Baby Sleeping through the night? How? When?

[EllaWt]

My 7 week old sleeps in longer stretches during the night ... sometimes 6/7 hours so I was wondering if we should start guiding her towards sleeping through the night or at least guide the stretch toward more sociable hours (currently about 10pm to 4am)

When did your babies sleep through the night? How did you do it?

Was doing 10:30/11pm through to 6/7am at 12 weeks. Dropped the dream feed at four and a half months so has been doing roughly 7-7 since then. Now 8.5 months and never really had a sleep regression (yet!) and I thank my lucky stars every day.

However I didn’t ‘do’ anything, just followed his lead otherwise I would be writing my book and making my fortune 😂

From birth. I had to wake her in the night for feeds, now she's nearly 12 weeks, she goes to bed at 8, feed her before we go to bed (11.30) and she sleeps until 7.30-8. I know it won't always last!!

I think the accepted wisdom is that they aren’t really developed enough for you to “train” them much before 3 months, they just follow their own rhythms and wake when Hungry. Once they are 3 months you can start building positive sleep habits/associations.
(Caveat - I never fancied sleep training of any kind. DD slept through at 2 and a half, but we were mostly only talking about one wake up for a wee for a while before that)

I haven’t slept more than 2 hours since June..

My first miraculously slept through a couple times around 11 months and 2nd (who has always been a great sleeper) a bit around 3-4 months. Otherwise, first didn't consistently sleep through until she was 3.5 and I would say youngest is now pretty good at sleeping and he's nearly 3 (wakes up maybe 2-3 times a week). Hate to say it's a long slog still but you do usually get a bit of a respite between 2-4 months when they sleep a bit longer.

14 months here. It nearly killed me and s a major reason in only having one child.

Ohh I’m jealous! Mine is six weeks and his night time sleep is still all over the place

Mines 13 months and sleeps through maybe once a week. Goes to bed at 7pm, normally wakes at midnight and again about 3.30am. I didn't sleep through myself until I was 3.

DS1&2 are 8 and 4 now, and my four year old still comes through to me every night. DS1 didn't sleep through until 5 years-ish.

They both still get up at VERY EARLY o'clock

Sounda like you have an amazing sleeper! 10pm to 4am is a decent stretch at 7 wks; my baby was still waking up every 2 to 3 h at this point. Keep doing what you're doing! Baby is too young for sleep training at this age.

My dd was 12 weeks when she did 7-7.

Not consistently, but any wake up before 7am i just treated as middle of night, fed her and put her back to sleep.

4 years. Honestly though at 7 wks do not worry about that your putting unrealistic expectations on yourself and baby. and 10-4 is good.

You're not in a bad place, I think we were 8 weeks and about 6 months, which was very fortunate. We used some sleep training for regressions when they were over a year and rode the others out. We only had to sleep train for a max of 4 nights and it improved the quality of life of all of us, don't discount it.

DD was about 13 months when we might weaned her and she started sleeping through.

Having got five children I can tell you it's very little to do with what you do and largely down to the baby/child

DS1 6 months the same day he had food
DD2 7 months (hadn't weaned)
DT 11 weeks
DD5 can't even remember lol 😂

7 weeks? My teething 11 month old woke every 40 minutes last night. I am barely alive. Sleeping from 10-4 would be wonderful right now.

6 months for our son. As others have said it's total pot luck.

@SquigglePigs

DD was about 13 months when we might weaned her and she started sleeping through.

Exactly the same with my DD2. Night weaned and did some gentle controlled crying and she slept through at 13months.

DD1 it was around 10/11 months.

2.5 years.

Just before 9 months- both of them, we finally moved them out of our room!

@notdaddycool what sleep training method did you use ? I'm interested!

@soberfabulous i hear you! This is brutal

@MrFlibblesEyes lucky you!!! Here's hoping

Around 3 months with my 1st. 6 years with my 2nd, it was brutal, but I survived!!

Not until a year old here, when she dropped to one half an hour nap a day and was confidently walking. Some just don’t need as much sleep as others.