What would you say is 'sleeping through the night?'

[Newmummee]

Eg. From what times? How many hours?

Right now I'd settle for sleeping at night!

Right now I'd settle for sleeping at night!

I've got low expectations (2 and half years of interrupted sleep)

So my attitude is, if I don't get woken, and she sleeps to a vaguely normal time (any time after 6 usually), I'll call it sleeping through.

So, essentially 11 til 6, so 7 hours sleep.

We've had that less than 10 times in 2 years although the little madam happily did it for 3 weeks from 9-12 weeks old, and promptly stopped again

I've always thought a good 10 hours and means no waking/feeding/coming in our bed at 5am and back to sleep etc. So if they went to bed at 8pm and woke at 6am...........

Any feeds/evening wake ups I don't consider sleeping through.

vvviola - DS2 is nearly 4 and still doesn't sleep all night, you have my sympathy!!

Personally for me it was 8-6. However it didn't happen in the first year for my boys. I subsequently realised that many people when refering to 'sleeping through the night' they meant 11 or 12-6.

The medical definition is five hours.

From when I go to bed to about 6. So usually 10-6.

Hardly ever happens. I usually have to get out of bed once a night at least for both the DC - I get my sleep in two hour blocks most of the time!

Every once in awhile, one will stir and wake me up but go back to sleep while I just lie awake and listen and wait. I can never decide if that's a good or bad night.

DH's friend has a 6mo. A little while ago, he proudly informed DH baby was sleeping through.

"Except for feeds of course."

Right - so waking up every two hours

I'd say from 11pm to 6am would be sleeping through

Oh the holy grail...
Sleeping through in my book is babys bedtime untill they get up, so 8-8, 7-7, 8-6 or whatever. It's about their sleeping I think and not ours

I class it as 8-6 or bedtime until a time you call morning, without waking up.
Ds sleeps bedtime till 5/6 has milk, back in his cot, then wakes up at 7/8.
However he must be having a growth spurt been waking up at 2/3am recently and needing fed, this is not sleeping thru the night.

I would say atleast 8hrs with no interruptions.

I was told 5 hours is considering sleeping through as baby doesn't wake for a scheduled feed. Definitely not enough sleep though!

My ds did 10.30pm to 6am at around 9 wks and hv said he's sleeping through then. He now at 5 months does 8pm to 7.30/8.00am which I would say is a much nicer sleeping through - but I generally think it's when they skip/drop their night feed!

The actual definition is 5 hours
My definition though, it is bed time til reasonable morning, so 7 til at least 6, with no wakes or feeds. With that definition though, my expectations of a decent nights sleep were often disappointed We have only just achieved sleeping through at 18 months and we are often up nearer 5 than 6.

Medically they say 5 hours.

My dd (11 weeks) goes from 8pm till 6am, with a dream feed at about 11pm. She then after a feed at 6am goes back to sleep till about 8.30/9am. I'm pretty lucky I would say (I know it can all change yet!! )

11 to 6 or 7 for me.

I dream of it.....

7pm until 6am i.e. from when they go to bed until they get up. any night wakings are night wakings in my book and therefore not sleeping through. not many people agree with me though. i had a non-sleeper for roughly the first 3 years, with rarely more than two uninterrupted hours, i am VERY precious about my sleep!
for those still struggling - it will happen, and it will be as wonderful as you imagine.

5 hours? Really? . Oh my poor little DD2. I've been saying moaning about her not sleeping through since she was born. I think she's done 5 hour stretches for months. Sorry DD2!!

Personally, I would call sleeping through 10-12 hours. We had 7-7 last night for the first time ever .

Medically I think they say midnight to 5am.

That means naff all to me though. Personally I would count sleeping through as sleeping from sometime before 11 (when I go to bed) until at least 6am. Ideally structured so there is an 8 hour stretch for me to sleep.

If I was waiting for 12 hours I would still be waiting for DD1 at 4.5 (she does about 11 to 11.5).

To me it means that baby goes to sleep in evening and doesn't wake till morning - never happened yet!
But she can sleep long stretches of 5-6 hours so if anyone asks I say that she sleeps well.
We have a 'dream' feed when we go to bed, so I wouldn't say she's sleeping through until we stop doing that and we don't have any wakings that require a shush/pat/replace dummy to send her off again.