When did your dc(s) sleep for 12 hours at night?

[MabelMay]

Okay, I know every baby is different - and I know I shouldn't compare - but I like comparing! And I'm just trying to get a sense of the kind of 'average' age that people's babies start to sleep the whole night through.

I know some people have miracle babies who sleep for 12 hours very early on (like my ds1 who did so at 9 weeks [i was too much of mum novice to appreciate how extremely lucky i was at the time]. Sadly my ds2 is absolutely nothing like this! I also know that there are 2 to 3 year olds out there who have never slept a full night.

But when would one realistically, reasonably expect a little baby to be able to sleep through the night for 12 hours?
When did yours?

3.5 yrs (DS) and still waiting for DD (now 3).

not yet - he's 2 - does 11 hours if we are lucky but more commonly 10 - 10 1/2. Hoping all will change when he gives up the lunchtime nap

my ds slept through the night from 8mths to 20 mths and has rarely slept through since he is now 3

ds since about 6 mths. I am very lucky!

My ds did 12-13 hours since 10 weeks old. First time mummy here didn't realise how lucky she was but 9 months on and separation anxiety is a total pig. I'm luck if my ds goes 10 hours now but mostly about 6 hours before he need to be cuddled back to sleep and won't be put down

I'm hoping once this grotty stage passes then he will hopefully go back to being a great sleeper again but I'm not holding my breath!

Four weeks. I am jammy.

I kept waking up in the middle of the night in a panic about SIDS and only chilled out about it at about two and a half months.

Seriously - Ninedragons!!! I'm going to have to use a lot of Radiant Touch when we meet!
My DD will sleep through about once a week (shes 13 months) and the rest of the time wakes up once. the lucky thing is she doesn't normally wake until 8 am. I can get a lie in most days, so I never complain!

i am still waiting
DD1 is 4.3
DD2 is 2.7

and at ninedragons!
That's unbelieveable. What on earth do you give him/her? Is he/she a very big baby? Does he/she not sleep at all in the day?

I don't think she's that big (about 7kg at four months), just incredibly, unbelievably lazy. She even goes straight back to sleep after the 6-7am feed - my husband rang from work yesterday and woke us both up at 12.45 .

She's been mix-fed since birth and during the day has put herself on a two-hour up, one-hour sleep routine. Sometimes I give her a dream feed at about 10.30 if she hasn't eaten since before 6pm.

She wasn't ever terribly active in the womb so I think it's just innate. My MIL says my husband was a very lazy baby too. When she's a teenager who won't get out of bed until 3pm I'll have to cut her some slack for the easy time she gave me as a baby.

ninedragons, out of curiosity, is your dh still 'lazy', or inactive, or need a lot of sleep?

Sleep?!? What's that? [eyes glaze over, recalls distant memory] Oh yes, something I used to have before my son was born.

As for him sleeping 12 hours a night - that sounds like something out of a science fiction film - sounds great, but highly improbable.

He works too hard at the moment to get the sleep he would like, but on the weekends or on holiday will happily sleep for 11 hours at a stretch. I don't really know how much of that is catching up from 13-hour days at the office and how much is natural inclination. I'm definitely better at getting up in the mornings than he is, even if we've gone to bed at the same time. Poor bugger, he's always knackered

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Interesting ninedragons. Thanks for replying.

I was wondering how much of sleep (the number of hours, how easily, lightly or deeply) is hardwired from birth and follows through to adulthood. ds and dd are horrific sleepers.

I used to routinely work 13+ hour days, sometimes overnight - not any more thank goodness. But in an office-based environment that was sometimes stressful in terms of deadlines, but it was not hard manual stuff. I don't think I ever needed 11 hours to catch up. And would feel fine after a day or so, rather than permanently knackered.

Even now, ds wakes me 3-4 x a night, sometimes taking hours to settle. But I wake at 6 am per normal, do the school run and put in a functional work day.

I do think that if you are the sort to need more sleep, it can be difficult. Margaret Thatcher was rumoured to only need 5 hours sleep a night - not that anyone would want to be her!

My guess would be that it's hereditary. MIL said that her second baby much less sleepy from birth, and SIL still is today. MIL says that my DD is eerily similar to DH, which suggests some level of inheritance to me.

I wonder if chronic sleep deprivation made Margaret Thatcher the witch that she was?

DS stopped needing a feed between 7 pm and 7 am, at about 7 months, once proper solids were established.

He's 18 months now and normally goes about 11 hours at night - 7.30pm - 6.30am

DD is 21 months and never slept a 12 hour stretch. These days we might get 9 hours but she never seems to need more sleep than that.

I am also the kind of person to sleep badly and not need that much sleep. Before DD was born I used to survive on about 6 hours a night. These days I need much more but don't get it.

My dd1 was like Ninedragons, slept like this from 4 weeks. And at 8 she's still a very chilled out/relaxed/laid back type. Not lazy but very calm. And she's chronically bad at getting ready for school in the mornings. She makes us late day after day.

My Ds started to sleep for 12 hours without waking when he was about 12 weeks, he's now 2.7 and still does. He also has a 2 hour nap in the day.
My DD slept 12 hours straight from been 9 weeks, she also has lots of naps in the day, she is now 4 months.
We are incrediably lucky to have the most sleepy children, I dread the day when we have DC3 (not for a while!) and realise how hard it must be to have a child that doesn#t sleep so well.
We did set a bedtime routine for both of them from a very young age, and stuck to it.

Neither of them have needed a classic 12 hours. DD is 6 and DS is 2. My DH is one of these who can survive on 5 hours sleep so I guess they get it from him.

2.5 when she dropped her nap. Somewhat mixed blessing...