When did your baby start regularly sleeping through the night?

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

For those whose babies slept through from a few weeks old...

Do you mean fast asleep with no feeds for 8-12 hours?? Isn’t that a long time for a newborn to go without a feed? Are you supposed to wake a baby to feed them?

If you are feeding, what do you mean by ‘sleeping through?’

From a FTM rapidly approaching due date!

Slept for 8 hours. Plenty of growth and very content. No. Didn’t wake them. Preferred my sanity. They were just fine!

If your baby sleeps from a young age - take that sleep for you with open arms! Embrace it and enjoy it. Babies don’t suffer with sleeping a bit longer and they can drink all day!

5 months consistently 11/12 hours but he has phase where he’s a bit off for a few nights for teething / illness.
He’s just gone from 2 naps to 1 and we had a couple of fussy nights where he woke for a couple of hours in the middle of the night. He does just faff about and go back to sleep himself eventually (I don’t go in) but he still wakes me up !

DD slept 6.30-4ish from about 7 months, then fully through (6.30-5.30) from 12 months. She dropped to one nap and started walking confidently in the same week, so that clearly did it for her 😂

I should point out that she’s always got herself off to sleep so it wasn’t a self-settling issue, she just needed to be more tired.

1 By about 4 months
2 By about 10 months
3 Never in 15 months
4 By 6 weeks

8 weeks. Then stopped again about 6 months. Then stopped again around 11 months. 18 months.. Etc

DS1 8 weeks
DS2 11 Weeks

Both EBF at that stage.

At 6 weeks slept from 10-7 is. I’d never wake a healthy sleeping baby

2.5 years and still waiting. 3 hours chunk of sleep is a very good night!

Those of you who had very young babies sleeping through, did you do something to get them to do this? Or were they just born that way? I’m very jealous.... I miss sleep!!!

I think at about 3-4 months - sorry to say that it was very closely related to when I stopped BF. He's been a sound sleeper ever since.

11 months

11 months

4 years.

3 years old!!

9 months, but just the once! The next time was nearly 3 years. DC2 first slept through age 4.5. At the worst, they were both waking multiple times and there would be 6+ wakings a night. No kind of sleep training would work on DC2, I tried them all. Eventually had to go with crying it out with DC1. No help at all from ex husband (note the 'ex'), it damn near broke me and impacted my mental health hugely. Cheers kids! The buggers still wake really early no matter when they go to bed now too...

Ds just turned 3 and still isn't guaranteed although we're often getting to 4 or 5 am now before he calls for me

About 10 weeks. If DD cried just after I put her down, I’d pick her up briefly and put her down again (and give her back her dummy). I’d sometimes have to do this two or three times, but it usually didn’t take long for her to settle. A colleague told me she had to sit beside her baby son’s cot every evening until he fell asleep, and I thought there was no way I’d ever do that.

But when DD was one, our routine became disrupted by a friend coming to stay, and DD would no longer settle. The old ways no longer worked, as DD was now mobile and felt trapped in her cot. She wanted to sleep next to me in my bed. I stupidly gave in, so my friend’s stay wouldn’t be disrupted, and it took months of wasted evenings to get DD to settle herself in her cot again.

So, if your baby sleeps through at a young age, I think it’s more down to luck than any technique. And if you’re lucky, don’t feel smug, as what works now might not work at all in six months time.

Baby number 1 = 7 months.

Baby number 2 = 3 years

Twins 8 wks prem, slept through 7hrs on their due date.... fab sleepers.
Ds1 4 months
Dd1 3 months

4.5 years and still waiting. I’m hoping the routine of school will help. She is my only one :)

Eldest - 8 weeks
DC2 & DC4 less than 2 weeks (big babies)

DC3 I think she was ok for the first 6 weeks and then her silent reflux started up and the next 3 years were hell 🤦🏼‍♀️

16 months and 3 years (different dc)

11 months
3 years
14 months