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

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Dellspoem · 18/04/2025 18:47

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?

OP posts:
DottyV · 18/04/2025 19:27

Ds- 10 weeks
Dd1- 3 months
Dd2- 3.5 years!

PickledElectricity · 18/04/2025 19:27

I think technically 12-5 counts as "sleeping through" although I appreciate that it doesn't feel that way.

Mine started sleeping 12-5 from 11 months old when he started walking. We've had stops and starts since then and he's now 2. He will sleep 8/9pm-7/8am pretty reliably unless he's ill or teething, which feels like it happens a lot.

MichelleCancelled · 18/04/2025 19:28

Sleep trained at 7 months for both of them.

Maray1967 · 18/04/2025 19:28

DS1 - could do 8 hours at 8 weeks. Mostly always a good sleeper.

DS2 - not until about 5 months, but then was still a bad sleeper at 3/4, regularly coming in to us in the middle of the night. Still did it occasionally at 6/7 - then stopped.

BethDuttonYeHaw · 18/04/2025 19:28

Mine were both 6 weeks.

my nieces and nephews ranged from 6 months to 4 years.

TheFormidableMrsC · 18/04/2025 19:28

4 months and second baby 3 years.

Sirzy · 18/04/2025 19:29

Mine is 15 (years!) and still waiting!

joys of autism

pinklimefish · 18/04/2025 19:30

OP just clarifying your post, your 3 year old doesn’t fall asleep until 12?

BernardButlersBra · 18/04/2025 19:30

5 months for them both -they are twins.

Andnowshesatoddler · 18/04/2025 19:33

I was blessed with sleep.
My DD slept through from 6 weeks and only ever did one wake up a night. First few days we woke her to feed her every four hours the mid wife stopped that one 😆
I was not blessed with naps though she was never that baby snoozing soundly in her pushchair sadly.

JackJarvisEsq · 18/04/2025 19:34

6 weeks. We thought it was a fluke due to being on holiday but it happened every night since

she'd happily still snooze for 12 hours if we let her

edit to add she was a terrible napper

user2848502016 · 18/04/2025 19:34

Eldest DD 12 months, youngest at least 2.5! We ended up cosleeping with her most of the time to save everyone’s sanity

Jeds55 · 18/04/2025 19:35

My youngest dd didn't sleep through until just after she turned 3. Then w had a couple of months of a solid 10 hour sleep then she reverted to at least 1, mostly 2, wakes per night and that's where we are now at 3.5.
I go to sleep after my eldest is asleep around 8:45 as its the only way that I can survive. Disrupted sleep is awful, you hsve my sympathies

Weddingbutterfly · 18/04/2025 19:35

lovemycbf · 18/04/2025 18:50

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

Same only slept through once before this , first day at school he slept, didn’t make sense but I was so thankful

Ladamesansmerci · 18/04/2025 19:37

Dellspoem · 18/04/2025 18:47

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?

Mine slept through from 10 weeks until she was about 6 months. Then sleep went to shit for maybe 2 months, and she was awake every 90 mins and it was like having a newborn again. Then she dropped to once a night, then the last couple of weeks she's slept through, but now she has a cold so is waking all the time 🫠 So at 10mo my answer is maybe it will happen soon, maybe it won't, and who knows whether it will last anyway!

NominatedNameOfTheDay · 18/04/2025 19:38

6 months after sleep training. I know it’s controversial but I would do it again.

He’s 17 months now and having a bit of a regression (takes longer to coax to sleep, cries if he thinks you’re leaving) but still generally sleeps through once he’s nodded off.

123456abcdef · 18/04/2025 19:38

Dc1 6.5 YEARS!
dc2 around 4 months but dc1 was only 2.5 so I was still up anyway.

Mulledjuice · 18/04/2025 19:39

Honestly I think people who say they followed the GF (or whatever) "routine"and that resulted in their baby sleeping through the night before, say, 18 months (at least) are either omitting to say they also did controlled crying/ some form of sleep training, or massively overestimating how much "routine" can do by itself.

You can be incredibly consistent in schedule and still have a baby that doesn't "sleep through" more than the medical definition of 5 hours/night

OopsyDaisie · 18/04/2025 19:41

Evey child is different. My first at 6 weeks slept from 7pm to 5am with only a feed at 12am. I thought "how easy is this!"
My second though..... totally different story! From 3 months he started waking quite a few times, by the time he was 6 months or so he was waking every 1:30 to 2hours! It was hell on Earth (I was back to work at that point, although WFH as it was Covid time, but I was definitely a Mumbie).
Hang in there!
ETA: When he was 9 months I couldn't take it anymore and did controlled crying (which i thought I would NEVER do). It worked and he was only waking up once for milk, then bt 1yo he was not waking up even once!

Starlight40 · 18/04/2025 19:42

1st child 11 weeks, 2nd child 7 years old and 3rd child 8 weeks.x

OopsyDaisie · 18/04/2025 19:46

JackJarvisEsq · 18/04/2025 19:34

6 weeks. We thought it was a fluke due to being on holiday but it happened every night since

she'd happily still snooze for 12 hours if we let her

edit to add she was a terrible napper

Edited

Strange! My first one who slept full nights was also a terrible napper! Second was a great napper but horrible night sleeper (and I realised how good I had it with the terrible naps!!!!)

neverbeenskiing · 18/04/2025 19:47

DD about a year old
DS was was over 4 years old

FedupofArsenalgame · 18/04/2025 19:48

Dellspoem · 18/04/2025 18:47

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?

3.5 years , 8 weeks and 4 months.The 2 that slept earlier were both breasfed

Peony1897 · 18/04/2025 19:49

Both my kids slept through (7 to 7, give or take an hour) by 12 months.

SouthLondonMum22 · 18/04/2025 19:49

Mulledjuice · 18/04/2025 19:39

Honestly I think people who say they followed the GF (or whatever) "routine"and that resulted in their baby sleeping through the night before, say, 18 months (at least) are either omitting to say they also did controlled crying/ some form of sleep training, or massively overestimating how much "routine" can do by itself.

You can be incredibly consistent in schedule and still have a baby that doesn't "sleep through" more than the medical definition of 5 hours/night

No controlled crying here. GF/Baby Whisperer combo just worked incredibly well every time for us.

Doesn't mean it will work well for every baby though, of course it won't.