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

[MummyPig24]

Ds began sleeping 7-5 around 12wks but didnt do 7-7 till about 13mths. This lasted about a year and then descended into the most hellish sleep period we have ever know. Fortunately resolved by age 3 and now reliable at just turned 5.

Dd slept through around 6mths when we dropped the dream feed. Wakes up between 2 and 8 times a night now at 2.9yrs, hoping she will grow out of it soon!

[Dontbesodramatic]

9yrs and still waiting

[Molehillmountain]

Ha! After a few nights sleeping through-dd2 was awake between 11 and 3 last night

[tethersend]

DD1 from about 4 months

DD2 from 12 weeks; until now, at 6 months. She has woken twice a night for the past two weeks

Feel lucky, but don't feel secure... Babies are cunts

[Pozzled]

DD1 was around 10 months.

DD2 is almost 18 months, and has just started sleeping about 7.30-6. I'm just keeping my fingers crossed that it continues!

[twittertotter]

DD1 8 weeks
DD1. 9 weeks

From 630/7pm to 7am for both with disrupted sleep only when poorly or teething.

Eldest is now nearly 4 and youngest 6 months

If I knew what I'd done to be so lucky then I'd be writing a book and making my fortune!

[twittertotter]

DD1 8 weeks
DD2 9 weeks

[CuriosityCola]

Ds - 14 months.

I think as many babies sleep all through the night as don't. Try and not to compare. It's such a holy grail that I think some people exaggerate. My friend's baby slept through the night from 2 months. Then I realised from various conversations that she was getting up four or five times a night to replace her dummy! This didn't count for some reason

[SamSmalaidh]

First slept through at 9 months (v. occasionally)
Sometimes from about 17 months
Mostly/often now sleeps 8.30pm-8am at 2 years!

What did I do to achieve this great sleep?
Bedtime routine from 8 weeks
Day time routine from 5-6 months
Got him self-settling from 7 months
No night feeds from 9 months
No dummy from 12 months

[prettybird]

Demand feeding - especially cluster feeding in the early evening - means many more feeds than that.

3 in the morning (roughly 7am, 10am and 12 depending on naps, 4 in the afternoon/early evening 2pm, 5.30, 6.30, 7.30, bed). The 10pm feed was the last to go (once we were happy with his weight gain) - used to have to wake him to Fred him.

[prettybird]

Firstime - ds only got bathed once a week (if that ). He was topped and tailed (with water unless I was out and about) obviously, every time he was changed.

We were fortunate that he was generally a very "clean" baby. Didn't have much hair and never got cradle cap.

[NotQuiteQuiet]

First slept through at 9 months old.

Second slept through at 6 years old.

[FuriousRox]

Dd at around 8 months but was then very hit and miss with patches of night waking. Now at two years she is more consistent - though saying that she is currently sleeping 13-14 hours at a stretch - cant be a long term trend!!

Ds is four weeks, waking three to four times, sometimes sleeping in basket, sometime in with me. Not expecting any miracles though looking forward to the fussy evenings improving.

[openerofjars]

First child, DS, woke at least twice a night until 18 months. Aargh.

Second child, DD, 2 weeks! That was a one off until 4 weeks, when she started doing her amazing sleeping trick.

I am blessed: if I'd had them the other way round I'd be in a proper state.

[IShallCallYouSquishy]

DD started going 7:30/8-5/5:30 at 7 weeks. She then went 7:30/8-7 at 9 weeks.
She now does 7/7:15-7/7:30 for past month. She's now 6 months old.

All these have been with last feed being a 10:30/11 dream feed. No sleep training involved and consistent bar a week of really bad teething, a few odd nights, and last night - but that's due a high temperature and sickness so I will let her off

I honestly think I am just very lucky and fully realise IF (and that's a very big if) I have another it could be the complete opposite. I'm also waiting for the day (night) she decides to change her mind and becomes a terrible sleeper

[prettybird]

Yes I was - did so until he was 13 months old.

Also went back to work FT when he was 4.5months old (all the maternity leave you got back then) and had to express to supply the childminder with EBM. Kept the 10pm "feed" as an express to keep the supply going.

[Meglet]

DS (now 6) was 3 months. He was and still is a brilliant little sleeper.

DD (now 4) was 5 months. These days she's a terror at bedtimes.

firsttime I left them in overnight nappies, unless they did a poo - which was very rare. They didn't get nappy rash.

[prettybird]

Would never have dreamt (no pun intended ) of waking a sleeping baby just to change them. Nappy stayed on overnight - changed first thing in the morning.

Used disposables - ds never got nappy rash.

[VisualiseAHorse]

6 months. He is only 7 months old now though!

You are very lucky, but beware, babies change all the time. When they're going through a growth spurt/teething/weaning/poorly/just being a baby, they can wake up a lot more!

[VisualiseAHorse]

Oh, and I never change a nappy overnight unless he's soaked or done a poo. Which has happened maybe 5 times in his whole life? He wears cloth and has never had nappy rash.

[inadreamworld]

DD slept through from 2 months old. This was 9pm to 8am, she would never go to sleep earlier and still doesn't. I know this is unusual and I don't think it was anything great I did as a first time Mum, it is just the type of baby she is, calm, chilled and dare I say.....a bit lazy. She is now 19 months and still a great sleeper but a very very late walker as she really can't be bothered even though nothing wrong with her physically (have started a thread on this topic). baby 2 due is a few weeks and I pray she is a good sleeper too....could I be as lucky 2nd time around?