Sleeping through the night

[Peaplant20]

Did anyone’s babies just start naturally sleeping through the night on their own? By which I mean babies who didn’t sleep well and then did start sleeping well, not the babies who just always slept through the night!

My LO slept fairly well before the 4 month regression and now it’s awful but I keep reading old mumsnet threads and everyone’s babies only seemed to improve once they did sleep training or co-sleeping, neither of which I want to do.

If I just persevere with bedtime routine, feeding baby or rocking baby to sleep at night, feeding when she wakes at night (all things that I do now), do I have no hope of her sleeping through the night any time soon?

I've heard of peoples babies doing this not sure how common it is though.

What is the sleep like now?

Sometimes my DD does stretches of 5 hours - a long way off where we used to be and I haven't changed anything. It's just naturally happened and she's 10 months.

Hopefully it will get better and over time she will sleep through (we hope)

Yes and no.
Ds is 18 months. He was up every 1-2 hrs until about 10months.
He does now usually go 8.30pm-6am is without waking. Some days he wakes at 5am and joins in our bed, last night he came in at midnight

DS was sleeping 6 hour stretches virtually from birth. He stopped sleeping through once he hit 4 months though. Since then he’s been an OK sleeper having 1-3 feeds per night, but there were a couple of rough weeks around the 6 month mark when he was waking all the time and I had to take him to bed with me because he refused to sleep in his cot.

All babies will sleep through eventually but it can take up to 18 months.

My 7 month old was doing 6 hour stretches until 4 month regression but is now up every hour nearly. They are all different, my first was terrible right from newborn stage and only improved once stopping breastfeeding at 18 months

My daughters sleep went to pot at 4 months and never recovered (I’m posted a few times about her sleep) she was TERRIBLE. Up pretty much every hour between 3.5 and 9months, often up for hours overnight. My husband and I slept in shifts for months, considered sleep training but ultimately couldn’t make myself do it. Things got better at about 9 months she started sleeping until 5am, then by 10 months was doing 12 hours straight. She’s such a good sleeper now at 12 months that I often have to wake her at 8am or she would sleep the day away. Still has 2 very decent naps too. We’re very lucky at the minute but I know it could all change again so I try not to get to smug about it!

Mine started sleeping through on their own at 2 years and 3 years (almost to the day). We didn’t sleep train as we decided it was least stressful for us to just go with it and we learned to live with the sleep deprivation.

Mine started sleeping through at around 10 months (they have both been back and forward since then, but most nights) - didn’t co sleep or sleep train, just watched tv/ read with them dozing in one of our arms in the evenings until they were asleep, and fed them when they woke up in the night (and maybe some more snuggles while I read my kindle if they didn't go to sleep after that!). But I did have a year of mat leave with both of them so the days were quite relaxed - not sure I would have been so patient with it if I also had to work. You do not have to sleep train if you don’t want to - most babies will get there eventually.

Yes, we have never sleep trained (despite being sorely tempted in the past!) and our just turned 2 year old is starting to sleep through a few times a week. Gradually, her wakings have become less frequent and now when she wakes, its often just once and she settles back. It got noticeably better at about 9m and then again around 12 and 18.
Between 4-8 months, both of my babies have been terrible sleepers. I am currently cosleeping with my 8m old as it really is easier for me as it means I am not getting up for both children.

I think I actually started a thread with a similar theme about a year ago as I was so concerned that without sleep training, my terrible sleeper would always be terrible!

Yes! My daughter was a terrible sleeper until about 10 months, often waking every 45 mins to an hour during the night. She briefly improved at 8 months, then had a blip and then from 10 months she started sleeping through the night unless she's ill. We were ready to start sleep training as I wasn't coping at all with the sleep deprivation and felr like I couldn't go on but just as we were going to start, she naturally improved on her own. The only different thing I did do was practice putting her down awake which was a total game changer (we used to rock her to sleep in the rocking chair and then transfer her). The first few times I tried it I ran straight back in when she started grizzling but once I tried leaving her a bit longer, I was amazed to see her self settle.
We never had the 4 month regression as it was awful at that stage anyway!

Mine both started sleeping through the night at 3 years, nearly on the dot.