When did your baby naturally sleep all night?

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I understand babies weren’t designed to sleep all night and it’s a very western thing to want a baby to sleep all night and train as soon as possible, but my god do I want to sleep, i miss it so much!! My son is just such a bad sleeper He’s almost 11 months and his average is waking 5 to 8 times since day 1, on a bad night which happens often is anything up to 20 times. I’ve just gotten over the worst 3 weeks where he was constantly wanting to stand throughout the night and was waking over 15 times every night. But now he’s walking and he finally at last takes longer naps in day no longer have to deal with 20 min naps .. yay ....but he still wakes up around 5 to 7 times a night. What’s the deal?? At night he has a feed every 3 hours and wakes up in between for a cuddle of dummy. He has 3 meals a day breastmilk after morning nap and formula after evening nap and 2 snacks too either fruit or rice cakes then he has 6 oz at 7pm an hour after he has dinner then he has 7 oz plus breastmilk at 8pm but he sill manages to wake and make space at 11 for milk... he’s breastfed throughout the night. When did yours sleep all night naturally without any sleep training?? I’m hearing more and more of people saying there kids still wake for a feed at 2 years old. I thought once there like a year and a half they just don’t want milk at night...

DD1 - 2 years, DD2 - 8 years. Both breastfed, both treated exactly the same. No rhyme or reason to it.

2 years until the first nights sleep.

Mine ranged from 3 months to 3 years.

DD just shy of 4 and only just started to sleep through the night without waking for more than one night in a row... long may
It last!

Ds was 15 months. Breastfeeding until 25 months but slept through the night (8pm until 8am) about 95% of the time since he was 15 months.

Dd is 14 weeks and I'm not holding my breath!

Good tips from @kosha

I did something similar to @emmafh3

I was very anti sleep training until I had a terrible sleeper than nearly broke me

Now I think Sarah Ockwell Smith is mostly bullshit if you have a bad sleeper, some babies need help to sleep well

My son is sleeping much better since we stopped the night feeds, he is better rested and no longer chronically sleep deprived

Plus his parents are surviving (due to slightly less extreme sleep deprivation) which is surely to his benefit

I'm always curious to know what people classify as sleeping through as I think it means different things to different people. My 6 month old usually sleeps from around 7:30pm until 4am or 5am and then needs settling with a dummy a few times until around 7am. He usually settles pretty quickly so I don't think we have it too bad.

Also wanting uninterrupted sleep might be a “western” thing but... news flash... we live in the “west” and have to live our lives accordingly, which is pretty damn hard after months and years of sleeping for no more than an hour or two at a time.

Dd1 slept from 7-7 with a dream feed at 10pm from 7 weeks.
Dd2 did the same from 6 months
Ds1 did the same from 5 weeks
Ds2 is 3 and a half and I'm still waiting.

2 year old still wakes up at least 5 out of 7 nights either crying or wanting milk..would be nice if she slept through more often but doesn't look like it will happen anytime soon

Could count on one hand the amount of times she slept through before she was 5 years old. She is now 6 and a half and has been sleeping through most nights for about 4 months, so just over 6yo.

Listen I know it’s a ‘western’ thing but I am Asian. Back home my friends all co-sleep. Their 5 year olds don’t go to sleep without Mum. They are beyond exhausted. Two of my closest friends refused to have second children.
Also. Most of my friends back in Asia have a LOT more help- housekeepers, cooks, parents and in laws to help so it mitigates the sleeplessness.

I don’t like methods that involve leaving a baby to cry it out in any form for any period of time but it doesn’t mean you can’t nudge a baby on to good sleep habits. It depends on if your baby has any medical issues, reflux etc so there are no easy solutions but there is also no reason to put up with years of sleeplessness because you are feeling guilty of ‘western parenting.’

Dd1 age 2 after I stopped breastfeeding. She woke 2 hourly up until that point.

Dd2 3 to 6 months then teething kicked in so woke up completely from 3-5am and went back to sleep when dd1 got up. That stopped when breasfeeding stopped at 17 months.

DS from 8 weeks onwards he would sleep for longer stretches and feed quickly back to sleep if he woke. Still a good sleeper, but a very early riser (4:30am is our summer norm).

DS1 - 5 years old
DD1 - around 4/5 months
DS2 - he’s 2.5 and I’m still waiting
DD2 - 3/4 weeks

Guess who’s my favourite

This will sound odd...but when I told them: "No mummy, no daddy , no milk in night" I spent the day making it very clear.

The next day I wondered why I had t told them sooner.

DS1 was 13 months, DS2 was 4.

DS - 11 months
DD - is now 2.5 years and sometimes sleeps through

Mine was 2 - it's worth the wait

Ds was almost 3 years old. I thought I might die from exhaustion tbh. Dd thankfully was about 2/3 weeks.

My first slept through at just 7 weeks, my second was still waking once or twice at 8 months!

23 months, breastfed and co sleeping

DD started regularly sleeping through 7pm-7/8am with a dream feed at 10pm about 2 weeks ago. She's 5 months old now.

3 months.

Mine were both combine fed from birth. DD1 started going from ~10 to ~7 from 7/8 weeks and by 12 weeks slept ~11 hours through. Shocking day time naps though and terrible sleep regression at 18 months that eventually settled into 'early rising' (which was actually about 5.30-6 so not bad) for a few months

DD2 I can't remember as clearly, think it was more like 5-6 months but once she started going through she has only once or twice been up in the night due to illness. Never had any regression with her.

They were both given ff at night time and usually 4 hourly so 1 as we went to bed and 1 early hours most nights.

We got off very lightly.

At age 2 1/2 my son finally managed 6 hours (11-5). I was ecstatic!

Dc1: when she stopped breastfeeding at 15 months. She'd refused boob for a couple of weeks and I was spending hours rocking her or walking her round the block in a pram to sleep as boob had always been the only way. Then I gave her a bottle of milk and she drank it happily and slept through for the first time and every night after.

Dc2: 2 and a half when she wasn't refusing boob but was suddenly not falling asleep on it so I tried her with a bottle of milk and then started sleeping through a couple of months later.

Dc3 15 months when I moved her into her own room because she seemed really unsettled cosleeping, at first she she had less times waking up and then not long after I gave a night bottle and now if she wakes; it's just a case of passing her a bottle.

Breastfeeding has been the thing to keep all mine awake. Not that I'm against it, but it seems quite clear.