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[SardineJam]

I have a nearly 9mo ds who doesnt yet sleep through. He is breast fed [which im happy doing for as long as necessary] along with eating solids, despite this he wakes during the night and nothing will settle him, apart from putting him on the breast and when I do put him on he is ravenous... All the other babies that I know who are roughly around his age are sleeping through, however they are all bottle fed. I'm just curious to see what your experience is with the type of milk feed you give your little one and how they sleep. So mine is ~ breast fed, doesnt sleep through

11mo bf but with lots of solids~ sleeps through on a 60/40 basis. 9 months was a killer though, he woke up A LOT after sleeping pretty well and then one day he just stopped doing it.

ds1 - woke every 2 hours until he was around 15 months old

ds2 - slept right through from day 1

Both fed the same way - start off bf, had problems (won't bore you with details, just have on another thread! ), went to mixed feeding, ended up fully ff.

DD bfed, still wakes up once or twice in the night. She's 2.7. Stopped feeding her in the night aged 2. Settles with a cuddle.

9-14 months can be a key time for changes in sleep patterns. It's as their brains go through major developmental changes and they meet big milestones like walking and talking. They cannot 'switch off' and it affects their sleep. Be reassured that it's normal and do what you can to get through it.

I remember very well the 'oh I know how to stand up so I'll even do it in my sleep even though I can't lie back down again' phase. Again, normal.

Notanun- you are completely right, DS walked just before 9mths and this had a massive effect. We also moved house and he had his own room for the first time after sharing with DD. Twice a night at 2.7 though, sheesh pass the brandy woman

DD BF - Slept through from 16 weeks. She used to wake and rather than give her the breast I would cuddle her in and sooth her back to sleep. She had a growth spurt at about 6.5 months so started waking again for a feed, after a week or so she began sleeping through again.

It did help that we co-slept.

Allstarprincess how old is your little one now? We've kind of done a few nights of co-sleeping, he goes to bed in his cot but ends up in our bed when i've fed him as im too tired to stay awake. When did you finish with the co-sleeping? Was the transition to cot/bed difficult?

DD is 15 months, bfed and still wakes a couple of times - we are also co-sleeping though, which I'm sure makes night-wakings go on for longer.

My two siblings and I were all exclusively bfed. I slept through from 10 weeks (apparently - I suspect rose-tinted memories!), not sure about middle one, youngest was still having one night feed up until 12 months when he apparently just stopped waking up for it.

DD is 12 months, BF. Slept through from 5.5 months (with the odd hiccup). Heve friends with bf babies who started sleeping through much earlier than that, but also some much later too!

ds1 bottle fed, slept through at about 5.5 months

dd breastfed slept through at about 5 months

ds2 breastfed, slept through at about 7 months

Should have mentioned before, I'm not that convinced that hunger and sleep are related when babies are older (unless it's a growth spurt). It can be related to anything from daytime sleep (being overtired), developmental spurts (crawling etc), illness, change in routine or just comfort. Sometimes no reason at all!

Sardinejam

She is 2.3 now and co-slept with us for nearly her first year. We then moved her into the cot and after a couple of nights fussing with us going in and out to soothe she was fine.

We never intended to co-sleep, it just meant I got much more sleep and she seemed to be much more content. Which is, after all, what we all seem to want!

She now sleeps perfectly. She tells us when tired about 8 each night (even amazing granddad when he was babysitting the other night by asking for bed.)

We would have the occasion when she would wake in the night wanting a soothing feed as she had been ill, teething etc but I found that co-sleeping was so easy I would definitely do it again.

Actually, DD generally sleeps like a dream from 7 pm ish to midnight (when we go to bed), so is technically sleeping through most nights I think. Sure as hell doesn't feel like it when she wakes approx 200 times between midnight and 8 am though!