At what age did your baby start to sleep Longer?

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I am struggling with the lack of sleep during the night. Baby is only 1 month so its to be expected but its hard going. Just wondering when other peoples babies started sleeping a little longer at night time? Obviously all babies are different.

17 months.

My oldest was about 18 months, youngest about 3 months. It varies a lot!

My dd (20 months) started sleeping longer stretches 2-3 hours) by about 3 months, until she hit the four months sleep regression. Then from 4 to about 15 months, she would wake 4-7 times a night. I stopped breastfeeding at 15 months and the second night afterwards, she slept through and mostly has since. Basically, she never really got over that sleep regression for at least 9 months. That was killer.

15 months.

6 months started to get one 4 hr block of sleep some nights. Currently 2 years 8 months and wakes up 2 - 4 times a night. It's hard but you do adapt to the sleep deprivation to an extent, it will get better OP.

3 ...years ! Sorry

It changes constantly, so we were up more during growth spurts, when learning to roll over, walk and other new skills, during teething, when naptimes needed adjusting etc. Somewhat of a routine emerged at 3-4 months. Sometimes the lack of sleep and constant feeding seemed almost pointless but soon it became evident that they were fighting off a virus or got a new tooth and then things would settle again. Sleeping through at age 3.

About 12/13 months to sleep straight through. It varies so much though, some babies do 7-7 when they're a few months old and others, as PPs have already said, can take longer. Just try to see it as a developmental milestone like walking and talking and not, like I did, as something that you can control. To a large extent, nothing you can do will make your baby sleep through the night if they're not ready. Take care of yourself, the sleepless nights are really, really hard but I promise they don't last forever!

By 6 months was usually two feeds a night, sleeping 6.30pm - 6.30am in between feeds. Eventually slept a full night at 12 months when she started walking and dropped to one nap, however she since then has woken up at 5am regardless of what time she goes to bed.

Bottle fed, not that it makes much of a difference, and a terrible napper. Hates daytime sleep with a passion but is angelic at bedtime so swings and roundabouts I guess.

They’re all different. It’s a shame; an instruction manual would be useful.

As PPs have said, it seems to vary hugely. DD seemed to sleep much better when we moved her into her own room at 6 months, and pretty much soon after that she started sleeping from 7pm to 7am.

At around two months he started sleeping 10-4ish, and that extended so by three months he was sleeping 10-6ish. We were very lucky. It varies so much though, it gets better then worse again over and over. When we started weaning he stopped sleeping through for a couple of months - that was a killer after getting used to a full night's sleep!

Many congrats OP, I know how tired you must be feeling, I had many days that I felt like a zombie, I found sleep improved at around 8 months with each of my two.

How we coped was, I would go to bed very early in the evening, while DH had baby, then we he came to bed, around midnight, I got up to baby (EBF). It worked for us. But it’s hard as you don’t get an evening together, but it’s only for a short period of time, and sleep is precious!

But it does get easier, they grow so fast. I would do it all again if I could it’s an amazing journey. I hope you have some good quality sleep soon.

Ah man I hopped on this thread hoping for some good news after being up with 5m old 4 times last night then up for the day at 6.
Never mind haha

7 months to do 12 hours with a dream feed. 8 months to do 12 hours without one.

Wow it really does vary alot. The wishful thinking in me hoped there would be a bunch of responses saying 2 or 3 months lol. Althiugh I probably knew that wasn't the case.

Guess I'll learn to adapt to the interrupted sleep and in the meantime i can hope I am one of the lucky ones whose baby learns to sleep for longer sooner than later.

Slept through at 8 weeks. Then went every single sleep regression/development leap/clock change going. I don't think I slept a full night from 8 months - 17 months and the last clock change took about 2 weeks for us to get near to a sensory wake up time.

He would wake every 1-2 hours until he was 2 😳 (bottle fed as it seems people think they’re magic sleepers, my son never got that memo 😭)

He’s still hit and miss at 3, but at least if he wakes now, it’s only once or twice 🙏

Woke every 2 hours until we started night weaning at 7 months, and started to sleep all night from 8 months (thanks to night weaning, I reckon!)

It's not always worst case scenario OP. All kids are different. My first slept for 4 hours at a week old (probably would have been longer if I didn't wake him due to being worried).

He slept through the night at 8 weeks and is to this day a great sleeper at 2 years. No real sleep regressions either.

By 3 months mine was sleeping 10-5, it was bliss. Then the 4 month regression hit and she didn’t sleep for longer than 2 hours for about 6 months. She’s only just started fairly consistently sleeping though the night at 22 months...

4 years, and the second at about 3 months IF he was in my bed

@mondray you are my favourite person right now lol

I'm the person everyone hates. Mine slept 11-6 from 6 weeks. She HATED bf and was not gaining weight. The second I switched to formula, she slept. I was somewhere between devastated she hated me and my milk and so, so relieved. Up to that point, she didn't sleep for longer than 2 hours at a time and I was broken. By 4 months she was doing 6.30-6.30.

10 weeks with dad (10/11-8 am)
7 weeks with dd same times

By 10 months both slept 6.pm to 8 am

Ds never woke during night after 10 weeks
Dd woke 1 or 2 nights every couple of months

Very lucky me!

Ds not dad!