so when did your LO start sleeping through the night?

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and how did you do it??

Not yet at nearly 17 months, she's getting 4 molars and a bottom tooth now though so that's disturbing her. She slept through for about 3 weeks when she was 3 months but never did it again. How old is your LO?

6.5 months

there are no tricks - DS just stopped needing to eat food in the night

7 weeks, 6 months, 3 weeks, 7ish days.

No idea but I did used to wake mine during the day for feeds and never gave them dream feeds just but them to bed at 7pm and left them to wake as & when.

They were all overdue, healthy, large birth weight babies though which I think is a factor.

4 years.......

dont know how, think i went unconcious from utter dogged exhaustion and didnt get up to him for a couple of nights...kind of involuntary CC!

3 years. both of them. whatever i did, do the opposite.

Well, dd1 is 9 now and we're pretty much there with her. This sleeping through the night stuff is a great big con. Do you sleep right through the night, every night?

4 months.

Stopped feeding her in the night. When she woke, one of us stayed with her and got her back to sleep whichever way possible (without a feed). This took several hours the first night. Less than an hour second night. DD slept through the third night.

Almost 5 years old, after she had started school.

DS1 - 6 months - Controlled Crying (after 6 months of no respite from him exH and I could cope no more).

DS2 - 3 weeks, I put him in his moses basket (in itself a miracle as DS1 refused to sleep on his own from birth) after his bottle and woke up at about 5am in a panic - rushed to the end of my bed to check him and found him doing tiny baby snores while trying to catch flies

DS3 - occasionally from about 7 months, regularly from about 10 months (again no tricks).

Dd1 - 6 weeks
Dd2 - 3 weeks
Dd3 - 10 months

Did nothing with any of them ...

Do you mean sleep through as in going a reasonable amount of time without wanting a feed? If so,
DD1 was 10 weeks old when she went from about 11pm to about 6am.
The DTs didn't do this until about 17 weeks.

DD1 has slept well since, barring teeth and illnesses keeping her awake. The DTs aren't great sleepers, they wake quite a lot for unknown reasons but are easy to re-settle and sleep a lot later than dd1 who is an early riser.

When I said mine were sleeping through I meant 7 til 7, they only ever woke once between 7 & 7 before that. It is some compensation for having 10lb babies I guess.

dd1 3 ish
dd2 3 ish
gecko probabvly three ish

It must be somethin I'm doing worng

dd1 - 2.5
dd2 - 3 ish

About 7 months after doing CC, but it didn't last long.

Every time there was an upset such as illness, going away, having visitors etc, then I had to do CC again each time. It got harder and harder and eventually I gave up because it was stressing everyone way, way, more than co sleeping and night feeding ever did.

So we went back to co sleeping and nightfeeding, ds is 3 now and doesn't sleep all night, but I expect he will once he self weans.

DS1 - 10 weeks
DS2 - 12 weeks
DS3 - 14 weeks

(hmm - I am guessing that if I had a DC4 it would be 16 weeks )

Stuck to routine as far as feed times are concerned (suited me, doesn't suit all) Fed all three at 6.30pm, bed at 7pm, woke them at 11pm for a feed. Eventually dropped the 11pm feed........

12 weeks, no idea what made him suddenly start though. It was the week we were due to go abroad so I thought it would never last if we unsettled him but it did.

DTD1 and DTD2 at 12 months, as soon as I switched from milk to water at their night feed as I thought they were probably waking due to thirst rather than hunger - it was very hot where we used to live.

10 weeks, just happened when i introduced a dream feed. even before that from being 3 days old, he'd go to bed at 9pm ish, wake at 2am for a feed, then go straight back to sleep til 7ish. he was just a good sleeper i think. made up for it by never napping very well though, still a pain in the bum to get to nap now at 16 months!

12 weeks, but we put her to bed late, around 10pm. She then slept through til 6/7. Gradually reduced bedtime to 7.30 over a period of 6 months. She wakes after we do, around 7. She sleeps well and always has done and I think that is down to luck (and lots of praying during pregnancy)

dd(2.2) isn't yet! Especially not last night as she was throwing up all night!

DD - 17 months, when I was hospitilised for 3 weeks with unborn DS (nearly prem) - the trick was I wasn't there, so she stopped waking for boob.

DS - slept for 5 hours at a stretch within the first few days of birth , but we co-slept, so he had boob access til he was three years old. Didn't really notice if he was sleeping through, or whether he woke for a quick snack....

Btw, neither of mine have EVER slept 7-7.

dd1 is 2y10m and doesnt sleep through. dd2 is 7 months and doesnt sleep through.

sleeping through, whatever that means, is grossly overrated. just accept that until they are 10 or so you will have to get up in the night sometimes, and go with it. Accepting it has changed my life for the better

having said that, dd1 was atrocious, up all night for hours, nothing worked, and now she goes to bed more or less on her own, wakes up between 1 and 4 and comes to our bed by herself, we dont even wake up. for me, that is excellent progress and seems to be completely within the norm of her peers.

so things will get better. as my dh says- every bad night is one less bad night you'll have to go through

Sorry to say 3.5yrs & 2yrs!

at 14 weeks he did 10pm to 7am. I did a night feed once or twice and then decided if he was actually completely asleep for it then it was pointless so the next night I left him to it and he did 7pm to 5am ish. By 5 months he slept 8pm to 8am.