When did your baby start sleeping through the night?

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Google says about 6-9 months old, but as a mom-to-be I'd rather read real stories and experiences.

What I mean by sleeping through the night is, when was the first 8 hour sleep you were able to get?

Reason I'm asking is, that will mark the time I can resume my previous exercise regimen, as sleep is an important part of recovery

TIA

Slept through for a couple of weeks just after his first birthday which unfortunately didn't happen again til he turned 2 and it's still not reliable 🙄

2 years old

Twin A was about 6 months old when he started, had a period when teething that he slept really badly, but then is now sleeping through the night again. Occasionally he wakes up, but mostly not.

Twin B still doesn't sleep through the night here at 11 months 🥴

Nearly 3 years. It normal for a child to sometimes need you during the night up to the age of 7 years old.

As a newborn, DC had a very reliable 5/4/2/2 pattern at night, which meant that once I'd learned how to do night feeds only 60% awake, I got a pretty decent sleep each night. More disruption on and off from 4-9 months and then after night weaning they slept pretty reliably 7-7. We then had a few short bouts of sleep disruption (usually waking at 11pm and/or 4am) at odd times e.g. at about 18 months due to separation anxiety and again just after we moved from a cot to a bed, but they were a couple of weeks each until normal service resumed.

To be honest, I found the later disruptions much harder to take than the first 9 months. I think once you get your sleep back it's much harder to lose it again!

As PP said, luck of the draw to an extent (my NCT group of 8 varied from 10 weeks to over 2 years to get sleeping through established).

Errrrrr DS2 is 23 months and hasn't done an 8 hour stretch yet. He did 7 hours the other night for the first time ever which was quite nice, from 10 until 5. Has not repeated this, sadly.

I can't remember with DS1. I do remember he went into a nice pattern of waking once at about 11pm and then sleeping through to the early morning, though I doubt it was 8 hours. Going by my old notes I think this was about 18 months old, but I couldn't be sure.

Only occasionally before age 4!

With DD: 4 weeks for 8 hours, 4 months for 12 hours with a dream feed, 6 months for 12 hours without the feed.

There’s no normal though, from friends I’ve known everything from as soon as they’d gained enough weight to stop waking for feeds and still not sleeping through well into the toddler years. It’s luck of the draw really!

My first was around 12 weeks, second was about 16 weeks but she seemed to go through every possible sleep regression. Now expecting number 3 and I'm pretty sure I won't be as lucky this time round.

I have no idea who these "average" babies are, who supposedly sleep through at 6-9 months :o :o :o :o

I suppose perhaps it's like the "average" wage - just because it's £35k doesn't mean most people earn around that. Some are on more like £10k and some are on a million! Helpful - not.

Not yet and we are almost 11 months in but getting closer as regularly get 6-7 unbroken hours which is lovely. We have a long way to get to 7-7 though!

1st starting sleeping through at 2yo. 2nd slept through from 10m-22m. For the last 3 months shes been a nightmare again

Hasn't happened at 15 months. We occasionally get a 7-8 hour stretch these days but I can only take advantage if I go to bed at 7pm. Some nights she's up and down like a yo-yo. Last night she only woke once, but then came into bed with us and starfished so effectively I had to sleep in a ball in the corner.

Dd1 2 years
Dd2 10 weeks

It's totally random in my opinion. Older one still doesn't sleep well.

20 months 😂

Mine did 6-6 at 5 months

First was 7 weeks, and that lasted (give or take an hour or two) until about 16w then the 4m sleep regression (which basically resets how babies sleep) kicked in, and it took her till nearly 3 to get back there.

Second is 16m, at birth she woke 2-4hrly, now she still usually wakes up 1-4 times a night with intervals from a 1-8 hours (but usually 2-4). Where it is only 1 or 2 wake ups, one usually ends up being for between 1-3 hours. It's a marathon not a sprint, and certainly I found the sleep disruptions harder when they get a bit older, as you aren't on maternity leave, and because often they aren't actually much better sleepers (if at all) than when first born, but are more knackering in the day.

2 years.. But still not reliable at 3.I don't believe in average babies. He stopped night feeds at 6 months he just woke.

Reliably every night from a week before he was a year old.

First slept 8 hours at 16 weeks and then occasionally til 6 months when it all went seriously downhill lol

Oh wow, it's so different for everyone! I guess I'll have to adjust to her unique sleep pattern this was super helpful as I thought it wouldn't exceed 9 months! Now I know what to expect

First 8 hour sleep was at 3 months, from about 4 months it was consistently 7-7 or 8-8

Fastest child to sleep eight hours consistently (at least 4 nights in 7) was about 1 and a half years.

Slowest to get there was about 6 and a half years, but now sleeps consistently every night for about ten hours unless sick or something very odd happens (age 8).

For exercise you will need to find activities that work around it. So many things change and you'll find a pattern that works for you and DC.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news OP but just because a baby sleeps through the night once, or even consistently for a whole week it doesn't mean they will keep it up.

Our DD slept through every now and again from 4 months but it was impossible to predict when she would do it. Well apart from it was never at the weekend.

My second born has done a minimum of 8 hours straight since four weeks old, from six weeks it’s been at least 9-10 hours every single night, sometimes 11 hours straight. He’s only three months though and I do know it can change. My first had some very good stretches early on but didn’t stop needing a milk in the night until 11 months. We also had some horrendous times around sickness where we’d be up every half an hour through the night.