What age did your baby sleep through?

[Starrsmummy]

Hi all, I'm new on here so it's nice to meet you :).

Just after some info on when your baby slept right through the night? I'm talking 7pm-7am. I have a 10 week old girl who has always been really good at night night and is currently going down at 7ish, wakes at around 2 for 5 ounces and then goes back down until 7. Like I say, it is good and I do feel lucky but I have friends with babies just slightly older who claim their baby went right through from around 8 weeks.

I'm also interested to know if you did anything different to achieve the all nighter or did it just happen?

Thank you! Xxx

[teacher123]

DS is 6 1/2 months and has slept 6-6 three times... However if he wakes for a feed he tends to then sleep on till 7, so I'd rather feed him once at midnight and then get an extra hour in bed!

[VolumeOfACone]

4 and three quarters ish? Years not months. Though when she was very little I had to wake her to feed her.

[SamraLee]

My daughter started sleeping with only one wake up at 5AM from about 7ish weeks, until she was 11 weeks old and started teething. She is 19 weeks old and on the good days she wakes up 3 times a night, but on the bad days....

She is a regular napper during the day though, but she is always with me. She sleeps in my arms during the day and at night. We are going to get a cot and see is she will sleep in that and maybe she might sleep better.

[ElphabaTheGreen]

'Sleeping...through...'

You mean from 7pm until midnight or so? Oh, yes 6mo DS has done that once or twice.

[RubyrooUK]

Well, 2.3 year old DS had never slept 7-7.

He will now sleep 8:30/9-6:30 but this is usually with three wakings or so. He has slept from 9-6 around four times in the last 6 months without waking.

DH and I honestly woke up those four times in a cold sweat to find we were in the same bed together with no child and thought something terrible had happened because we couldn't understand it.

[RubyrooUK]

has never...sorry, rubbish typing...

[bruffin]

Both DC 12 weeks, We didnt do anything they just decided not to wake up for a feed in the night. This was going from about 10pm to 7am.

[peanutMD]

3 years was the first time and 4 years consistently.

Although he has never actually gone 12 hours tbh more like 7.30 to 5.30 and he's 6.

[beela]

Still waiting for this to happen with any regularity or consistency (2.1).

(that'a a yawn, btw)

[tigersmummy]

DS 8 weeks
DD who is 6 weeks has been sleeping 11-6/7 for a couple of weeks
It depends totally on the child; the sane bath/milk/story/bed routine can be used on different children and have different outcomes. With DS other mums were a bit snidey about it which was unnecessary (I still like to think it my mums influence as she died when he was 7 weeks ) and with DD we whisper the news as don't want to jinx it

[DewDr0p]

Ds1 - 9 weeks
Ds2 - 7 months
Ds3 - about 3 years? So sleep deprived by that point that I forget exactly!

That's not a great trend really is it?

[LittleOne76]

DS was about 10months! If there is something I have learnt over the past year and a bit, it's that nothing stays the same for long and they are constantly changing. We'd have one or two nights of only one or two awakenings and I thought we cracked it and then we'd have a week or so of up 3-4 times ....... DS was about 10months when he started to consistently sleep through.

Just enjoy the periods of great sleep and rest when you can. I'm making the most of the good sleep now and figure as he nears 15months that we're due for a change soon. I have my fingers crossed though that we continues to sleep through!

[Iwillorderthefood]

DD1 3 months
DD2 - 2.5 years (of torture)

[elfycat]

DD1 9 months
DD2 24 months and counting (one wake up, quickly settles with milk, usually 2 am but can be anywhere from 10pm-6am. She's down for 14 hours so I don't blame her for needing something in that time)

[tigerdriverII]

9 to 9 - three weeks

Now Any chance I get to get him to bed.

DS 10.

[HSMM]

13 yr old DD still doesn't sleep through the night, but I don't have to get up any more.

[Kiwiinkits]

DD1 - around 12 weeks
DD2 - 7 months

Both were BF, with a top up bottle. Both followed Baby Whisperer routines from day 1. Personality is everything!

By the way, it's not unusual for them to "sleep through" for a period and then begin waking at night again from hunger or teething. Sometimes they get cold or too hot at night too, which makes them wake.

[MoelFammau]

DD is 18mo and has slept through twice. Though on both counts that meant from midnight-7am. To be fair, she's just been diagnosed lactose intolerant and night time for her was a screaming agony. She's now starting to get better...

[BlueChampagne]

DS1 9 months
DS2 30 months (DH and I still have a coffee habit)

[sheeplikessleep]

DS1 11 weeks. We were incredibly lucky.

DS2 at 2.10, he has never done a 12 hour stretch. He sleeps 7pm - 5am, which I think is pretty darn close to sleeping through. Still I would like to have a post 5am wake up soon.

[HearMyRoar]

I would just smile and nod at any smug friends. my dd also slept through at 8 weeks and i was unbearably smug about it, she then hit 3.5 months and woke up every 45 mins every night for weeks, now at 8 months she does 4 hour stretches on a good night. I dream of having 5 hours of sleep all in one go....is that so much to ask...?

[Molehillmountain]

Dd2 was six weeks old and did so until four months. I tell you this because she is now sixteen months and has just done her first four nights without waking up since then. So if any one is ever a teeny bit smug sounding-remember my dd

[Starrsmummy]

Wow, the response to this has been amazing. Thank you all for the info, everyone's stories are so varied, I need to learn not to listen to friends and get disheartened when dd isn't doing the same . They will get their comeuppance for being smug when teething sets in. Mwahah xx

[Livened]

8weeks - and it's all him we reckon! People still love to tell us "just wait until he's teething" (he has 8 teeth) etc, so now he's still such a good sleeper, peop,e have resorted to telling me he's going to be an awful teenager!