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 :)

But now we need to know exactly what those with early sleepers were doing!! Formula/ own room/ gina ford / etc!

DD1 was ff - slept 12h from 6mo
DS was bf - slept 12h with dreamfeed from 8wks
DD2 is bf and has been sleeping 11-7 most nights from 8wks with the odd 3am waking. She is now 5mo.

Oh and DD1 went into her own room at 3 days old. DS slept in cot in our room until 5mo and DD2 is still in our room.

My dcs (both 12 weeks as mentioned above) were both in our room, just stopped waking for a feed in the night. No sleep training at all and let them find their own routine

typo - I meant 5 and a half weeks, not months...

Introducing a dream feed really helped us as DD would wake at 5am religiously (later solved this by chopping her naps). So in the beg it was 7pm last feed, then wake at 2ish and at 5. To manage our broken nights we did the dream feed so she didn't wake at 2pm. This was at 4 months. Didn't stop waking at 5am until over a year old but in hindsight that was an easy fix, we just didn't know it at the time.

So interesting how siblings can be so different! Shd I be dreading the advent of no 2 in July?

pseudonym maybe I should do an expanded survey once I've totted up the results of this one - asking what sleep training people have used and what feeding method. I sadly suspect it will make absolutely no difference how the child is fed tbh. but would be great to hear what routines etc folk used.

I will tot up numbers tomorrow and post the results at some point anyway :)

DD was about 14 months before she slept through. Moving her to her own room did it.

Helps if I also answer the question doesn't it? 4 - she started sleeping through about a year, when we transferred her to her own room and night weaned (husband went to her at night and let her cry but held her :( . Still found it tough).

Would really like it to be easier this time around but at 3 months she still wakes a lot at night for food...

Happily waiting for the magic answers grin.

ok, have totted up all the responses now! 170 responses, so I guess that's a pretty good number to draw a conclusion from!

1. 0-3 months 27%
2. 3-6 months 14%
3. 6-12 months 17%
4. 12-18 months 9.5%
5. 18-24 months 6.5%
6. 24-36 months 9.5%
7. 36+ months (please state!) 16.5% (ages were 3+, 3-4, 3.4, 3.5, nearly 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4.5, 5, 5.6, 5.9, 6, 7.6, 10, 10, 17)

in other words, 58% of them slept through before a year, the rest of us are doomed...

That's really interesting. I've had two that slept before 12months and one that still doesn't at three. I think that puts me in the doomed category.

And well done for getting it all together. :)

DS only woke once from Day 1 (ie; went to his own room at 7pm - woke for one night feed, straight back to sleep and then woke again around 7am).

From 6 months he went 7pm-7am with no night feed.

Not sure if that is answering your question properly .

It's also interesting the fact the 41% slept through by 6 months when mn folklore would have you believe
a) it isn't possible and
b) if you say they did you are somehow lying.

Ds 10 weeks (midnight to 7am)
Dd 12 weeks 11pm-530 am.

Well I call that through the night.

Ds soley breastfed
Dd mix fed (1 formula feed a day), interesingly it made no difference to how long she went at night if the 1030 feed was formula or breast milk.