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Did your kids start sleeping through? We are only three weeks in but im already dreaming of the day when dd will stop feeding every few hours, then spend the same time again fussing before going back to sleep! She is formula fed so hoping as she gets bigger she will have bigger feeds and sleep for longer periods. How old were yours when they started doing this?

Also what age were they when you introduced a bedtime routine? We are still very much in the newborn haze but I'm craving some routine and structure already.

My first DC was always a good sleeper and by 10 months, a solid 8 hours minimum. My 2nd is an adult but still can’t sleep properly.

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They actually learnt the concept of ‘quiet time’ from a young age. The hardest bit was training ourselves to sleep again!

About 10-12 weeks.

About a year old for DS1, 4 years for DS2.

My eldest at 11 months, til that point she'd woken twice a night. We introduced a bed time routine at 4 months.

My youngest, not yet at 9 weeks 😂

Well mine’s almost 5 and 99% of the time will end up in my bed. In fact if I ever wake up in the morning and she’s not there I have a slight panic that she might have died in the night!

Mine was a baby who would only sleep on or next to me from day 1. After a few days of trying to get her to sleep in a crib I gave in to cosleeping and found she and I both had good sleep as long as we were in the same bed. When she got to about 10 months I found I could lift her from my bed once asleep and put her in her cot which meant I could go downstairs for a few hours in the evenings. But she would always wake up in the night and I would take her back to my bed (her cot was in my room).

She started going to sleep in her own bed at about 3 but would usually wake up twice. Once about 10pm when I would lie her back down and she would go back to sleep and once between midnight and 4am when I would bring her in with me. From about age 4 she’s typically only woken once, after I’ve gone to bed, and been allowed to come into my bed herself. She generally goes straight to sleep once she’s in there. Depending on how she gets in she sometimes doesn’t even wake me up getting in!

I don’t function well on little sleep so decided early on to do whatever was necessary for me to get the most sleep so if that meant her being in my bed that was fine with me!

DD1 - we introduced a bedtime routine at 6 weeks and she started sleeping through a 9 weeks (Christmas morning and we joked that it was her present to us).

DD2 - introduced a bedtime routine at 3 months and she slept through from 6 months when we moved her into her own room - literally from night 1. Prior to that she hardly slept at all. She was the most challenging of my children re sleep and broke me.

DD3 - introduced a bedtime routine at 6 months. From about 2 months she would fall asleep at 6pm and sleep through until 3am but then sleep in my arms until 5/6am. That was fun! She broke the habit at about 7 months I think and her sleep shifted to waking at 5am. She's 3.5 now and has only just shifted it again, now waking at 6.30am.

They're all different though. Sleep deprivation is a form of torture and it is HARD. You just have to do what you need to do to survive it.

Baby 1 10 months.
baby 2 7 months
baby 3 15 months and still not doing it.

same mum and dad. All breastfed. Same cot. Same nursery room! Same routine. Different babies!

Both about 12 weeks. They remained good sleepers. I realise I was very lucky!

Wondering when they would sleep through actually made it harder to cope for me because when each "target" I hoped for was missed I was disappointed. DS1 was 14 months before he slept through and that was a one off. DS2 was probably 8 years old.

Depends what you call sleeping through. Probably the odd night he slept till 5am when he was a toddler but it was rare. He had me up every bloody night till he started school at 4.5 and from that point onwards things just got better and better.

He's 14 now and I can't get him out of his pit

10 weeks exactly. Goes to bed about 6pm, dream feed about 9:30pm, wakes about 8/8:30am. He's a sleep machine!

We got 7-7 when our twins were 7 months. At 2 they would sleep until 8 and now at 9 they will happily sleep until 9:30. Hang in there.

DS1 was about 6 years.
DS2 was about 8months, but then potty training happened and he was up once a night for about a year to go to the bathroom, and wouldn't go alone.

Youngest ~5 oldest ~ 9 😯 (9yo sleepwalker and night terrors). But there's a big difference between just 1 waking and the all the time tiredness of the first 4m. We all naturally have a cadence in the night anyway. I found that after about 8w I had adapted to the same sleep rhythm as the kids. I was able to wake and fall right back to sleep. They also get LOADs faster at feeding after a few weeks. So after 8w starting to get better (quick enough feeds you don't even need to wake up properly) and from ~4m when it dropped to 1-2 wakings it didn't leave me as wiped out.

DD is 18 months and had her first through the night at about 4 months.

Inconsistent since then. Sometimes she will or sometimes she will pull an all nighter like last night.

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DD1 started sleeping about 10pm to 5am, at 7 or 8 months old. . (Started sleeping 6 hours, like midnight to 6am by 5-6 months.) DD2 (a year and a half younger,) slept 8-9 hours by 5 months. They were both always awake by 6-6.30am though, right up to about 4 years old.

When they were 4 and a half, and 3, they'd come downstairs at 7am ish, and put the TV on and get themselves a bit of cereal and a drink of orange juice. Then they'd wake us at about 8am.

Oh, I guess they started sleeping from like 8.30pm to about 7am (like a long sleep straight through without disturbing us) by 5 or 6 y.o.

I have 8 and they’ve all slept through from about 4 months,inthink they started sleeping 10-5 quite early, about 6 weeks? Some were bottle fed from a couple of weeks and some were ebf so it didn’t make a difference for us.

I think I have been really lucky though, from what I read on here some people don’t get a full nights sleep for years, I do t know how they manage.

DC1 was about 7 months. DC2 was about 3 years.

Think we started a bedtime routine around 3 months. Flexible of course.

Ds first slept through 7-7pm at five months old, but wasn't reliable and would sometimes wake for a night feed or an early morning feed. He regressed completely just before his first birthday, turned out to be ill. Once that was sorted (by 13 months) we've pretty much never had a bad night with him. Although we have had periods of very early starts.

Sleeping through came and went for us. So it was up and down, not a big milestone.

DD1 was not long after she turned 2. DD2 is nearly 3 and did so for a couple of weeks last year.

My DD never woke at night much, she was always en excellent sleeper, my DS is almost 6 and still likes to wake at night.