Does your 2 year old sleep through yet?

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My DS is 2 and he wakes constantly calling out for me. He’s never really slept through. He doesn’t have a dummy anymore. Some nights are better than others. Is this the case for many others?

No, both of mine have slept through since their 1st birthday albeit with patches of waking here and there. What’s his routine like?

Mine has slept through since probably 14/15 months. We had a particularly horrendous patch from 10-12 months and paid a sleep consultant and since then he’s been pretty good.

Yes, very normal. Neither of mine slept through regularly until about 3.5. My youngest still woke maybe twice a week until he was probably 6.

No, we did sleep training at 6 months.
If he’s got a snotty cold he might wake up once or twice. My 5 year occasionally wakes up once in the night too.
For both 2 year old and 5 year old it is every now and then, definitely not every night and not continually unless they’re actually ill.

How does he go to sleep? If he is used to you being there when he falls asleep then this is the problem as he’s expecting you to be there.

2.5 years and has never slept through. I’ve read it varies and some children won’t sleep through until up to 4 years

2.5 years, and has slept through 3 times since birth.
Totally normal.

DS has never been a good sleeper and at nearly 5 he still wakes in the night a few times a week. We had a block of time after he cut his last molars when he was about 3 where he slept through for a few weeks but seems it was just a phase.

2 yrs was the first time, and slowly got better from there

My DD is two years and nine months and doesn’t sleep through. She usually wakes once or twice and does settle back down easily but I’m really hoping three is going to be a turning point.

DD is nearly 3. At just two, she probably slept through 4 nights a week. Now it’s more like 6 nights of sleeping though, with one night where she wakes.

My 2 year old is absolute hell at night. Considering sleep training, just deciding which method and waiting until no colds or teething.

Mine slept through from around 8-12 weeks depending on the child

My 4.5 still wakes every night.

Mine is almost two and wakes some nights but not others. Sometimes just crying out but sometimes standing up. DP and I take it in turns to do settles, just lay back down, stroke hair and leave. I find my toddler very easy to settle and so the wakes don't bother me.

If we get a night with lots of wakes before midnight, I assume illness or teething, give Calpol. If we get a split night, we assume too much day time sleep and either shorten the nap or make bedtime 15-20 minutes later until the split nights stop.

My 5 year old doesn’t sleep through yet

Both of mine are older now but they were sleeping through from about a year old. They were still sleeping in our room, in their own beds, so if they woke up they'd see us and go back to sleep on their own without waking us up.

No DS was 2 in Jan and he still wakes at least once. He goes back to sleep within minutes so I don't really mind and i know he'll sleep through eventually. We've had 2 nights in his entire life where he slept through and both times I thought maybe he'd instantly cracked it randomly but nope, just a fluke 😂

Totally normal. My first and third didn’t sleep through the night until they started school…!

(number 2 slept through from about 18 months).

i didn’t do anything differently; it was just how they were wired!

Same as @user3424- 2 was a bit of a turning point for us. I think it’s well within the realms of normal.

My kids were opposites at this age
Ds1 woke regularly in the night until age 1 and mostly slept through after that, other than the odd phase/blip.
Ds2 however slept through from 6 weeks until he was 1 then didn’t sleep through again til he was about 3. He still came in my bed during the night most nights until he was around 6.

this too shall pass

My 3.5 year old has only slept through the night once in her life. Totally normal! Some kids sleep and some don't unfortunately!

My 2.5 year old is highly active. People comment all the time. How do I cope etc? But the upshot of that he has slept through from around 14months and still naps everyday for at least 2 hours. A lot of placid little toddlers that look like they're giving their Mums an easy life by just sitting there and not moving much are actually harder work in the longrun because they are simply not tired enough to sleep. I always have that in mind when people are feeling "sorry" for me that I have to chase ds up and down the park before he escapes, and I have to harness him up if we are ever go out anywhere. Perhaps what looks like "good" behaviour to the general public is the reason some toddlers are just not good sleepers. Tiring them out is key, and if they are not naturally active then it needs to be encouraged.

My 4 year old has only just started consistently and we still have the occasional wake up. Solidarity OP

My bottle fed son slept through from 6 months, my daughter slept through from 20 months when I stopped breastfeeding, before that she had never slept through. We are pretty big on having a consistent night routine and supporting them to learn to sleep independently. We found black out curtains and white noise helped both kids very much when they were smaller.

Mine slept through from about 12weeks. Not sure it’s anything we did other than set a routine. I do think it’s just luck of the draw. We hit a bit of a regression around the 12month mark but it settled back down after a few weeks.