes but not most nights. He’s 19 months though so I wouldn’t really expect it until at least after 2.

I was actually going to start a thread to see if DS 18mo waking once every night- wanting milk- was normal. Pleased to see looking through these posts that it's not so abnormal and will change as/when he's ready.

Yes our Son started sleeping through at 16 months and added another 2 hours in the morning. He just did it one day and kept it up since. He is just over 2 now. Just went back to sleepless nights with 4 week old daughter. Hang in there op it’s tough x

Yep at 18months. I woke every 40min to 2hours from the day he was born. Now 1 wake up floor's me!! Amazing how quickly I got used to a full night's sleep again

My son slept 30 minutes at a time which was brutal from 0-5 months. From 5 months he started a 3/4 hours stint and from just over a year he started sleeping through.
My daughter slept through from the moment she was born.
Co sleep with both.

I don't really expect him to sleep through but if he could at least get to past 3am without waking,

He's sleep now, had a tiny breast feed and fell asleep with his dummy but in my arms. Hee will wake at around 8.30 (5-10 mins to settle) and then again around 10. Then he'll sleep until about 1am...then I'm awake with him for most of the night :-( he's not awake but he also can't settle without me

No, I had to stop night feeds both times.

DS honestly didn't sleep through consistently until he was 7 years old.

DD started sleeping 10pm- 6am at 8 weeks old and by 12 weeks she was sleeping 6pm- 6am. She then hit teething at 13 months for the past four months she has woken each night at least twice and sometimes it's every hour. I am working five days and my husband does 5 12 hour shifts a week so we are both exhausted!

Got better around 16 months
Reliably sleptthrough after the week of his 2nd birthday looking back no idea how I did it

Yep! In the October half term of reception!

Yes. I had night weaned but that was her dad going in there to cuddle her so no being left to cry. Then she got hand foot and mouth and randomly this made her sleep through forever more?!

Yes. We've had a few step changes with sleep (DD currently 17 months).

At 7 months we moved her to her own room. She went from waking to feed every two hours in our room to sleeping 11 hours straight in her room the first night. I appreciate this is a rare miracle! From that point she slept through maybe 4 out of 7 nights, and if she was up it was once or rarely twice for a quick feed (BF).

Her daytime behaviour and mood instantly improved with this as she was so much better rested.

At 9 or 10 months she had a nursing strike which we never resolved, and refused a bottle. We had to walk, sing, rock her to sleep (but at least DH could do his share!). Very hard getting her down, often over an hour of exhausted crying in our arms. But once down her overnight sleep was the same as before so it was ok.

Then a few months ago she suddenly started reaching out for the cot when we were pacing the room with her, so started putting her in the cot (screamed if we did this while she was awake before) and shushed, rubbed her back/tummy etc.

A few weeks later DH was doing that and she looked at him and said "bye-bye" (!) so he took the hint and sat in the chair while she went to sleep by herself. Since that point she's been reliably sleeping through, and we've only had to go to her a few times when she's been sick etc in the past couple of months.

Next step is to leave the room when she's awake.

Yes but she was 7

I've put a YouTube channel on the tv, a lullaby one and he's stayed asleep. I've been downstairs at least half an hour which is an improvement. No doubt he will cry soon.

Mine slept through at 3 months. I was going back to work, so needed them to sleep through fairly early. When they woke up in the night, I gave them water instead of milk. After 2 or 3 nights they stopped waking up and slept through. It had just been habit for them. No need for controlled crying. Last bottle at night was 10.30, then they slept through till 6am.

When they woke up in the night, I gave them water instead of milk

Yeah this worked for DC2. However DC3 just screams and screams and screams until he has milk. They’re all different 🤷🏻‍♀️

Yes around age 3. Sleep improved steadily from about 2.5, after I got him a single bed rather than cot bed, he got all his teeth through, and I night weaned

so needed them to sleep through fairly early.
Oh is that how it works.

Oh is that how it works

That’s what I was thinking! When my 20 month old DD1 woke up 2/3 times a night screaming at the same time as my baby woke up every 40 mins throughout the night (until she was 6 months) and I was suffering from severe exhaustion and PTSD after developing sepsis I really really needed at least one of them to sleep through.
They still didn’t though.

Well it worked for me. I was panicking wondering how I was going to manage keeping awake at work, and someone mentioned to me about giving them water in the night and said "they dont wake for water"... and she was right, it worked.

Yes! But, the bad news was that it did take time. He was about 22 months before he'd reliably sleep through. Now at almost 3 he does the fabled 7.30 - 7.30.

There is a saying, it either takes time or tears. I wasn't willing to go down the tears route so we had to wait it out.

Things we did do:

• night wean from breastfeeding
• gentle transitioning from falling asleep on us to falling asleep lying beside us, then finally in the cot (us still in the room)

I still have to stay in the room while he falls asleep but am starting the gentle transition to leaving the room now

Hang in there!

Pretty much.

DD1 slept through at around 9 months occasionally and then reliably from 14 months.
DD2 slept through from starting reception at school. She would come into our bed around midnight until then. Her sleep was perfectly manageable from around 18 months though- no night feeds etc. However we did need to sit in with her to fall asleep until she was nearly 4.
DD3 slept through from 22 months.

One of mine refused the water and just screamed and screamed and screamed until they got milk. The other accepted water but carried on waking for water for a further 4 months until she started sleeping through at 15 months.