when did your child sleep through the night reliably? (highly unscientific survey)

[Kveta]

By sleep through, I mean a reliable 10 hour stretch, so 7-5, 8-6 or thereabouts.

1. 0-3 months
2. 3-6 months
3. 6-12 months
4. 12-18 months
5. 18-24 months
6. 24-36 months
7. 36+ months (please state!)
8. HA HA HA HA HA what is this sleep of which you speak?

just curious, after being told by family that DS is clearly very delayed and DH and I are shite parents, as all babies should sleep through between 3 and 6 months. And then speaking to other parents who had 'good babies' who slept through early.

We are currently somewhere between 6. and 8. on the above list (he's 29 months and up several times a night most nights)

thanks :)

6-12 months x 2

2 in the 12 to 18 month bracket. DD at 14 mnths; DS at 16 mnths

12-18 months for a bit.

Then stopped then 24-36 months but with the occasional waking for random reasons.

DD is 3 months and showing every sign of following in her big brother's footsteps

my sister has a nightmare sleeper now after 3 very good sleepers

she states if she'd have had her last dd first, she would definitely be an only child

one of the reasons that I have 1 child

Ds1 (6) - around 2-3 months, has always been a good sleeper

Ds2 (3) - only just :(. Still quite a bad sleeper and goes to sleep late (went through a phase of 10-11pm recently, now anywhere between 9-10pm typically. He also tends to wake up with the light so had been ok recently but this week it has slipped to half six in the morning as his average wake time so I really need to sort out some better curtains for the landing window and stop this in it's tracks!...

DS started to sleep through reliably at about 12 months, but has never been a 12 hrs sleep sort of child.

DD at about 8 months, she did 8-8.

DS was reliable from 5 months corrected age (so 8 actual) when he was still tiny and bf had a blip at 10 months for a couple of months and relaible ever since

I put it down to training in SCBU as he is always easy to settle even if he is sick

DD1 Category 1 -I didn't do anything - she was putting on weight a lightening speed so had no need to wake her iyswim. BF so at times was agony.
DD2 Category 6 Did exactly as I did with DD1 - was a shock to the system to still be up twice a night at 9 months I can tell you!

Treated them the same just different children - Ignore your family op

DCs 1 and 2, around 8 weeks. DC 3 is 14 weeks and does 11 hours about 50% of the time and 1 feed about 45% of the time. (remaining 5% is entirely random wakings, not through hunger which means even if I feed her she'll stay awake...Grr.)

DS - about 6 weeks old. Pretty much as soon as he went into his own room. 7pm until 7am. Lucky eh.

he must have the sleepy gene from me - I could sleep 12 hours of each day if I were left to do so.....

DS was 3 before he'd go to sleep alone and 4 and a half before he stopped getting up at some point in the night and climbing into bed with me (though he didn't wake me up to do it, lol)

DD slept through from 4 weeks and never came in my bed and had her own room at 18 months

All of my three were sleeping through by the time they were 3 months (DS1 from 7 weeks), and apart from a brief burst of midnight rambling by DD2 when she was 2 (which was firmly dealt with!!), they have remained great sleepers.

I know it's just luck, but I can't help being at some of the night-time shenanigans some people go through.

DS 7.5 months
DD 13 months
But by this I mean not fed back to sleep and self settling at night, I'm still up with both usually every other night or so for water, nightmares or something or other, but frankly that's bliss compared to the up every 1-2 hours!!

dd is 7mo and so far has not had one single night of doing at least a 5 hour stretch...I don't stress about it now, I figure she'll get it one day. I don't like the idea of "sleep training" my mum was a softie on me and my siblings and were doing super!

Slept through reliably from 5.5 months.

Until 13 months, and has been erratic since then. Will have a couple oh months of waking once a night, will then sleep 14 hours a night for a few months, then back to waking. Now 22 months and waking once a night 3 or 4 times a week.

it's heartening to see others have had issues, and also to see that some babies do just sleep by themselves! got my fingers crossed for DC2, but suspect we'll have a similar experience to Iggly if our DSs are anything to go by!!

we had to stop using gro-bags for DS when he started cruising round furniture (so at about 6 months, grr, just after I'd bought the next size up as well!) because he would pull himself up in his cot, then walk around in the gro-bag, which meant he normally ended up stuck bent double and howling. it was comical, but also slightly tragic! had to take side off his cot at 2 years too, as being constrained by it led to screaming fits.

If DC2 is like this, I will just dessicate from all the weeping I'll be doing.

Kveta (Iggly here, have name changed as a couple of posters with similar names), I really hope you don't have the same experience with me with DC2....! three months in and I'm looking for a refund although DD is so adorable I let her off every morning.

Dc1 was 4

Dc2 6, bthough at 9 occasionally hops into my bed during night when he wakes.

18 months - still reverts to hopeless when away from home but the last 3 months, have been pretty good! FINALLY!

About 10 months here (prays it doesn't all go to pot again...)

What amazes me is that people who have 3+ DCs who all slept 7-7 from 2 weeks old actually hang out on the sleep forum LOL!

he did his first 7-7 STTN at 3 months, & we reliably got 10hrs from around 5-6months onwards, but then got stuck with EW for 12 months after that!!! We've only got brilliant sleep of 11.5hrs every night for the last couple of months & he's 18.5m now.

Both at 4-5 months.

Dc1 was 2.5' dc2 is approaching 2 and still wakes between one and a trillion times a night.

DD - 7 weeks
DS1 - 4 and a half years
DS2 - 18 months

We were really lucky that we randomly got given a good sleeper as our first child because it meant when DC2 was terrible we didn't beat ourselves up over it.