Does your 2-2.5 yr old sleep on their own all night?

[Orangepen13]

Just trying to figure out the norm. By on their own I mean: in their own bed without a parent present. Please answer yes if 80% or more of the time they do.

TIA 🙏

Assuming most of these posters haven't breastfed for very long otherwise it's a right old faff putting baby in their own room so young.

Yes mine did, but they moved from my bedroom to a bedroom with their sisters so none of them ever slept in a room all on their own. So that may have made it easier for them to stay all night.

Yes DS was and still is to some extent a poor sleeper but he sleeps in his own bed in his own room and has done since he was about 9/10 months old.

At 2-2.5 all of the kids in his antenatal group bar one were the same.

Mine are grown but yes they've always slept alone and routine was always bath, story, cuddle, lights out and I'm outta there!

Mine is 2.5 and I'd say sleeps through in her own bed 2 or 3 nights a week out of 7. The rest of the time she will wake in the middle of the night and only settle back in our bed.

Sometimes - for us it’s been completely child dependent!

DC1 was (is!) a sleep nightmare. She was in our bed for years and now she has a double bed and yells for someone to join her most nights (and she’s almost 6). At 2.5 she had just settled down from waking multiple times a night to joining us in bed mid-way through the night and going back to sleep.

DC2 is not quite 2.5 yet and he has slept through the night by himself on and off since 9 months. It tends to go to pot when he’s unwell or if we are away but his default position has mostly been to sleep, undisturbed, all night. The number of times I would feel compelled to check he was still alive in the night because he hadn’t woken up! I couldn’t believe that a baby could do that after my first one had been SO bad.

My kids are very tactile and like to touch, poke, stroke, hug all the time. They’ve always wanted to be cuddled to sleep and touching a parent. DC1 wanted that to continue all night, DC2 can happily self settle through the night by himself - again the books will tell you not to create sleep associations because it will trash their sleep but that didn’t play out consistently between our kids!

2 year old twins

And nope never 😂

I am still breastfeeding my 4 year old but I night weaned him well before 2

Probably about 50:50 at the moment. She either goes through til 6am ish then comes in for a cuddle (which I don't count as we get up at 6.30 anyway) or she wakes about 3am. Sometimes I can get her to settle back in her bed then but often it's obvious she isn't going to so I just bring her in with us.

DS1 did - every time we attempted to have him in the bed he was too energetic. He had horrific split nights and we just had to stay up with him. Luckily from about 18 months he slept through (until about 5am when, again, taking him into bed didn't help!). Cracked the early starts with a gro clock when he was 3.

DS1 was such a light sleeper that we found he was better when we moved him into his own room at about 10 months. Although definitely more of a faff in terms of feeding.

Neither of mine did at this age and I clearly remember feeling like it will never end.
It does, by God it tough when you're in the middle of it. ❤️

My 2 year old has been sleeping through since she was about 8 months old. The only time we would have one of us sleep in her bed with her would be if she's sick other than that she sleeps alone.

Yes, from about 14 mo I throw him in bed and forget about him until 7ish the next morning. 2.5 now.

We've also had every single sleep regression going, but they never last more than a couple of weeks

Yes, mine was in his room on his own from 5 months

Nope. My now 4 year old has never slept on her own. We’ve always co - slept. She’s a great sleeper & we have a super king size bed so plenty of room. Ds is 12 months old and sleeps in a cot attached to the bed next to me😁
Dd has her own room, she will want to sleep in it eventually, probably once she starts school.

3.5 year old always has, stopped waking and needing a cuddle in the night around 1.5. Younger one is nearly 1.5 and still up for a bottle in the night. I’ve never taken either of them into my bed though, it’s just not something I wanted to start

Oh behave, they’re talking about 2.5 year old, not month.

What 😂 op is talking about a 2.5 YEAR old, not weeks old.

I bf Dd till she was 3.5. I still night weaned at 18 months.

DC1 is 4. Apart from a short spell of sharing the spare bed with his dad after DC2 arrived, he's always slept in his own cot/bed. I always swore I'd never do that, but then DC2 came along! She's 2, and starts every night in her cot, however frequently ends up in our bed from around 4am onwards. It's the only way to get her (and therefore myself) back to sleep.

I breastfed all of mine for between a year and 2.5 years. They were night weaned between 3 and 12 months.

Yes, he always has slept in his own cot without adults since we moved him to his own room at 5 months. He started sleeping through the night around 7 or 8 months.

Yes - since 6 months in own room. Night weaned at 1 year. Rarely had to go in since then in the night. Never taken out of huis room if wakes up so guess don't expect it. Have stayed with him though and slept on his floor on the odd occasions when ill etc

All 3 of mine did.

The “slowest” to sleep a long nighttime stretch did so at 3 months.

Mine is 2y2m and he generally falls asleep in his own bed between 7 and 7:30 once he’s had his story and a cuddle and we don’t see him again then until about 7:45-8 the next morning! He’s always been a great sleeper, with a few minor bumps along the way of course. We never co-slept, and he’s been in his own room since about 6/7 months.