Do your babies sleep through

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Trying to prove a point to DH. We have our first baby who has never slept through in his whole 5 nearly 6 months of life. He’s currently sleeping worse than ever so I’m very tired as he only wants mummy despite daddy trying to settle him

after another bad night, DH turns to me and says “I wish he’d sleep for you” I say “he’s a baby” and then he says “don’t babies sleep through at this age?”

I don’t have any babies in my family and my friends don’t so it’s the first baby in my life but I know for a fact babies don’t all sleep through at this age! It’s the first baby in his life too but someone in his work made a comment about their babies all sleeping through by 4 months (bollocks I say) so then he asked me that question

SO - do your babies sleep through? What age are they?

(also if you have any tips regarding our baby waking up for settling hourly I will take them😩)

Mine was always a great sleeper but at that age would wake for a feed in the night

Its normal

I have 8 and they’ve all slept through quite early, tbh I think by 5 months they were sleeping 7-5, so waking early for a feed then going back to sleep til around 8.

I think some babies are just good sleepers, I didn't do anything special with mine, some I co slept with through choice and some were in their own room by 6 months so I think it can be luck of the draw.

mine has for the most part slept through from around 9 months. From 6-9 months was horrendous. He would wake up every hour🤦🏻‍♀️Then would cat nap during the day so no time for me to catch up. Then suddenly one day he started sleeping for 1/2 hours and overnight🥳

From about 7 months DD slept through, 7-7. I thought I'd hit the jackpot!! Then they day she turned ten months it all went to pot and I'm bloody exhausted again.

Slept through since 6 months, I believe down to the following changes that were all made at that point:

• Switched to formula
• Started solids
• Moved to big cot in own room for all naps and night sleep (had been cosleeping)

I'm 40 and I don't sleep through 😂

Eldest slept through at 12 months when she dropped to one nap, but only till 4am regardless of bedtime. Finally slept till 5.30am around 18-20 months when she dropped naps completely. Naps were only ever half an hour at a time but clearly she had her own ideas about sleep!

DH was very much like yours OP with our first. By the time DD2 arrived 2.9 years later he just accepted that we breed non sleeping crap nappers.

All our friends have children, yet the only baby I’ve heard of sleeping through by 6mo was my nephew. He’s off the centile charts huge and eats like a horse, don’t know if that has an impact…

My DS is 18 months old and has never slept through the night, not even close. I’ve learnt to just roll with it…

I was so sleep deprived I couldn’t tell you if it was just before or after his second birthday he slept through once then not again for about another year.

Mine did at that age; my sister's didn't. All breastfed. We used the same sleeping and feeding guide so it was obviously up to the baby!

My 20mo DS has never slept through, not even close.
My 4yo DS sleeps through half the time. Otherwise he has nightmares or comes in for a cuddle halfway through.
You might end up with a unicorn though!

Yes. Around 14 months!!! Only another year to go!!!

My DS is 15 mo and still doesn't sleep through

Mine slept through till she was 4 months abs then was terrible for a few months. After 6 months it got a bit better, the odd night of sleeping through but mainly waking 1 or 2 times. Sometimes up for hours. She's 20 months now snd has been sleeping through for about a month due 2nd soon so I'll have to hope they're not toooo bad either.

They're all so different and believe me it's perfectly normal for a 6 month old to wake up multiple times in the night..... I'm late 20s and still wake up in the night!

Certainly not at 5 months. In fact 4-6 months was the absolute pits with her sleep.

She does now though at 9 months. But every night I go to bed thinking this will be the night where it all goes to shit again. I've read there is a mega regression between 8 and 10 months sooo watch this space 🙄

DS slept through from 6 weeks. No amount of noise would wake him. He's 40 now and still sleeps through everything. Just lucky I guess. I didn't sleep train or do anything special.

Oh but of my 2 friends babies that are the same age (well a bit older) one still doesnt sleep through and one has slept through since 5 weeks! Total luck of the draw.

Mine finally slept through at 2 years old once I grew the bollocks to night wean and get rid of the dummy!

Look up sleep training! (And there are loads of methods, so don’t be put off by hardcore “extinction” cry-it-out methods, although they work well for some families). We did Ferber with our kids, and they slept through at 7 months (DC1), 6 months (DC2) and 5 months (DC3).

As a cultural aside, I find it odd how resistant so many parents in the UK are to helping their babies learn to sleep. With most of the people I know in Canada, France, and the US, it’s pretty much the expectation that parents will do some form of sleep training between 4-6 months. The idea of a 9-month-old (or 1-year-old????) not sleeping through is pretty baffling. That’s not to say there won’t be bad night (even a couple a week is normal), but to NEVER have the kids sleeping through is kind of crazy. I’m not sure how people function that way!

All 4 of mine did by the age of 2(!) to 16 weeks.

Youngest 3 were humongous at birth. One of them only did 11pm-6am the rest were doing 10 hour stretches.

Wouldn't have been 4 DC had they been more "normal" babies and not slept well at night.

Mine slept through since he was a week old.
I take absolutely no credit for it, there was nothing we did to achieve this.

On the flip side, he does NOT nap during the day. Maybe I'll get half an hour if I'm lucky. I find that tough. I have no time to do anything in the day.

My first slept through at 2.5 years. 2nd 3.5yrs.

I’m not an expert and they’re all different but I don’t think a five month old should be waking hourly. They go through phases of course but I think generally you m should be getting at least a good couple of chunks of sleep even if he is up once or twice.

and don’t fall into the trap of it always being you to settle him. Leave the house if you need to.

I class my little one as 'sleeping through' because she wakes at 12:30 then 6:15 😂. Although she's just nearing that lovely 4 month phase where for the last 3 nights it's gone to 12:30,2:30,4:30 and 6 😂. Maybe that's why I class the other nights as 'sleeping through' haha

Sorry I completely misread your OP 🤦‍♀️ Don’t know where I got hourly waking from.

totally normal not to sleep through!