At what age did your baby/ child regularly sleep through the night?

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I have a 33 month old and an 8 month old. I’m after a cross section of answers as I’m going crazy with exhaustion!!

DD is almost 3 and has never slept through regularly. We have had a handful of nights where she’s slept 12am-5am.

Is this normal or am I being unreasonable to expect her to sleep through the night?

DD slept through the night twice before she was 4. For the first two years she woke every 90 minutes or so… after that it increased to 3/4 hour blocks.

Ds was 3 months

Dd was 14 months

22-23 months ish for DD. We did do a sort of sleep training in the end, despite me being adamant I never would, because DH works away part of the week and I was pregnant so just couldn’t cope with our bedtime routine as it was. Not sure where we would be if we had left it up to her.

DD1 was about 3, DD2 is 18 months and I’m still waiting…

Mine was 5 the first time he slept all night,only because he started school!!

Dd1 was 12 months dd2 was 2 and a half

Ha! So my 2.5 yr old has NEVER slept thru and I don't recall my 8 year old sleeping thru until about 6, maybe. Even now she'll still get up through the night on occasion and come thru to us.

I think it's luck of the draw. I've never wanted to or attempted sleep training. I co-sleep with the 2.5 year old as I worked out that that was the way for me to get the most sleep from being chronically sleep deprived with my first.

DC1 10 weeks
DC2 around 3 months.

From about 19-20 months. But only by making sure she’s eaten enough dinner and evening snack to not wake up hungry at night time.

my dd was about 4 years old before she started sleeping through the night

Oldest was 3 months
Middle was 5 years
Youngest is 3 and not sleeping through yet. Will not sleep in her own bed either

DD - 4 weeks old 8pm-8am

DS- 2 years old

I didn't benefit from DD sleep pattern due to DSs! Oh well

Teenagers now and could sleep all day long if life allowed!

DS1 has mostly slept through since he was 1, with some regressions at around the 3 year mark.
DS2 slept through from 6 weeks - 1 year then didn’t sleep through again consistently until he was about 3-4.

About 6 weeks. Then had a regression around 12-13 months, can't remember how long that lasted. No more then 6 weeks I don't think, although it felt like forever at the time.

I realise how incredibly lucky we were and wasn't prepared to risk having another as I don't cope well with broken sleep! You have my sympathy, you must be exhausted and I don't think it's unreasonable for you to expect the worst at least to be sleeping through by now.

Fairly reliably from about 22 months, but absolutely appalling sleeper up until then. We tried to sleep train and it didn't work. ds is 3.5 now and will usually wake up once or twice a night, but goes back to sleep very easily so it doesn't really bother me.

DS was 5. He almost broke us but we did survive and now it feels like a distant memory.

6 weeks and 6 months, both of which later had regressions that were met with sleep training. It was 2 bad nights each and they then slept beautifully and they had parents that were well rested. I have no regrets.

DS1 10 weeks, DS2 18 months, DS3 3.5 years, DD1 10 months?, DD2 10 months?, DD3 3 years, DD4 6 months

DC1 & 2 - c. 9 weeks.
DC3 - around 7m.

One ND child, two NT.

As with all things, the 'sleeping through' aspect of childhood will be a mix of nature, nurture and sheer luck.

But that said, I also think that certain parenting choices will have a big impact.

So for example if you refuse to even consider any form of sleep training, ever, you're never going to know whether sleep training might have had a positive impact on a child's sleep, for example.

If you always feed/rock/cuddle a child to sleep, you're never going to know whether things might have been different if you had tried an alternative path to feeding/rocking/cuddling to sleep.

And so on.

There are many factors influencing how well a child sleeps but it is absolutely not and never will be just 'the luck of the draw'.

You will find as many answers as there are children. Try a sleep consultant?

14 months for both of mine, when they started walking.

First one was about 3, but then I put more effort into good sleep with the next two and they were more like 9-12 months.

DT’s occasionally from eight weeks and then we used a sleep consultant at five months. They then slept through apart odd nights when they were unwell.

My DS slept 8 hours a night between 7 and 9 weeks old.

Never replicated after that.

I have 3 DC, they slept a shortish night at 8 weeks eg. 10-5 ish. This gradually got longer and they slept 12 hours at 12 weeks and woke up about once or twice a year if they were ill or teething etc.
I was really lucky sleep wise.