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

Why is is based on birth weight?
So if my baby is born 8lb but lost 10% but my friends baby is born 6lb but hasn’t lost any weight but my baby weighs more still, how does that work?

Er never, well not whilst I was feeding them. Dd1 was 2.5 years and dd2 was 6 years before sleeping through without climbing in with me

Babies are all different sizes, so it's based on the individual baby rather than a specific weight.
A 6lb baby that is healthy, back at birth weight, gaining weight fast, waking for feeds in the day can sleep as long as they like.
An 8lb baby that is losing weight or not gaining, lethargic, not waking for feeds themselves needs to be woken to feed regularly.

How old is your baby now?

DGS is 12 weeks, he is sleeping about 6 - 7 hours per night for about a week, midwife said to DD as long as he is feeding about 8 - 12 times in 24 hours it’s fine to let him sleep. He regained his birth weight and is putting on weight.

DC1 was sleeping 11-6 at 5 weeks after a quick feed at 10.30; the health visitor said it was too long and I should wake him up but I gave up trying to after a couple of days. DC2 unfortunately insisted on 8-5 and wouldn't wake at 10/11, and finally slept till a sensible time at 9 months.

We stopped waking my daughter around 2-3weeks when she started waking every 3h anyway. She was back at birth weight by day 15. Around the same time she became more alert.

It's less about overall size and more about making sure that they are sleeping because they are satisfied and not that they are sleeping because they are too tired to feed. If they are feeding enough to maintain or gain weight they should be feeding enough to have to the energy to wake for feeds.

My daughter is now 4 and still doesn't reliably sleep through this has been as a breastfeeding baby, formula fed baby, oat milk fed toddler and now no liquids preschooler. She's a reflux and allergy baby/ child and this is the biggest influencing factor on her sleep. When it's bad she's awake every 45 minutes like she was as newborn. So many things influence sleep

How did you go about weaning him off the milk/sleep train him?

Sleep training: I did a really light version of the Ferber Method (I never let my son cry for more than 5 minutes but I would keep leaving the room)

weaning: when he woke in the night, I would go in with a sippy cup of cow’s milk and offer that, as well as a sippy cup of water. He used to get frustrated at being offered a cup of milk and he would cry for a breastfeed but I used to just say “no, but you can have a cup of milk”.

It really didn’t take long for him to sleep through after that! Maybe a fortnight if I remember correctly. He was still having a breastfeed morning and evening so it wasn’t completely gone :)

I weaned him completely at 25 months by offering a cup of milk at bedtime. Tears for maybe a week and then he got over it!

Good luck x

Sleep training: I did a really light version of the Ferber Method (I never let my son cry for more than 5 minutes but I would keep leaving the room)

weaning: when he woke in the night, I would go in with a sippy cup of cow’s milk and offer that, as well as a sippy cup of water. He used to get frustrated at being offered a cup of milk and he would cry for a breastfeed but I used to just say “no, but you can have a cup of milk”.

It really didn’t take long for him to sleep through after that! Maybe a fortnight if I remember correctly. He was still having a breastfeed morning and evening so it wasn’t completely gone :)

I weaned him completely at 25 months by offering a cup of milk at bedtime. Tears for maybe a week and then he got over it!

Good luck x

11pm - 6am : DC1 20 mths, DC2 2.5yrs, both a few months after full weaning.

8pm - 7am : Hahahahahaha! Lol, never... Eldest is 14 😩😂

Sorry ☹️

Around 4 weeks, then used to wake for one or two feeds, until 9 months when they slept through for 12 hours. I think they are either good sleepers or not