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...

From 3 months. But we never put the baby down to sleep at 7 or anything early like that - we would have them up with us in the evening then do a late feed at around 11.00, bed, then they would be up around 5 or 6. Gradually moved the bedtime earlier and the waking up time gradually got later too. Naps during they day meant they weren't short of sleep (we followed the guidelines for age:sleep ratio)

You've got an awful lot of responses that say under 12mo which isn't massively helpful to you. IME with 2 EBF, you need to get over the molars stage and they need to be walking. Both of which caused my two to wake a lot at 10-12mo.

DD slept through at about 18mo after night weaning. DS is 16mo and sleeps through probably 2 out of 3. I always BF to sleep and at any wake ups and cosleep on a mattress on the floor in his room. He's naturally done this without any night weaning strange child!

Around 2yo, 2.5 maybe. That includes drink of water, waking for a wee or bad dreams.

The difference between children is enormous!

DD slept through once at 11 months, she is now almost 2 and has not repeated it. She sounds like your DC OP, up countless times in the night for breastmilk. The sleep deprivation has destroyed me, so I am in the process of weaning her, culminating in two nights in a hotel by myself in a few weeks time so DP can get her used to going to bed without it, and I can sleep for more than a few hours in a row for the first time in over two years. I am praying that weaning will work, I am so utterly exhausted I feel that I have the IQ of a quite stupid dog, and I am going back to university in September so I really really need DD to sleep. I can’t be the sort of mum I want to be because I am just so drained, sleep deprivation is torture, I didn’t want to forcibly wean her but I can’t physically or mentally continue with this. I hope things improve for you soon OP

4 months. But from 2 months she would only wake once for a feed anyway

DS slept through reliably from 5 months old. 7pm-7am, not a peep out of him.

DD is 16 months and still wakes at least once. It's a relentless.

silk pyjamas

At four and five months respectively. FF by this point, own room, very minimal interaction including never ever coming into our bed and not afraid to let them whinge.

OP and silkPJs you have my sympathy! Long term sleep deprivation is truly awful. DD2 (EBF) used to wake 7-9 times every night so I didn't sleep for more than 2 hours max in over a year.

Whilst some EBF babies will sleep through of their own accord, most won't until you night wean them. As long as they're being fed they'll keep waking regularly. With DD2 I went cold turkey on the night feeds at about 11mo. She wasn't eating a huge amount but she was clearly reverse cycling. The first 2 nights were hard but I stayed with her the whole time and cuddled her back to sleep. On the third night she slept for 6 hours for the first time ever. At 15mo she started sleeping through sometimes, although she regularly has bad nights. But I'm so glad that I went through with night weaning her as there has been a marked improvement.

Good luck to you both, I hope you find something that works for you!

Cold turkey on the night feeds made a big difference to us too, although he then wanted to be held all night 🙈 So we had a painful transition getting him to tolerate being put in his cot!

About 15 months.

About 16 months but the twins are now 20 months and still wake up 1-2 times each most nights (although one is better than the other these days). I didn’t change anything, they just figured it out on their own.

4 months. Sleeps from 7.30pm to 7am

8 weeks and my second 3 months.

6 weeks, 3 years and about 6 months reliably for my three. My middle son we coslept with as it was the way we all got the most sleep.

DD1 was 3.5
DD2 was 15 months

Just to add all 3 of kine were ff so formula doesn't necessarily make a difference!

Don’t listen to anyone who tells you that wanting to get more than an hour’s sleep at a stretch is a ‘western concept’ (translation: you’re a selfish monster). It is perfectly normal to need sleep. The division of parenting styles into ‘western’ and ‘natural’ is a) a stupid generalisation and b) fucking patronising and borderline racist.

Maybe join the thread 'the non sleepers are still not sleeping' for support.

First one at 6 weeks old, second one is almost 3 and a half (years not weeks or months!) and is beginning to sleep through occasionally!

Well said @bookworm14

My DS didn't sleep through until 14 months and he was waking from every 45 mins to 3 hours !
And do you know what helped, A DOUBLE bed ! We honestly tried everything, he is still breastfed, we co-slept, had a cot at the side of the bed, white noise ect ... but then I tried the spare bed as we thought maybe he didn't like the cot, and we wanted to buy a toddler bed so we thought we would try him in a bed (before we wasted money) and he slept through! He just needed space.
He rolls all around it in night (we put slats on the floor from ikea then the double bed on top (apparently you can't put a mattress directly on the floor due to mould(
And when he is ill or anything he still only wakes once and I can lay next to him (or feed him) in comfort

Ps I didn't change anything else, still fed to sleep ect he just needed the space

19 months

My daughter was 5 weeks in 2014 and slept through night since then and from 13 months she was on a bottle of Horlicks a night and off formula and slept happily then too.

This one due in August is probably gonna be polar opposite lol