When did your breast fed baby sleep through the night or long stretches?

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When is it okay not to be worried that your baby is sleeping long stretches?
eg 11pm - 6am

or
8pm - 7pm?

Thank you

Mine never did, at least not without intervention. I co-slept with her for as long as she was nursing, and even after the point where she needed to eat at night, she would wake up and want to nurse back to sleep. Around 18 months old, I decided I wanted to begin weaning, so I started with refusing her the breast at night and soothing her back to sleep in other ways. She adjusted quickly, and by 19 months we were fully weaned without much fuss.

I was told by my pediatrician that if at 3-4 months, she was still on her growth curve, that it was not necessary to intentionally wake her for feedings.

Once my son hit 1yr he would sometimes sleep through (maybe once a fortnight).
It wasn’t until I weaned him off having milk through the night that he slept through for 11 hours, this was about 18months old. I had to sleep train/wean for it to happen.

First one slept through from 5 weeks, second one was over 5 years old. It does depend on each child imo.

Two DC - both breastfed and both didn’t sleep for long stretches until 18-19 months. Everyone who said “Don’t babies sleep through the night by 12 months?” got increasingly dirty looks 😅

I never did cry it out but my first had a pristine sleep routine (perk of being a lockdown baby). My second just muddled through and it didn’t seem to make any difference so I’m blaming genetics.

2 of mine, not til toddlers.
The middle one, by 10 weeks, was 'sleeping through' (not quite sleeping through) - 10pm to 4am/5am. This one was the one who fed constantly through the day though.

Child 1 from about 6 weeks, I elimated last night feed at around 7-8 months
Child always did at least 4 hours, did 5-6 hours from 4 weeks ish, stopped night feeds and slept through from around 7 months too

I think I was told that once they've regained their birthweight then not to worry about waking them (I have big babies for context, so might be a bit later if they're more dainty!).

But when they actually did was another matter - my first I had a night or two at three months, then not again until over a year, and he started consistently sleeping through at about 15 months. My second, the odd night from maybe 11/12 months, and he now fairly often sleeps through at 19 months - that only happened after I night weaned about 6 weeks ago.

About 26 months for eldest

And 16m for youngest.

Although youngest has been set back recently by a bout of illness so now wakes again over night. We had a few months at least 🥱

They're all different.

Once they've regained birth weight, are waking for feeds every 2-3 hours in the day and are alert and gaining weight you can definitely let them sleep as long as they like at night.
One of mine slept 11-7ish from 6 weeks (didn't last though!)

Both DDs EBF one is nearly 8 and still doesn't sleep through but she does have ADHD
Second DD slept through from 10-6 from 6 weeks.

I definitely think it's child dependant. Expecting twins in April so let's hope they follow my younger DDs pattern

DC1 = 11 months but we continued to have night wakings
DC2 = 10 weeks ...it was like a miracle. Nothing I did was really any different but he latched better and didn't have nearly the colic issues as DC1.

If you mean 8pm-7am, none of my children ever sleep until 7am 🤣
always one that’s up at 6am!

11 weeks. 2.5 now and still sleeps through

God I'm jealous of everyone else. Breastfed DS til 26 ish month and he still doesn't sleep through the night 90% of the time now at 4 and a half. At least now he wakes up, gets out of bed and climbs in with me for a cuddle so it's not too bad but sleeping through.. I dream of it 😅

I will say he's done the 5-6 hour stretches since 2 though so can't complain.

okay seems like most don’t lol
when is is acceptable for them to have longer stretches?

My bf daughter never slept through until I weaned her at 18 months. Within days she slept all night.

DS1. 9 weeks old. DS2. didn't sleep through til 2.5 but stopped feeding aged 15months.
I think it's down to character. DS2 just always wanted to party.

My son was ebf and slept through the night for the first time age 16 months.... we stopped boobing to sleep at the start of the night to try and get him to accept something other than being fed back to sleep when he was 13 months old, and his sleep gradually improved over time. He's nearly 21 months now and sleeps through 7:30-7:30 about half the time. The other half, he'll have a split night or he'll just wake for no real reason. I haven't fed him to sleep at night for weeks, and he still wakes up for a cuddle.

It's honestly down to character I think. Other ebf babies I know slept through the night from 4 weeks old, and others still don't sleep through at age 2. Same goes for formula fed.

Longer stretches come and go. My son did 6 hours regularly from 4-8 months, then his sleep went down the toilet and he woke 10-12 times a night until he was 1! Luck of the draw :)

Are you asking when you can stop waking a baby to feed in the night?
Once feeding is established, they've regained birthweight and are waking themselves to feed in the day. Most babies will be in that position after the first couple of weeks.

All slept 6-8 hour stretches quite young. 1-2 weeks old for the youngest two. A little older for my first. They would have a long feed before need then suddenly drift off the breast and sleep! Sleep regressions hit later but the long sleeps with my second two were great! During sleep regressions I just co slept so I didn't have to move/fully wake up.

It coincided with him learning to walk around 10/11 months but it wasn't a linear progression. I remember he was sleeping through at 2/3 months and I wondered what all the fuss was about then the 4 month sleep regression bit me in the bum for the next 6 months.

I find when is is acceptable an odd way to ask! Like you actually can't force a baby or child to sleep longer than they will, can or want to 🤣

Once they're over their birth weight it's fine for them to sleep if they can and want to.

Yes sorry that is what I am asking!

Does the worry of the first few weeks of them being too tired to feed, low blood sugars and jaundice disappear as they get older so allowed to sleep longer?