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Babies who sleep through the night.. did yours?

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mumatuks · 01/02/2006 15:44

Hi everyone,

I've noticed recently a few threads about babies who are waking in the night. It must be awful, especially when you've gotten used to your sleep.

However Neither of my two have slept through the night! They have both co-slept as they are breast fed, and liked a comforting suckle through the night! We had 4 full nights sleep with DS1 in his first year. I remember them well. DS2 is now 7m and is showing no signs of sleeping through on his own!

I'm not too fussed, it works for us, I'm not wanting a miracle cure or anything, but am I the only one who has babies who have never slept through the night from a very early age? Surely not!?

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Christie · 03/02/2006 15:42

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Mammybadgirl · 03/02/2006 15:53

ha ha ha ha hahahahaha!
Mine slept through 10-6am at 10 days old (please lord don't punish me for bragging)

GDG · 03/02/2006 15:56

All of mine slept through from about day 1!

When I say slept through, they'd go down between 7 and 8pm, wake for feed around 11pm and feed around 3am but go straight back to sleep (so up for max of 1 hr) and then sleep till morning.

None of my friends could believe it and thought I was a jammy cow!

poppiesinaline · 03/02/2006 16:02

Sit still while I kick you all very hard in the shins!!!

Tinker · 03/02/2006 16:25

Oh, don't call waking up for a feed sleeping through, no siree.

EHmum · 04/02/2006 13:58

DS1 only slept through (most nights) from 15 months, but now wakes 2 or 3 times for his potty. DS2 is 6 months and showing no signs of sleeping through - he has 2 feeds and wakes for the day around 5.30am.
What gets me is that you get lots of sympathy with a newborn as people expect you've had sleepless nights, but nobody sympathises as they get a bit older even though you're feeling miserable and knackered a lot of the time! Boo-hoo pass me the tissues

fruitful · 04/02/2006 14:26

Both ours were about 11 months before they started sleeping through (8pm-7am). Up till then, dd was awful (up 3 times a night, much wailing) and ds was bearable (11pm and 4am very quick feeds and back to sleep).

Ds has been sleeping nicely for about a month now (he is 1 next week).

Dd still gets us up at least once a night (she is 3.7).

fruitful · 04/02/2006 14:29

GDG that is not sleeping through! When people ask about sleeping through I always specify what I mean. Its a reasonably early bedtime till about 7am without requiring my attention or waking me up in between!

The official definition is apparently "5 hours". Like, midnight to 5am. Hah!

fruitful · 04/02/2006 14:35

I did all that "no-rocking" stuff with dd. It resulted in much much more screaming. Ds got rocked, he had a dummy, he slept on me, he got anything I could think of in fact. And he is a much better sleeper now, and I got more sleep in the process.

I think babies do what they want. And if their good sleeping coincides with us doing the "right" things, then we get to feel proud of ourselves.

Darn it.

If you pay extra do you get one that sleeps through?

Hulababy · 04/02/2006 14:43

DD slept through, like an angel, from 6 weeks. However it all stopped at about 13/14 weeks. It then took until we did CC at 20 months to get her regularly sleeping through. Even now though, at 3y9m, she still occasionally wakes in the night and calls out for a drink, or comes into our room.

me23 · 04/02/2006 14:45

hi, dd almost 8 months started sleeping through about two weeks ago. I was so happy the sleepless nights really made me depressed because i was so exhasted I couldn't enjoy the day ahead.
thing is shes had a cold this week and has been up virtually all night every night although her cold appears to be better now she still woke up every 10 mins last night. I am worried the sleeping through for those two weeks was just a one off.
I hope she her cold hasn't permanantly messed up her rountine. I got a taste of sleep, can't handle it if she was just teasing me!

Hulababy · 04/02/2006 14:45

Agree with the definition of sleeping through. During those 6-13 weeks we took it to be 10pm till 7/8am minimum.

Now DD is older sleeping through, to us, means DD sleeping from 7.30/8pm (whenever put to bed for bedtime) until about 7am (earlier/later depending on when we have to get her up, or her having a lie in) - so a good 10-12 hours anyway.

charliegirl25 · 04/02/2006 14:47

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kid · 04/02/2006 15:12

DD slept through the night from about 2 1/2 years old, she was exhausting.

DS started off sleeping through the night really well and then he suddenly became really unsettled. I did CC at 13 months for 3 nights and he has more or less slept through the night ever since. He is 3.10 now.

Nemo1977 · 04/02/2006 15:16

ds 2.3yrs and only started sleeping through late last summer. Although he still has at least one night a month where he will wake up at 3am[last night as one].
DD is 7wks and has slept through a couple of times already so am hoping she will be completely different

GDG · 04/02/2006 19:47

Fruitful - OK, just checked their diaries that I keep.

Ds1 - can't find it noted
Ds2 - right through with no wake ups from 7-7.15 by the time he was 5 months (at 3 month entry he was just having dream feed at 11pm)
Ds3 - by 3 months he was going right through

The reason I said they were sleeping from day 1 is that most people I know with babies pace the floor at night trying to get them back to sleep, or the baby wakes umpteen times for feeding. Right from the start all of mine only work for the 2 feeds and I never had any problem putting them back down. I think I've had about 3 nights of pacing the floor and that's between 3 babies.

GDG · 04/02/2006 19:49

charliegirl - I only followed Gina loosely but it seemed to work!

nulnulcat · 04/02/2006 20:12

gina was also my bible except dd didnt read the sleep bit!! occasionally will do the 7 til 730 thing about once a fortnight usually but tends to wake up anything from once a night to once every hour if im really unlucky!! she doesnt actually want anything tho! i just go in to her tell her shush go back to sleep and she does! she sometimes wants a drink its frustrating as i know she is capable of sleeping all night! she goes down between 645 and 7 without a problem she even asks to go to bed and she doesnt want to get up before she wakes up properly at 8 im lucky as i can leave her playing quite happily for at least 30 minutes so nice lie ins!! she has never slept in my bed and i do use cc hoping its just seperation anxiety at the moment and she will start sleeping again!!

blueshoes · 04/02/2006 22:48

GDG, it may be gina, but I suspect not. Count yourself lucky to have good sleepers. Parents don't pace for the sake of pacing ... trust me

lellow · 04/02/2006 23:31

DS is 22 months & still wakes at least 3 times.
I have now given up all hope of ever sleeping all night ever again!!!!!!

jampots · 04/02/2006 23:32

mine were both good too. dd at 6 weeks (fluke at 11 days) and ds at 9 weeks.

Im joining MTS out the door

Elf1981 · 04/02/2006 23:39

DD has been sleeping through since week 8. Even before that we'd put her down in her moses basket around eight, she'd wake at 3 & 5 for a feed. I'd bring her to our bed, breastfeed her and then put her back down.
Now 17 weeks and she usually sleeps from 8:00 to 7:00.

mazzystar · 04/02/2006 23:39

mine hasn't once slept thought he night yet. he's nearly 16 mo. on a good night we'll get a 6 hour stretch.

Elf1981 · 04/02/2006 23:44

I am surprised how many people have a few babies who all sleep through or all dont. I thought that it would be a bit more random.
My mum had three kids.
My older sister would wake every four hours.
From day one I slept eight til eight and my mum used to have to get me up at eight to feed me (I was a bit on the chubby side, so i had enough to keep me going).
My younger sister... well, she's nearly 20 and still doesn't sleep through! Its a common family joke that she didn't sleep til she was five. Of the three regular babysitters mum managed to secure, one is now an alcoholic, the second stopped answering my mums calls and the third hit the gripe water himself in desperation.
I remember one holiday where my mum and dad let me and my sister on the beach (we were about 6 and 10) and they sat in the car in the car park with my sister screaming as they were upsetting the other families! They'd take it in turns, one would stand and watch us while the other suffered with the screaming in the car, then they'd swap over!

yingers74 · 04/02/2006 23:52

My two did, dd1 at about 10 weeks and dd2 about 3 months. DD1 was in my room until about 4.5 months and dd2 is still with me. The only thing I can say is that i followed a bedtime routine, even when it did not work I tried, more because it made me feel like I was in control even when at times it was obvious I was not! i do think it is down to luck though.

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