Any breastfed babies sleeping through yet?

[Fuscialuscia]

I have a 1 year old baby still breastfeeding alongside 3 meals and loads of snacks and still
Waking throughout the night for feeds. We’ve had a few periods of really good sleeping but it’s really inconsistent and always thrown off by teething and leaps. I won’t sleep train, I’m happy for things to run their course and curious to know if anyone else in a similar position has a baby who’s sleeping through yet?

Yes but we did have to sleep train. Was a week of hell but worth it for my sanity.

I’m not BFing anymore but I might weaned at 7.5m before trying to switch to FF and within 3 nights he was almost sleeping through.

Currently pregnant and will be night weaning as soon as 4m sleep regression passes so maybe 5.5 months.

Should have said in PP, there was no sleep training just offer water or dummy instead of breast. Only breastfed downstairs so there was no association anymore.

15 months nope LOL x

Do they not get really upset when you offer water instead though? I always wonder if it just wakes them up too much and then I don’t know how I’d settle DS if not offering breast..

Same thoughts as I had, I was prepped for an awful night but no, he was fine I gave water twice first night iirc and then it tapered off to nothing within a few nights.

A little cuddle and a dummy was all really.

11 months, still fed at least twice overnight. Tried dh giving him water instead and it just involves him upset for 1-2 hrs with dh rocking him, no sleep, etc. If I just feed him it’s a 5 min feed and straight back to sleep. I think he’s still hungry, plus he’s now teething 4 teeth at once

Agree with other parent offering water. It’s not instant but it works.
We sleep trained with the gradual retreat method which is gentle and no-cry. It worked amazingly.

DS 16 months feeds more than ever at night but I'm out at work all day now so hardly surprising. I'm not going to night wean. My sister BF both of hers until they naturally wean (one not yet) one slept through from 13 months and her 2.5 year old still isn't - I think it's about sleeping habits not milk or BF. The one that slept is 7 now and they often wake in the night now and up really early. Children just vary their patterns.

My 9 month old is exclusive breast fed and on 3 meals a day and wakes at around 4 or 5 for a feed. She used to sleep through but has dramatically reduced her milk feeds through the day. I’ve tried upping the feeds again to see if she goes back to sleeping through but it hasn’t worked. Baby sleep is a complete mystery ha ha!

Mine sleeps through most nights at 4 months, and has done so pretty reliably since about 10 weeks. I have absolutely no idea why though - I think I just got really lucky with a baby who is naturally a good sleeper. It seems like a lot of it is really luck of the draw.

My breastfed DS slept through from 7 weeks old but younger DS was around 12 months when he slept through. Apparently I had very rich, fatty milk - they were both 98th centile!

Ha ha. 21 months and no sign. On two nights she has not had boob but she woke up a few times but was happy with Das rocking her sleep. Her ff older sister was the same, she stopped needing milk over night at 13 months and didn’t starting sleep until some where between 2 to 3 years and even then its not a definite thing and she is nearly 5.

Nearly! Although nearly 6, and hasn't been breastfed for four years.

*Dad

Thank you so much everyone! It’s so nice to have your understanding and shared experience. Can I ask- are your partners ever able to soothe your DC at night? I find mine is just so attached to me and my boobs it’s impossible for him to get a look in.

Dh can soothe Ds at night. But usually he then just wakes an hour later again. Ie normal night for us is around 8pm bed, 12am wake and feed, 4am wake and feed. 7/7.30 morning. If dh tries to settle at say 4am, he can, but then baby will wake again at 5am as wasn’t fed, instead of sleeping through from 4am until morning. If he’s super hungry though it’s just me ate dh tries to settle him for an hour until I give up and feed

My 17 month old who is still bf has slept from 7pm to 5.30am since 10 months when we sleep trained. He wakes at 5.30am starving though and feeds a lot during the day. We never offered water, just sent my dh in to settle for a couple of nights.

@Kate3150

15 months nope LOL x

Same!! Probably doesn't help that she is still in our room.

Every night I go to sleep wondering if this will be THE night that she sleeps right the way through....I'm still waiting for that elusive night!! Lol

Dd and ds were bf and slept through from 9-10 weeks respectively.

Mine were breastfeed and slept through the night from a young age. I think what influenced this

Big birthweights
Gallons of milk
Didn't let them fall asleep feeding (woke them up and put down awake)
Woke them in the day to fit feeds in
Used pick up put down when they were very young to reassure them it was ok to be awake in their crib/cot.

Not much help when they are so much older already but I do think doing all those things helped. Night feeds were quick feed and back in the crib/cot - I am not a night person

Same as a few other pp, stopped night feeds at 9 months, he was up every 2 hrs since birth, after a few nights of offering water, patting and rocking he now slept through. It's now 50/50 if he'll sleep through or wake once at 4am and take 2 hours to get back to sleep.

My older daughter didn't sleep through until about 18 months old. We started offering milk in a cup (which she was used to during the day) and gradually watered it down. She wasn't happy about it but it worked.

My younger daughter slept through at 10 months when I started sending my husband in to rock her instead of feeding her back to sleep. However she is now 12 months and back to waking up loads - sleep regression i think, and transitioning to 1 nap. She gets really upset if I send DH instead so we have parked that for now

My DS is 18 months and slept through from 16 months, he went from waking every 3 hours to just suddenly once a night for a couple of nights to just sleeping through!
He occasionally wakes up once in the night now but feels like I get a lovely amount of sleep still.
I never sleep trained as as soon as I put him down he cries so he's still fed or rocked to sleep.
My DH started rocking him to sleep in the night to try and stop as many nighttime feeds so I'm not sure if that's what helped or it may be that we bought him a pillow and he's comfier now.

@Fuscialuscia

Thank you so much everyone! It’s so nice to have your understanding and shared experience. Can I ask- are your partners ever able to soothe your DC at night? I find mine is just so attached to me and my boobs it’s impossible for him to get a look in.

DH always goes to DD (21 months) and gets into bed with her from her first wake up. He is now normally able to settle her back down to sleep for the first or even a few subsequent wakes but it gets to a point when she want me and/or boob. It’s taken lot of perseverance to get to this stage.