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?

DS1, EBF until 13mo just started sleeping through at 2years 10months.

DTs, also EBF until 13 mo, slept through at 15mo thanks be to Jesus because I thought I was going to collapse from the sleep deprivation with 2

I do think that it's largely down to the child.

Dd is 4 and I'm still waiting ....

DS is 6.7 and was up 3x last night

Sorry 3.7 that's pretty usual for him

About 3 months but still woke for 11pm dream feed until 5 months. She woke have slept through sooner if I'd just stopped dream feeding!

Dd was 9 weeks when she went 9.30-5am which I classed as through the night. Ds was 3 and a half.

Sleep is for most up and down. Ds slept through for a week or 2 at 4 months, from 7-13 months then from 17 months onwards. It is very tough. I got through it by Going to bed early and dh doing the last feed so I got the stretch between 8-2/3.

DC1 - 6 weeks, ebf. Still a fabulous sleeper now at 2yrs.
DC2 - 6 weeks ebf. Stopped sleeping through at 16 weeks, woke hourly at least for the next 4 months. Now wakes once about 4 times a week

About 12 weeks. But this is after a weeks of bedtime routine, (in night garden, bath, bottle in dark room, going in to comfort and replace dummy), after a week, he became ready for bed by 7. Did a dream feed at about midnight (partner stayed up late) where he didn't wake up, but was fed half-asleep. As soon as we began weaning at 5.5 months, we dropped the dream feed as he didn't seem to need it and he sleeps until any time between 6.30 until 8.30. Try a routine. The dreaded 'Gina Ford bedtime' worked with my baby...

Dd1 slept through (10-6) from 6 weeks old exactly. Dd2 is 19 months old and still wakes at least once every single night. She is an awful sleeper. In fact I am currently laid on my bed with her, waiting for her to stop bouncing on me, wrapping my hair into knots and sticking her toe in my eye. Bed time was at 7.30.

DS is nine months and currently sleeps through from around 19:15 - approx. 06:30 more often than he doesn't (although I do give him a BF dream feed around 10:30 so realise it doesn't properly count). At six months old he was still co-sleeping most of the night and waking every two hours or so for a BF. Still can't quite believe it...

My dd was a year old when she started consistently sleeping through.

I know you have lots of responses but 7 weeks is teeny tiny to be STTN. DS didn't once until he was 18months and still wakes up most nights now (2.2yo) for a cuddle/lost dummy/get in our bed/other random reason. DD is 3mo and she wakes once or twice for a feed which I think is incredible.

4.5 years old. I am surprised I am not dead!

DS1 didn't sleep through until he was 2.5, DD was an angel child and slept from 10-6 at 12 weeks so I had DS2 thinking I had become the baby whisperer, I was ready to write a book on sleep. Ha ha ha!!

Since 10 weeks. Then hit 6 months, started teething and is up every hour from 3am. Hoping its temporary!

11 months. They'll do it when they're ready as self soothing in between sleep cycles is a skill

I think I'll speak for a lot of mums on here when I say it really does take time and it's more about you adjusting than them sleeping through...

My daughter hasn't always been a good sleeper, she's never had naps ever and despite having a very chilled out bedtime routine since two months old I would say she started solidly sleeping through at 13 months Although I would like to add that she would still stir in the night for a dummy it's only for the past two months that she has been really sleeping through and doing 7-7, she is 17 months

This is probably not what you want to hear but hang in there it really does get easier

DS1 first slept through at 5.5 months. It lasted about 3 weeks.

He went through a phase of sleeping through fairly reliably from about 15 months.

However it didn't last, he's now 3.8 years and wakes most nights.

Mine is 7 weeks, we put him to bed about 7/7.30 after a quiet bottle (formula fed) he wakes up about 1.30/2ish for a feed and will stir again about 5 ish but happy to have a cuddle/dummy until about 7ish! It's only just been this way about a week so it could change at any time I imagine! Best thing I did was put him into a bedtime routine so I'm prepared and he knows when he has his longer sleep.

First dd slept through from 6 weeks, second dd is 11 years old and still hasn't got the hang of it!
( yes, I did mean to write years )

I'm an awful mother I genuinely don't remember, she didn't start sleeping through all of a sudden one night would drop a feed, the next night wake up for one. I gave a dreamfeed until a year because of severe reflux it was the only one she kept down think this helped her to sleep on in the morning.

15 months for DD1. DD2,is 6 months so not yet.

Every baby is different. I honestly don't think you can force them to sleep longer.

Reliably? 22 months for both DC, both ebf. Before then we had the odd night here or there, but no straight runs. That being said, DS2 (2.3) still wakes in the early hours some nights, but not often now. DS1 had nightmares around twice a week until he was 3 and a half, and went through a few phases of appearing in our bed night after bloody night for a while.

Both mine had clearly read the Gina book and slept through from about 10 weeks, with a 10.30 pm feed to start with, then phased that out when we introduced solids at 22ish weeks. Both still (12 and 14) sleep like logs.
I am pretty sure it's genetic...