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?

That's what I'm saying. The routine can't do it all by itself.

This is pretty much what my DC did. 8 hours by 8 weeks pretty consistently 12 hours by 12 weeks. And it was a proper 12 hours - no feeding/crying etc.
At 33 months, just bloody sleep train! I wonder if thinking of them in months rather than as an almost 3yo makes you feel like they are still a baby?

Just because it doesn't work well for some babies? I feel it's just like most things when it comes to babies/toddlers etc they are different and will respond to things differently.

I don't think mine would've slept through as early as they did without following GF/Baby Whisperer.

Edit: Sorry, that's for @Mulledjuice

When they started school.

Both 10 weeks, with a dream feed around 11pm.

Routine in place from 6 weeks, no crying and not GF, just balancing feeds and naps. I am aghast at some of the replies on this thread! I thought by 1 most would do a full night!

4 years but both since diagnosed with ADHD and this was one thing they said was a good indicator. I should have known!

6, 3.5 and currently 2.5 and never!

Sleep training doesn’t have to involve letting them cry. One of the reasons we used a sleep consultant was that we wanted a good sleep routine for DT’s but we didn’t want to leave them crying.
The biggest thing which helped us was moving DT’s into their own bedrooms as we were all disturbing each other.

Around 9 months

Nope. In my sample of 2, they did what the book said they would do when I implemented the recommendations. I was very strict on wake windows etc which was hard on me and left me with little flexibility but the pay off was worth it. Very few people would think controlled crying was acceptable under 6 months, if at all, so I think you're wrong there.

I'm pretty firmly of the belief that you can't be all 'go with the flow' and expect decent night time sleep.

Wow did you do anything differently for #2?

This thread is slightly terrifying as I’m about to ttc my second and genuinely didn’t realise it could Be so bad.

For my first from about 13 months (with just one wake up from about 7 months).

We did sleep training and I have zero regrets. I cannot function with no sleep

3 DC - all fully breastfed until 1 year. Slept in basket by my bed until 6-7 months, then went into own room.

DC 1 did 10pm - 6am from 6 weeks. He had the occasional night wake up, but he just gradually extended that night time. No training/CC etc. He fed a LOT during the day, was a big baby and pretty much only ever woke for food so once he dropped a feed he slept. He also dropped day time naps early.

DC2 woke up at 1 am 2 am 4 am 5 am 7 am every single bloody night until she was 7 months. Wanted to feed, but only had a couple of slurps and then slept again. Once I started her on solids and she was eating well, I started to offer her water instead of milk at 2 am 3 am 5 am etc. Within 3 nights she stopped waking unless she was hungry and so slept 10 pm - 7 am by about 8-9 months.

DC 3 - again only woke for milk, so woke to feed a couple of times a night for a long time. Then dropped the night feeds. So at about 7-8 months she was pretty much doing 10pm - 6 am.
But she would also sometimes just wake up and need resettling, and she did that a couple of times a week until she was 6 or 7 years old.

DD1 - 6 months.
DD2 - 5 years.

I can count on one hand the number of times DD1 had me up in the night. DD2 would have been an only child if she had been my first, I've never known exhaustion like it. It does pass though, she's 14 now and I have the opposite problem!

Dc1 10 weeks
dc2 6 months
dc3 6 weeks
dc4 4 years

DS 1 started to sleep at least 7h from age 4and a half. Still have some rough nights (5 and a half) but nowhere near as many. DS2 did the same around 13months or so and vast majority of the time (almost 3 now) sleeps to about 5am and crawls in with us, sometimes wakes for a drink of water around 11pm too.

Growth spurts or being ill they both will need a parent all night. It is what it is. Seeing how well the younger slept made me realize it’s just how we’re born.

10 weeks 🫣 sorry

I think my first slept through with a dry nappy and no night feeds from 8months.

My 1 year old is yet to sleep more than 3 hours at a time. Recently he's inconsolable around the 4am mark. I'm struggling tbh and i don't know what to do other than wait until the night he does sleep through.

Both mine started at 8 weeks. Formula fed.

Both 5, at around the time they started real learning at school.

Both mine were 8 weeks old.

I defined through the night as at least six hours with no wake ups.

about 8 months but with periods of not doing so again while teething, nightmares, etc.

DS is 5 and wakes up every single night still. After taking a solid 2 hours to put to sleep in the first place.

And DD (9) will on average get in my bed once a week in the middle of the night.

So in my experience not for a long ass time..

Around 7 years old she learned to consistently put herself back to sleep. I know she still woke up in the night. She still does.

she has ASD. The sleep deprivation was rough on DH and myself. It was especially rough on me because I also have ASD and struggle to fall asleep once woken.

8 months.