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.

My daughter was ebf and she got into a routine of sleep at 7, wake for a feed at 2.30am, wake for another feed at 5-6am, then slept till 9 and that was from 8 weeks to 14 months. She stopped waking for feeds then. I just got used to going to bed at 10 and getting up at 6.
She’s 3 now and sleeps through 7-9 except days when she has pre school and has to be woken up early. Not sure how she’ll cope next year when she starts primary 😂
Op I found the wonder weeks app very helpful. If my daughter was restless, I’d check the app and sure enough there’d be a growth spurt going on.

We moved our son into his own room at 8 weeks and started getting longer stretches. 4 month sleep regression hit hard 😴 I would say by age 1 he was fully able to sleep right through from 7 till 7.

There were times in the early days DS would sleep a solid 6 hour stretch... then didn't for a long long time but started around 6 weeks.. ended around 12? At a year I moved him back in with me and he mostly slept all night on and off. Then at 19months moved back to his room and has slept ever since but sometimes wakes and comes through and climbs into bed. Do what works for you and your baby and remember to enjoy a nap during the day if you can.

DD gradually started sleeping for longer stretches from about 1 month to 4 months. Then slept through 12 hours without waking for one night and then the 4 month sleep regression hit, I gave up and started cosleeping and she was waking every 1-2 hours to breastfeed until she was over 1 year. Didn’t get her out of my bed until she was 5! And she still doesn’t want to sleep in her own room at 6!!

DS was doing 4 hour stretches at birth. I thought finally a baby who sleeps. Then his sleep got progressively worst until 4 months where he started waking up every 45mins-2 hours to breastfeed.

Started sleep training him 2 weeks ago and so far so good. I can now put him down wide awake on his own in his cot in a dark room with just white noise (no dummy etc.) and he will fall asleep by himself with no crying or no more than 5 mins of crying and most importantly put himself back to sleep when he wakes after a 45 mins sleep cycle. Last night he did 4 hours - feed - 3 hours - feed - 3 hours then got woken by my alarm, which is a big improvement for us.

What worked:

• First, I went to sleep in the other room and left husband to do first feed of expressed milk (he sleeps more deeply than me)
• Moved back in after a week but put loud white noise on so I don’t wake at DS’s every shuffle (turns out he’s not always waking from hunger and can put himself back to sleep without my intervention)
• Put him on a nap and feeding schedule
• Put him down to sleep in his cot when he was tired but fully awake (I.e. I hadn’t done anything to make him drowsy like feeding or rocking)
• Let him cry for up to 20 mins without going in to check on him

I think there are things you can do from 1 month to set good sleeping habits (obviously not cry it out at that young).

These links helped me:
www.tribecapediatrics.com/a-z-baby-childcare/#/sleep (Go to “Sleep” topic)

www.babysleeptrainer.com/how-many-naps-do-toddlers-need/

9 weeks.

When she started school 😢

16 months

Thanks @serial those links make for interesting reads.

Two and a half. Nightweaned and he slept through.

This is the biggest study of childhood sleep. Most babies are no longer waking at 6m. Mine were doing 7 hours by 10-12 weeks. Both breast fed. Hang in there, there is often a change around 6 weeks.

My little boy is 20 weeks and has slept through since he was 9 weeks old! 8pm -6am I know we are very lucky it just happened one night with zero input from us and has done every night since . Longer sleep when they are little is absolutely possible OP

By 3 months was doing a 5 hour stretch consistently, by 4 months only had one night feed between 7-6 which continued until 9m when I night weaned. Now sleeps 7-6 with no wake ups or a very quick one