to say that actually some babies do sleep through quite early

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It winds me up when people say that other mums are basically lying if they say their baby slept through from an early age.

You often see on here something like 'Don't believe them - people class sleeping through as 12 - 4' etc etc.

I know sometimes it's because someone is despairing and needs to know they're not doing something wrong. But some babies do sleep through early, is it wrong to give new mums hope that they might get a full night's sleep sometime soon?

I can categorically state that as a one off my DD slept from 9.30pm to 7am at 8 weeks old (I wrote it on my calendar!) - and it was a regular sleeping pattern by about a month after that. Anybody want to call me a liar or say that's not really sleeping through?

For the record - this isn't intended as a boast - I don't think I did anything 'right' for it to happen, we were just very lucky, and I fully expect a nightmare non-sleeper if we have another baby.

PS:

mr friend has twins, now 7, one slept through from 9 weeks and the other from 4 years, same everything and so different!

YANBU.

However, having had the world's scratchiest baby as my first, I really resented mums who made out that it was something that I was or wasn't doing right, while smugly sipping their cappuccino. I felt throughly vindicated though when their dc2s turned up, with completely different personalities to their dc1s, and they discovered that lack of sleep with a small baby sometimes is part of the territory no matter what you do or don't do.