Sleeping through?

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When a mum/dad says their baby is sleeping through do they mean all night with no feed? For instance a friend says her 4 week old is sleeping through, surely it must be having feeds during the night at that age?
I have a 6 week old DS. He is my second DC, and I remember with my daughter that sleeping thrombin was one of the first of many things that becomes a competition with some parents.
just wondering!

I think what parents say and what children actually do are two very separate things.

Technically sleeping through is 6hrs straight or something like that.

Some very small babies sleep for long periods, other children (insert cursory glance at 3.8yr old dd here) don't sleep through until much older.

I never counted it until I got 7 hours.

Having said that, I co-slept so got plenty of sleep anyway.

I didn't consider it sleeping through until DS went 10.30 - 6.30 with no feed and no wake.

6 hours does not a good night's sleep make, in my opinion.

It's weird to be competative about it as we found that DS did it totally by himself with no input by us at all, apart from the usual of keeping night feeds boring and trying to feed lots in the evening to keep him going.

I count it as when they go down at 7/7.30 but don't wake...at all.....until after 6am the next morning. A friend of mine used to say hers slept through,but then went on to say they'd have to pop the dummy back in every few hrs, which to me isn't sleeping through! Everyone has different definitions,and most baby's go through periods of sleep regression at one stage or another (my nearly 3yr old included). Just try not to get caught up in the competitiveness of it...easier said than done!

Sleeping through? Don't know what that is, my youngest just turned 2

IIRC some books suggest sleeping from midnight to 5 am counts as sleeping through.

To me, staying asleep from when I go to bed til sometime after 6am feels like they have slept through

Yes, 00.00 - 05.00 is the technical definition of "sleeping through".

And I agree with moaningminnie on my personal definition!

Although the ideal sleeping through is when they don't need any parental resettling from bedtime until getting up time.....

And some babies are naturally long sleepers and others are more restless. IMO, there's only so much parents can do to make a restless sleeper require less overnight attention. Most of it is luck of the draw and maturity.

My DD is almost 12 months old and still hasn't slept through properly - but she only wakes once or twice and I can usually get 6 hours (total) or more of sleep nowadays - which, compared with the early days, I do consider a reasonable night's kip!