When did your newborn start sleeping longer?

[lillyg23]

From other peoples experiences, when did your newborn start doing longer than 2-3 hour stints in the night?

Getting extremely exhausted over here 😅

About 2 years!
I remember telling doctors at around 8mo that that Ds still woke every 45mins all night and they said it was normal..!

Ds is almost 4 years now. I’m still waiting for him to sleep though. He usually now sleeps 8.30-12/1am, then either joins us in our bed until morning, or if we attempt resettling in his bed he will wake 1-2 times more. He wake 6.30am

Unfortunately some just don’t sleep. Ds didn’t nap either

After an awful first month of virtually no sleep for baby or us (feeding issues) we had a massive improvement at around 10 weeks - he actually slept through the whole night without waking three nights in a row. Thought we'd cracked this baby sleep business. Oh how naive we were - the 4 month regression hit us hard and lasted from 3.5 - 6 mths. That did nearly break me at times - nights of waking every 20mins etc. But from 6 months onwards has been a good sleeper overall (now just turned 4).

Round about six weeks. From four weeks, intermittently. I rubbed her back once instead of feeding her, and she dropped back off.

2-3 hours sounds about average? I know we were lucky.

At 7 weeks we got some longer stretches of sleep, then at 8 weeks a short night such as 11-5.30 ish. Then 12 hours at 12 weeks, this pattern was identical for all three of my differently fed babies.

Eldest 4 hourly night feeds. Daughter slept through at 10 days. God I panicked when i woke at 4 am and she hadn't woken me.

The H.V told me to set alarm for 6 pm so if she hadn't woke I could feed her. My daughter was a dream baby and loved her sleep.

3rd one 4 hourly and 4th the same. Mine were 3 x born in the 80s and 1 in the 90s.

They advocated 4 hourly feeding them. Generally worked with mine

As for more sleep. My eldest was a good sleeper. Slept through at 3 months. My daughter a dream as I said above.

My 3rd and 4th uh I never believed in co sleeping until I had my 3rd and needed sleep more than my principles of no co sleeping.

Around 7 months, but would be easy to settle from I think 6 weeks usually it'd just be a case of wake every 1-3 hours for breastfeed, hold for a bit to avoid reflux and put down nicely so wasn't too bad