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When did your baby naturally sleep all night?

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enidlowrij · 22/05/2018 21:26

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...

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tomhazard · 25/05/2018 15:37

One was 3 months and one was 8 months. I have a friend whose 5 year old still wakes once a night though.

itsmeagain1 · 28/05/2018 16:11

My son was almost 5 and had started school by the time he started sleeping through. I am still traumatised. He is 9.5 now.

JeanMichelBisquiat · 28/05/2018 16:31

7 and still hit and miss GrinShock. Cranial osteopathy recently has made a huge difference. Previous health probs meant this DC wasn't getting good quality sleep, so I suspect their little body is just very unused to actually feeling tired, rather than chock-full of cortisol.

Other DC is a great sleeper.

If you'd told me, I'm not sure I'd have had them. Luckily they are utterly charming and bring huge amounts of joy to our lives (thank god!)

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enidlowrij · 28/05/2018 20:29

Thank you!! Definitely going to have a look because I know he needs me to teach him how to go to sleep...Because he literally just wakes up at the slightest thing and crawls to me in bed for help to get back to sleep and I definitely feel like I’m on a road to 5 years without sleep because it keeps getting worse. Thanks for the help.

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Toasttea · 28/05/2018 20:32

My first at 7 weeks and my second at 4 months x

enidlowrij · 28/05/2018 20:36

Thank you so much to everyone your suggestions have been so helpful!! After reading that a lot of you cut night feeds I decided I’d give it a try and he was not fussed at all about the night feeds now he goes from 8to 3-6am without a feed! Now it’s just waking about 20 times a night for the bloody dummy so today I’ve decided to take it away, he had his 2 naps with no problem without it and had to rock him for about 2 minuets to go to sleep where as I usualy put him down dummy in and pat his back until he falls asleep, no tears so that’s great now to see what he does tonight without the dummy -.- thank you everyone!!

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goingagain · 28/05/2018 20:40

By sleeping through I assume we are talking about 11/12 hrs sleep without waking, or waking but settling themselves quickly.

#1 about 5 months, could self settle at nap/bedtime from 12 weeks
#2 about 10 months, could self settle from 17 weeks
#3 about 8 months, could self settle from 10 weeks
#4 is 4 months and will often wake only once at about 4am (the others took much longer to get to a 8 hr stretch) However sometimes will wake every 2.5 hrs after midnight 🙄

All EBF on demand, no bottles (apart from #1 who for a month or so had EBM from a bottle at 11pm feed) and no dummies. All in their own rooms from around 4/5 months (apart from #4 who is still in with us).

IT REMAINS A CONSTANT SOURCE OF INTEREST TO ME!!

mummabearfoyrbabybears · 28/05/2018 20:40

Child 1: 2yrs
Child 2: 5months
Child 3: 11 months
Child 4: 3.5 years

All very different Smile

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