so when did your LO start sleeping through the night?

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and how did you do it??

DS was BF until 10 weeks. He started "sleeping through" (from about 8pm to 5pm) at around four months, once being fully formula fed. He still had dreamfeed at 11pm, which one of us did on our way to bed. His sleep pattern improved a little when he started solids too - just got a bit more reliable. We dropped dreamfeed gradually (an ounce less at 11pm each week until 2oz then stopped) at around 9 months and by 10 or 11 months he was sleeping from 7.30pm to 6-7am. This is subject to change when ill or teething of course, but we can generally rely on him to follow that pattern now. Sometimes he even sleeps beyond 7am which is heaven. I've always needed lots of sleep and the first few months of sleep deprivation (and occasional bad night now) were a shock to the system.

Lots of my friends/family say their dcs don't sleep through properly until around age 3, so I count myself lucky!

Sleep trianing? My arse lol. I have to bfeed ds2 to sleep and if i inch away his internal monitor goes off and he is wide awake. Only time he sleeps in hday without me stuck next to him is in car or buggy and that isnt 'sleep training'. All said and done, I am happy and ok with how things are and i know that he is a happy boy so that is what matters. best put in a smug emocion too lol

ha! have just caught up with the last few pages of this thread and feel the need to link to this thread for the reliability of paediatricians to be assessed!!

My DS didn't really nap in the day when he was a wee baby, only started to go for any length of time when he started on solids at 6mo. Even now it is hard to keep him asleep for more than half an hour during the day unless I am asleep with him; and sometimes hard at night.

Controlled crying - HA! I tried leaving him to go to sleep last night; he was virtually asleep when I put him in his cot but instantly woke up and fought his way to his feet. I got so fed up, I left him to it and he cried solidly for 30 mins - when I went up he was standing in his cot still, very cold. He can keep it up for ages.

PAH! Forgot the link!
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both around age 2

except for the last two nights for ds2 - cutting a molar

and when ds1 has a nightmare

i am reading this with ds2 in arms. he is so unsettled tonight. Def think he is waking for a reason.

now, I have had a bit of a breakthrough - those 2 nights when DS wouldn't lie down and go to sleep in his cot, despite being virtually asleep when I put him in - well, both those days he hadn't managed to do a poo. The next day he cleared the backlog and he slept like a top! And went straight back down after his feed as normal. Yay!

Reading posts I realise how bloody lucky we
have been.

DD is now 16 weeks old and slept from 10.30pm to 7am at 4 days old - put her down after feed on the night we got home from hospital and she didn't wake till morning!
HVs don't believe me but it's true. Just sheer luck. She did it next night and the next and so on. Reckon she's woken about 14 nights at silly o'clock since she was born.

We often have to wake her up in the morning (on Sunday she was still asleep at 8.45am, having gone to sleep at 8pm) and she dropped the dreamfeed herself about a week before xmas.(we did have colic from 2 weeks to 14 weeks from 7pm to 9pm though)

It's the one thing putting me off having a second though - no way will another be this easy!!!

9 Wks. In her own cot in her own room by 3 months. She's 4 months old today and just im back at work, ive got to wake her up on a morning to get her ready.
She's a really good sleeper on a night, but she's a nightmare during the day, too nosey to nap and often forces herself to stay awake despite being very grumpy. Think she's actually been asleep with eyes open on a few occasions, which is really freaky!!

Im an older mum (at 34) didnt think I could have kids, but she's such an angel im hoping for more in a couple of yrs. Im with imoscarsmum tho - can you be lucky on the 2nd!!

Sorry to deviate from topic but RIBS - you are back at work at 4 months? I go back in April when DD will be 6.5 months and am dreading it - how has it been?

Btw, DD just like yours in daytime -rarely sleeps for more than 30mins and needs loads of attention as she gets bored easily. Happy to give this, though it makes doing anything else difficult!

We were very lucky and DS slept through from about 4 weeks (from about 11 till 8). I don't think there is a secret as every LO is different.
I think our son just inherited his fathers & my need for lots of sleep ourselves

Imoscarsmum,
I was back at work for odd days after 2 wks, that was after a c-section!! Found the stairs a bit of a bugger. Fortunately have v friendly co-workers to help run around after me. I would have loved a full 6 months off wk with my DD, she's just fabulous and I miss her like mad, but im self employed and need to be in the office. But on the plus side, its nice to have a bit of grown up time too.
TBH I think its done her wonders being with her Dad and her Grandma's and auntie - it can be a bit like pass the parcel, but she loves all the attention, especially seeing her older cousin (who's 7), they adore each other. Many of my friends are full time mums and my dd is the more alert and forward than any of their kids. (competitive mum alert!!!)
When you are away from your baby, it makes the time you are together extra special, I get huge smiles and giggles when I come home.
BTW mine did v well yest, she managed a full hour nap!!!