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 🙏

Just turned 2.

Nope. He never has. From the beginning he wanted to be held to sleep. As I EBF, it was all on me, so I was exhausted. I decided to co-sleep. No regrets. I can escape for a few hours but he will wake eventually and find me gone and cry for me.

I do believe all children are different so I don't think it's easy for all to simply just 'cry it out'. My DH was apparently the same with sleeping alone. He didn't sleep alone until he was a preteen!

Mine does, she didn't sleep through until 15 months but once she stopped bf to sleep she has slept through ever since!
My 7 year old slept all night on her own from 10 months.
That's gone down hill for the last or so and she creeps into our bed in the middle of the night now 🤣

Another one still breastfeeding but with a toddler sleeping on their own. I night weaned DD at 10 months and DS just recently at 6 months. DS is still breastfed to sleep, and DD is still breastfed as part of her evening routine at 34 months. Breastfeeding doesn't have to mean kids won't sleep independently

No it doesn't but night weaning isn't recommended by lactation consultants until 18 months.

I assume this is because they think it affects supply but it seems a bit OTT.

I mean, if your child naturally sleeps through before 18 months - hardly unusual - I doubt they advise you to wake them up.

In any case, my supply is just fine.

@Flittingaboutagain can you please provide a source for your claim? Which lactation consultants believe this? And what evidence base study forms the foundation of any recommended age limit? What even are 'lactation consultants'?

I'm the biggest advocate of breastfeeding, and have no intention of stopping for either of my children until they are ready, regardless of their age, but your claims about night weaning are ridiculous.

My 2 year old sleeps through the night 99.99999% of the time - but we cosleep.

The current arrangement is he falls asleep in our bed with me (or sometimes my husband) at 18:30-19:00, then we leave him up there with a monitor (the bed is fully proofed against him falling off the edge) whilst we spend the evening together downstairs. Then we usually come up to bed around 23:00/midnight.

Whilst he's upstairs alone, he very, very rarely wakes up. So I suppose if we moved him into another bed, he'd definitely stay asleep for the first half of the night. I'd guess he'd sleep through the whole night ~75% of the time. But I really cba to try it and find out as the current arrangement means I get a full nights' sleep 99% of the time so I'm quite happy as things are

Yeo. Both of mine slept on their own in their own bedrooms from very small. Never slept with my children. They always loved their own beds, and their own space. They did come for an odd cuddle, after a bad dream for example, but always went back to their own bed after a bit of reassurance.

No, they moved at two and a half or so, but in the same room.

Yes. DS has slept in his own bed and through the night since just over 1 years old.
We moved him to his own room around 8 months old (and he used to wake 1-2 times a night so it wasn't automatic).

But something after 1 just clicked and he loves his night sleep.

In contrast he's always been a terrible napper especially as a baby. I would spend hours clocking up miles walking him in the buggy, trying to get him down.

And was up SO many times a night as a baby.

Yes. Has done since 6 months when he moved into his own room.

He slept through from 7 weeks in his snuzpod but we kept him in our room as per the guidance.

Never sleep trained.

Yes, since 6 months when moved into own room

No. 2 years + 7m

Yes
Since 8 weeks in a next to me
Moved into his own room at 4.5m
Never slept in our bed at night.

No idea why, no reason for sleeping well, no sleep training, just random.
Absolutely not complaining just being honest.

No, my 2 year old has always been a horrible sleeper. Used to wake between 6 and 12 times a night until 16 months. Now he wakes roughly 3 times a night as long as I come sleep with him.
His first wake is usually between 11 and 1 which is when I go sleep with him in his bed. He has a full size bed for this reason. We don't want him in our bed and hopefully, slowly he will need me less and less.

Mine did from about 4 months. Only ever sleep together if on holiday or in a hotel, or if there is a bad storm 🙈

Yes they do unless poorly

No - Mine did from around 2 years 10 months after using a gentle sleep consultant

Yeh mine sleeps through. He was unwell last night so we brought him in to our bed but omg it was brutal, he tossed and turned, chatted, generally caused a ruckas 😅never again😅

Yes, they've both slept on their own all night from 6 months. They don't always go through the night but are always settled in their own beds, never brought into ours

Well you have assumed incorrectly. I breastfed both of my girls to 12 months. Still in their own rooms from 7 months & in own beds. One is now 2.5 and one is 8, never slept in bed with them ever.

Mine did from 6 months, there's no right or wrong though as long as it works for the family

Yes.
Mine are all adults now, but they all slept on their own in their own bedrooms from very small.
I never slept with my children. If ever they woke in the night, unwell or with a nightmare, they still went back to their own bed after a bit of reassurance.