Do your three month olds sleep through the night (mine doesn't)

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Mine doesn't though she only usually wakes as we take her upstairs with us about 11 and has quick feed then back to sleep and then once in night, though she does think mornign is about 5am alas. But many of my antenatal people's babies sleep through night and wondered whether I am the only parent whose baby doesn't yet.

My 3 month old is usually between 3-5 night wakings, last 2 nights she's only been up twice. Have my fingers firmly crossed that it's the start of better nights and it dosn't all go wrong again when she hits 4months in 10 days time

My 3 month old goes down at about half eight, wakes briefly for a feed at half ten, then sleeps 'til about 3. That's when the fun starts :) She does generally go back to sleep but with lots of thrashing about and squeaking and grunting, with the result that she sleeps but I don't, and she'll usually wake every 45 minutes or so until about 6 when she's up for the day. It could be worse, and if we could just lose the noisy sleep after 3 i'd be delighted

If it helps at all, by about nine months a lot of my friends whose babies were early good sleepers had regressed, and we were all about the same. At 2.4, most of us have had similar periods of good and bad sleep overall.

Remember that at three months the technical definition of 'sleeping through' is five unbroken hours, which isn't what most of us think of sleeping through.

My DS would sleep a 4-5 hour stretch at about 2 months, then 3 month growth spurt hit us and he would wake every hour!

He's 7 months now and has only slept through (12 hours no wake ups!) 2/3 times. Still wakes once a night for a feed. Don't stress out about it, it will happen when it happens!! :)

My DS was more asleep than awake as a baby. Remember he went from about 8pm to 6am from 14 weeks because that's when I went back to work. :) But they've all got different talents, I think, so it doesn't pay to compare. Unlike other babies I knew at the same time, he never mastered crawling, didn't walk early,couldn't string a sentence together until well past age 2 and took an age to potty-train but he was always particularly good at sleeping and wielding a spoon!

"Most people who say their 3 month olds are sleeping through either lying or have an odd definition of "all night"!"

no they are not,d ont be ridiculous

Both mine slept through from 12 weeks ie went to bed before i did, probably having a feed about 10 then waking up at 7 without waking or having another feed

My DS didn't sleep through the night (i.e. from 7pm-7am or thereabouts) until he was 9 months old and that was only after we'd resorted to sleep-training (which only took 3 nights). He was EBF though - bottle-fed babies tend to go through earlier because formula is richer and takes them longer to digest. But every baby is different. I know of kids who don't sleep through until they're two or older.

Read the thread, bruffin and then tell me I'm ridiculous again!

I have read the thread. Every time there is thread like this someone comes along and say mums who say their babies sleep through are "lying". It's not true! Are saying all the women on this thread who said there babies had a dream feed at 10-11 then slept through to 7 are lying?
The norm for a baby sleeping through is 3 months to 6 months, some babies do it even earlier, some are later.
If you are using a definintion of 7-7 then my teenagers have never slept through in their life except when they were ill, but a 8 hour or more stretch can definitely be counted as sleeping through, although as someone said sometimes the scientific definition is 5 hours or 12-5

At 6 weeks, DD1 would scream and be very unsettled from 7-11pm then would sleep through to 6am. From 6 weeks to 11 weeks, the screamimg and unsettled period ended earlier and earlier until at 11 weeks she was sleeping through from 7pm to 7am.

DS would be far less unsettled in the evening so was going to bed at 7pm ish from 8 weeks, but needed a feed in the night (generally at 2am ish) until he was 16 weeks old. Then slept from 7 to 7. Both were breastfed.

I think that an important factor is the size of the baby. Mine were both quite big babies who breastfed well and have continued to sleep well ever since. However, every baby is different. I didn't do anything specific, it just happened when they were ready to do it. I know that the sleepless nights seem to go on forever but, in the grand scheme of things, it is such a short period of time.

If we're talking about any 8 hours in a block, then mine was doing that at 3 months. Since 6 months he's done 8pm-6am with a dreamfeed, but to my mind that isn't sleeping through.