How old were your babies when they started sleeping through?

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I'm really struggling with my DS who is now 7 weeks, he wakes at least 3 times in the night for a feed. He is bottle fed but has been having 6/7 oz so it's taking a long time to feed him.
Its really starting to interrupt his sleep as he wont settle straight after a bottle.
I keep being told and reading about women who's babies sleep right through from being 4 weeks.
Can anyone give me some advice on how to get him to settle/ reduce feeds before I turn into a total and utter zombie?

As above three times a night is good. What are his feed times? If it is 12, 3 and 6 your DH/DP should do the 6am. If you have a spare room you should go in after the 3am feed so you get a solid block of sleep. Alternatively go to bed really early and let dh/dp do the first feed.

All my five were six weeks old sleeping from 10pm until 6am. They were bottle fed. Before six weeks they'd get a dream feed when I went to bed and wake once between 2am and 3am. It was fashionable when my older ones to have a strict routine so I'd feed roughly by the clock during the day and during the night feed there would be minimal disturbance so wouldn't put on the light would feed and resettle hopefully without needing a nappy change.
It's not at all the done thing these days but it suited me and I continued when my youngest was born even if the midwife advised against routines, little knowing dd was in a routine before I was signed off mostly out of necessity because of school runs to four different schools and colleges and youngest ds with autism.

I think 7 weeks is really very young, and, although it's hard not to, comparing your baby to other people's will just cause you grief. My DD didn't really sleep through until 18 months, and even then, she still woke sometimes.
Sleep deprivation is really awful so I feel for you. Just try to take care of yourself - get/accept any help you can so you can rest sometimes.

8 months

4/5 months before he stopped waking for night feeds (formula fed) which I was really pleased with.

Approx 6months. Used to wake for 3 feeds at night until about 4months and then slowly went down to one feed then none. Nothing changed which made him sleep for longer, he just got older...! He now sleeps from 7pm to 5/6am. Not perfect but good enough for me!
Like you, I used to pray for the day he slept for longer as I spent most of my days feeling like an over-tired zombie however, things do get better. If you have a dp, could they do the first or last feed??

Just to put it in context ...

Ds is never up for the day after 5am, more usually before 4. Every nap is a battle. He will have one stretch of 2 ish hours early evening then it's back to at least hourly wakings until 4 am again.

You have a good sleeper! If you're struggling get your Dh to do one feed so you get a block of sleep

DD woke every four hours for the first couple of months (regardless of day or night). After eight weeks she would go six or seven hours through the nighttime but it generally meant she went to sleep around 10pm and woke at 4/5am and would then sleep again until 9/10am.

Not sure when she first slept all the way through but I know it was before she was three months old as we moved house then and she was in a fairly regular routine then.

Ds1 - 3.5
Ds2 - 11 months

I'm hoping DS3 when they arrive will be a sleeper

And yes, only waking 3 times a night at 7 weeks is brilliant. Babies are not designed to sleep all night.

Well past 1 and not reliably every night until he dropped his nap at 26 months.

About 9-10 months, if not a bit older?

16 months

What helped me was viewing it as normal so stopped thing 'not abloddygain' when did woke, as this adjusted my mood about it all..

My son didn't sleep through until he was 12mo. It was when we implemented the supernanny method.

3 wakes a night at 7 weeks isn't too bad. But my son was an exceptionally bad sleeper, so my point of reference may not be that reliable!

3 wakes at 7weeks good! DD is just over 4 months and still wakes at 3/4am for a feed (ff). She has slept through occasionally since about 9/10weeks but don't expect her to sleep through reliably for another few months.

Just curious, those of you who say your baby slept through at 7/12 etc weeks, was that for the first time and then only occasionally or near enough every night? I've never heard of babies who just started sleeping through every night like that.

Mine is 7 weeks old FF and wakes every 3ish hours during the night. My dp does the early morning feed if he isn't working an early shift. My mum keeps telling me the trick is to get him into a routine but how the frig do you do that without leaving a baby to cry till you feed him?

Oh and as for other people's baby's. Ive had more than one person tell me their baby slept from 10-6 at (insert very young age here) with only a feed at 1am... That's not sleeping through to me.

Cash for DD the first time was a one off but within a week she did regularly sleep through virtually every night since (she is 14.5 months now). She has been appalling at learning to eat solids and various other things but she just seems to like sleeping. She does have a sleepyhead and I think it helped her learn to self settle without allowing her to thrash around or anything but I am dreading the day she outgrows it and needs to learn about sleeping in a cot/bed.

DS1 - 5 (yes 5 years old!)
DD - 6ish months I think
DS2 - he's 9 months old and I'm still waiting, still up 2/3 times a night

7 weeks OP?! You really expect a 7 week old to sleep through? Come on!

All of 3 of mine slept through from 7 weeks. Previous to that were waking for just 1 feed at 3/4am.

I'm honestly not being smug, just proving that it is possible. A result of all parenting methods generally scorned on by mumsnet!!

Ten months to sleeping through.

When he was feeding at 12, 3 and 6 Dh did the midnight feed with expressed milk because he doesn't like going to bed till after 11 anyway.
I went to bed at 8!!

What does sleeping through the night count as then? I thought 1030pm-6am would be sleeping through. Happens 6 nights out of 7

My 7 week old started sleeping through the night last week. She alternates one night 7pm - 7am with a feed at 10pm and the next night she'll also need a feed at 5am.

We have worked really hard to get her into a routine during the day, with regular feeds and naps. I have two other dc and really needed to get a reasonable amount of sleep at night. I followed the Gina Ford Contented Baby Routine from when she was 2 weeks old and it's worked really well.

DS - 18 months (ebf)
DD - 6 months and wakes every hour/2 hours at night. (Ebf)

I do think that to extent babies are babies, you get what you're given. But formula fed babies do definitely sleep through earlier.

When people say 'my LO slept through from X months old, we did a bedtime routine, bath, book etc' it drives me a bit nuts. Surely everyone does this? It is not a masterplan.

Dd is six months now and occasionally the last week has started sleeping 9pm-5am but that's only been twice.
She's normally bed at 8:30. Up at 12-1 and 4-5 then up anytime between 5-7 for the day.
Your baby is doing brilliantly.
Dd is formula fed as well