To think you can’t have two good sleepers?

[Jadefeather7]

Expecting my second baby. First has been a brilliant sleeper. Have this sense of dread that the second will be a different story but also hoping there’s some chance I could get lucky again! Anyone had two good sleepers?

Yes, first slept thru at 10 weeks, second at 12 weeks.
Still brilliant sleepers - now 9 and 4. Never an issue with them - unless they’re ill,

I had two good sleepers. I also had one horrendous one too

YANBU to worry but it does happen - my cousin has 2 amazing sleepers and a friend had to wake both of hers until toddlerhood or they would sleep for 13/14 hours at night no problem!

I can only think of those 2 examples however. My DS is terrible so I'm hoping #2 will the the good one

My two were both good sleepers after the initial newborn bit where night was day etc.

Pay off was they were both terrible eaters.

🙋🏼‍♀️ I have two good sleepers! Currently pregnant with my third DC and worrying about getting a third one though ...

Yes both of mine are good sleepers - although I personally believe that's because I trained them so, which will be an unpopular opinion on MN!

Yes, of course you can. All 3 of my babies were good sleepers they all 'slept through' from about 5-6 weeks old and had naps during the day as well.

2 awful sleepers here!! Someone here clearly got my good one

Yes, I had 3. All slept through at just a few weeks old.p

3 out of 4 of mine were excellent sleepers. Hoping for luck this time around too as I’m older and tired myself! Good luck

My 3 all good sleepers.

Mine are both good sleepers!

I had two. The second was better than the first. Routine from about week 3 was put down, say goodnight then leave. Be optimistic!

Mine are good sleepers, both of them. Always went back down after a feed at night from day 1, no walking them around all night. We were very lucky.

6yo loves going to bed at 7pm and is instantly asleep. 9yo messes around a bit but is usually asleep by 8.30-9pm. Very rarely one will have a nightmare or be ill in the night but they hardly ever wake.

I'm aware that we are very lucky.

3 good ones

Mine were both brilliant sleepers from day dot. I was pumping for them both and hated wakening up during the night to pump whilst they slept on lol.

florean I'm in the same boat! 2 shocking sleepers so someone definitely got my share! Have sleep trained the eldest though and that helped massively.

I have two awful sleepers, so somebody must get two good ones?!

Fingers crossed you'll be ok - it's really not so bad if not, my eldest didn't sleep for longer than 2 hours at a stretch until he was well over 2 and you do get used to it and survive!

2 here and both great. 2 year old slept 13.5 hours last night. I had to wake him this morning.

Both mine were great sleepers.

I hadn’t found MN to criticise everything so I used routine, it never occurred me you didn’t put them down to sleep or picked them up for grizzling at bed time.

We all slept well!

DS1 was a brilliant sleeper. Slept through from around 12 weeks with only a few bad periods of regression.
DS2 was a devil child. Angelic in the day but would not sleep. Would sleep from 7/8-11pm and then he was done. Up every hour. We tried everything and eventually ended up co sleeping with him until he was around 2.5 just to survive. Now he's nearing 4 he's actually a good sleeper

Currently expecting DC3 and hoping karma will give us another baby like DS1

I had two good sleepers so it can happen!

Although I fear they'll both be a right handful when they hit the teenage years so I think I'll have a few years' sleep deprivation then...

No. I’ve had two bad sleepers. Christ I’m tired.

All 3 of mine have slept through (I mean 8pm-7am) by around 12 weeks! And they’re all exclusively breastfed. I was fully expecting number 3 to be a bad sleeper, but he was no problem either!! I know I’m lucky though...