What age did your toddler start consistently sleeping through?

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I’m exhausted.

We’ve had all sorts of sleeping habits since my son was born, from trying to gently sleep train for a few days to co sleeping all night.

What we have settled into is letting him fall asleep in my arms in our bed and moving him to his cot, where he’ll sleep until either 10, 12, or 4 depending on the night or sometimes sleep through until 6 (this has happened a handful of times) When he wakes he comes in with us.

I can’t imagine that I want to do any sleep training so I’m curious for those who let things happen more naturally, what age did your toddlers finally start sleeping through in their own beds on a regular basis?

Just after he turned 2....and he literally never woke again, turned into a fabulous sleeper. It's so hard but it will get better. Things improved drastically around 18m. I did pick up put down with my other dc at 5m to by get rid of soother as it was more a hindrance than a help.. It sorted things quick enough but I still regret it. After the fact you'll be glad you went the route you have.

Age 5...

I only started to enforce the go to bed and stay in bed from around 4 before that it was the path of least resistance but we all got sleep and shes great

8 months ish for all 4. #3 was a bit trickier than the rest so maybe more like 10 months. We didn't do much sleep training with any of them but they were all close together so had to wait at times when put down for me to deal with the older ones. Seemed to set them on a good path.

Thanks all. I should add he’s 14 months!

DS1 is 3 and only in the last few months has he slept through the night. He didn’t disturb us when he woke, we would just wake up with him in our bed.
DS2 was a delight and has slept through from 6pm-7am from about 5 months. He’s 20 months now.

That was a really tricky time for me. I night weaned at that point which just meant 4AM was morning.... He'd go back at 6 of course, just as DC1 was getting up. Around the 18m then I offered a beaker if water and he took that for a few nights and then just didn't. Around that time I also moved him after maybe a 10pm feed into cot.. Never thought it would work but it helped a lot.

About 18 months but then it all got cocked up at 2.5 when in the space of 6 months we ditched the dummy, moved him into a big bed, moved house, had a baby, started a new nursery. 🤦

Mostly sorted now but I'd say we'd have one night a fortnight when I have to go in for a few minutes and resettle him

Some time between 2 or 3 years old. Then we decided to have another!

Around 2. She's nearly 3 now and sometimes wakes up once in the night, and has the occasional night where its a few times. But I'd say from 2 she slept 10 hours straight about 85% of the time. We didn't do any sleep training.

7-10 months with some gentle sleep training.

First child slept through from 6weeks old. She's 4 now and not a little sleep angel anymore. She's having bad dreams quite a bit so waking up crying in the night. She also sneaks in to our bed most nights 🙈 She doesn't go to bed on her own, we take her into our bed to go to sleep and carry her through once asleep. We've tried to get her to go bed on her own and she did once or twice but mainly she just won't go to sleep. I'd say unless u still want to be putting ur child to sleep in ur bed then start asap as then they don't know how to fall asleep without u there.

Second child, well she's 17 months and she's only really now starting to sleep through more regularly. She's maybe sleeping through a few times a week and the others wakes once or twice comes in with me for a cuddle for 5 mins and back to sleep.

Previously (few weeks ago) she was maybe sleeping through once a week, a bad night up for a few hrs once a week and the rest of the time up a couple of times for a wee cuddle and bk to sleep.

She thankfully goes to bed awake and gets put down in her cot and just goes to sleep, same with naps.

18 months for my first. My second is 2. 5 years and still waking....i sleep with him as he goes back to sleep quicker that way. He is on the spectrum though so maybe not useful to compare with sleep habits of neurotypical kids.

We might weaned at 15 months and he gradually started sleeping through more often from then. He was sleeping through about 95% of the time (barring a ‘proper’ reason to wake up like illness, teeth etc) from 18months.

5 years old for the first one, and about 2 for the others.

Didn't as a toddler, it wasn't until he was two and a half.

First one from 10 weeks. Nothing we did! Second was still up a few times a night at 7 months so we sleep trained and he’s done 12 hours a night ever since. I’m a far better parents when I’ve slept!

I have a toddler and he started sleeping through at age 2.5. It was quite sudden! I remember around 14 months it was hell, hang on in there.

For DD1 it was around 3 but at 5 it all went out of whack again when she started school and it hasn’t ever settled back down 😩. We did gentle sleep training with her from around 6months but found all
It would take was a cold or staying at granny’s etc to put us back to square 1. DS2 is not a great sleeper either and this time we’ve just let him do what he needs to do (he’s asleep on the sofa next to me at the mo). The ‘ah bollocks let them do what they want’ approach feels a bit less stressful than sleep training and if this approach doesn’t work either at least we haven’t put any wasted effort in this time 😬

4.5 to sleep through consistently. 5.5 before same child went to sleep independently (as in - not needing me or DH to sit with her until she fell asleep). I'm due dd2 shortly. There will be sleep training for her for sure

First was 3.5 years, second was 15 months, third is 2.3 years and sleeps through maybe 3-4 nights a week.