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When did your baby start regularly sleeping through the night?

109 replies

EatMeALotOfPeaches · 10/07/2020 22:17

I mean an 8-10 hour stretch. I know each baby is different but I'm interested as to what the range is Smile

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ames7654 · 10/07/2020 22:35

Ds 9 months
Dd 4 weeks

Headshoulderskneesandtoes22 · 10/07/2020 22:36

DC1 aged 3 YEARS, DC2 aged 2 YEARS. Nearly killed us.

CurseryKinkajoo · 10/07/2020 22:37

Honestly? Dc1 was about 12 weeks, dc2 about 8 weeks - both times we were staying with in-laws in Spain and I think the heat knocked them out. Dc3 is 13 (years not months!!) and still hasn’t slept a full night but no longer cries or wakes anyone else, she just reads h too she goes back off again. Dc4 was about 6 months.

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foreverblowingbubbles87 · 10/07/2020 22:37

Bang on 3 months. I'm waiting for him to stop waking at 6am though Smile

doadeer · 10/07/2020 22:38

12 months after we sleep trained with a consultant

namechange34 · 10/07/2020 22:39

4.5 years old for dd1, about 4 years for dd2 Sad

HoldOnToHope · 10/07/2020 22:40

Since 3 weeks old (now 16 months).

Fatted · 10/07/2020 22:43

Mine started going 10-6 at first. Eldest by 11 weeks and youngest by 9 weeks. I class that as sleeping through. It was nearer 4/5 months when they were going to bed at 7pm. But then they started getting up at 5am. Angry. I

ArchbishopOfBanterbury · 10/07/2020 22:45

13 months. After sleep training and night weaning.

loutypips · 10/07/2020 22:46

5 years

pastabest · 10/07/2020 22:52

DC1 - 13 months
DC2 - 20 months

katmarie · 10/07/2020 22:52

With DS it was about 10 weeks or so, he really liked his sleep, and at 2 1/2 still needs a solid 14 hours a night to not be an utter shit the next day. He still wakes in the night occasionally though, probably around once a month or so. With DD it was after 6 months, when we moved her into a bigger cot and her own room. She apparently likes having the space to sleep-roam around the cot in her sleep!

GoneFishingAgain · 10/07/2020 22:56

DC1 - 3 months
DC2 - 3 years

Habbyhadno · 10/07/2020 22:57

When they were nearly three - sorry!

welshweasel · 10/07/2020 23:00

First baby slept 7-7, with a dream feed at 10.30, from 10 weeks.

Second baby slept through for a blissful month aged 4 months, then it went to pot until we sleep trained at 7 months - has slept 7-7 ever since.

Northernsoullover · 10/07/2020 23:04

@HoldOnToHope no one believes me when I say my second slept through from 3 weeks. Even on our first night home from hospital I fed him at something like 10pm then 2am and we got up at 8.30. You had never seen such a bouncy happy mother of a one day old. My eldest was a terror though. He wouldn't sleep for any longer than an hour or two at night. We solved that by co sleeping for 3 years Hmm. I'm just glad I had them in that order. I think I'd have lost the plot if I had the non sleeping child second.

fannyanney · 10/07/2020 23:08

4 years

Shelby30 · 10/07/2020 23:09

First baby 6 weeks! She still loves sleep but was always rubbish at naps.

Second did it at about 11/12 weeks but then had the odd night feed some night so she wasn't fully sleeping through I'd say till closer to 4 months. She starting to get like my first and she'll sleep till 8/9am but doesn't want to nap and she's only 7 months now, she needs a gd few naps!

Parkmama · 10/07/2020 23:15

6 months, seemed to tie in with weaning onto solids. Dropped the 2am bottle by gradually watering the formula down until it was just water and they soon got bored of that and didn't bother waking up for it. I read it is v important not to offer a bottle in the night again once they have slept through without it because that proved they don't need it. I tried to keep that in mind and never offered a bottle again after they slept right through. Of course they regressed but I would offer a dummy or a reassuring shhhush and that was it.

MojoJojo71 · 10/07/2020 23:16

When they started school, both of them.

imabusybee · 10/07/2020 23:23

My eldest has just started reliably sleeping through and she is 3 and a half Blush my youngest slept through for the first time last night and he's 2 and a half Flowers

Mamabear12 · 10/07/2020 23:24

First child 6 months (she was able to drink more milk in one go so that helped). Second child 13 months (finally had enough and let him cry it out. Although, he only cried a few minutes a night and went back to sleep for three nights in a row and then stopped waking. I was too scared to do this earlier for fear he would awake first born). Third baby is only 7 months and wakes twice to feed, but like her brother she doesn’t drink a lot in one go and doesn’t accept formula. I mainly breastfeed and she snacks a lot instead of full feeds...

geojojo · 10/07/2020 23:27

My daughter still wakes up most evenings and always at 4am before going back to sleep again. She's 2.5 years. I can't even imagine having a 3 month old sleeping for 10 hours, it's mind blowing. I have bad sleepers though. They are very lovely in other ways!

Ylvamoon · 10/07/2020 23:29

DD 12 weeks
DS ... let me think, a full night (so 7 hours +) from around 6 years. But by 4 years old, he used to go bed around 9pm and played with his toys until around 11ish that's when I went to sleep anyway! (He had a night light.) Usually up by 5am... I didn't really have to get up but was obviously awake listening to him playing.

Warsawa31 · 10/07/2020 23:29

9 months - few weeks here and there of not bit had done it solidly for 4 months again - 7 until 6 or 7.