i thought this day would never come

[StealthPolarBear]

I have2 dcs, one almost 5 and one 2. Until what seems like recently, dreadful sleepers and eaters. Last night they both slept all night, 8-6. Today, they both ate all thieir dinner. Wow. What will I bore people with talk to friends and family about now?

wow!!!!!!!!!!! Just wow.

ah Stealth your post made me laugh. I too remember that first unbroken night after what seemed a sleep deprived eternity.

Oh sorry this isn't actually the first unbroken night. She has slept through most of the time (maybe 4 or 5 nights a week) for the last month or 6 weeks. It is still a novelty though. Plus the food - DS has been worse than DD but it used to be a fight to get them to eat...anything really. This is the first time that I have noticed them do both!!

Dd2 slept well between the ages of 2 and 2. It all stops when they hit three. 1am is currently her preferred bedtime followed by a 6:30am waking.

I have just made her hike stroll around the local nature center. Lovely walk around three miles up hill. She is not happy and has asked to go bed . She is never walking there again, apparently. Guess what we are doing tomorrow? [evil cackle]

You have done a very good thing, you have given me hope.

That was actually my aim Albrecht. I haven't done anything clever or changed anything, they just fell into it very gradually. I just hope it lasts

Dooin, that sounds awful. DS was never that bad, and once he did strat sleeping at about 2 (with a blip when DD was born) he slept well from then.
DD has been AWFUL. OK in that our lives were on hold and I just used to sleep with her in the spare room, feeding her constantly, but unlike DS she just never slept through. I think (but memory could be wrong) that well past her second birthday she had only ever done 11-4 or 12-5 (that sort of "sleeping through") 3 or 4 times in her life. I was starting to despiar.

DS is 18 months and has never slept more than 4 hours, usually 9-midnight-ish if I'm lucky and then shit after that. And the whole bloody world tells me its because I co-sleep and bf, not that that is the only way I can cope, no that is the cause.

But this time last year he was waking every 20-40 minutes and sounds the same, the time has gradually extended, with huge blips for teething and illness, none of the sleep solutions made any difference (except making me feel like a failure of course!).

Basically just holding on until his teeth are through and then really hoping I might get one (just one!) sleep through.

Stealth she has been trained to stay in bed and either torture dd1 watch TV or colour in until the 'wake up' alarm goes off at 7am. I have to admit that some weekends the alarms batteries mysteriously 'fall out' but by the time dd2 notices she has managed to convince dd1 to get up and make them breakfast [bad mummy]