Babies who sleep through the night.. did yours?

[mumatuks]

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!?

Hi i was wondering if any one is having or had the same problem as me my daughter is 13 mionths old she is still in our rm as my partner thinks it will be better till she sleeps throw the night she has excma so the doc said we sould only bath her 2 a week cos she will lose the moisture in her skin the midwife said give har water instead of milk but she still wakes up for that she wakes about 3/4 times anight am so tired someone please help ,smile,

Mine both did very early on, first few months, then stopped. I haven't slept well in months now, last night dd2 was awake from 1 - 3.30.

Elf1981

It is interesting isn't it? Both of mine have been good sleepers almost from the start. I was dreading them taking after dh who is an insomniac! Fortunately they have taken after me, really long and heavy sleepers!

On the one or two occasions when I have been up in the night with them I could barely cope. dh had to come and take over... I need my sleep and don't take kindly to being woken - even when it is a baby!

Yes, all my friends were waiting for me to get 'real' babies after ds1 slept so well but with no. 2 and no. 3 they just kept sleeping! Noone could believe it!

oh my god she keeps waking even for water what can i do?

Hi BabyDL, is your dd's eczema causing her to wake up? Does she go back down quickly after the water?

Sorry I am not much help because my dd was waking up like a jack-in-the-box at that age due to teething and needing the comfort of nursing.

Perhaps if you could start a new thread you might get more responses.

thanx first time

I'm quite upset at the number of good sleepers there are. I always thought it was normal for babaies not to sleep well at night. mmmm maybe my expectations affected reality.

Anyway ds never slept the night until about 11 months old

newborn - 0-3 months - fairly normal (or so I thought) - Fed 10/11pm then again 2-3 times before 7/8am, then the day started again

3-7 months - absolute hell - woke 4-6 times between 10pm and 7am - some of the wake-ups lasted 1-2 hours, others only 1/2 an hour. feeding, rocking, walking, patting co-sleeping - none of it really helped consistently.

7-9 months- better only 1-2 wake ups and generally went back to sleep quickly, bliss compared to the previous 3 months.

9-10 months - had another really bad month

11 months - 1 day before his 11 month birthday he slept 7pm - 5am with no wake-ups. I was very worried lol. didn't do it again for a while but gradually things improved.

Now at 15 months he sleeps 6.30/7pm - 5/6am about 3-4 times a week. He generally only wakes when not well but sometimes just wakes.

Hi Tipex

We did do a few things at about 6 months old that may have accounted for the better sleeping after that. I got so tired and what was worse so was he, he really wasn't happy during the day and that was just making the whole thing an absolute nightmare.

I stopped co-sleeping as I thought this was making it worse and I worked on a better and more consistent day sleep routine for him with an ultra early bedtime (around 5.30pm some days - but he was much younger then). I thought he had got so over-tired that this was making him wakeup more. tbh it was real pain as it restricted me a lot, ds rarely slept as well while out or in pushchair or car so we had to be home twice a day for naps. This routine bit was all new to me - someone who is really not a routine person.
Anyway he did improve for a while- not sure if what we did helped.

We also went to see a cranial osteopath from about 9 months onwards when his sleep went downhill again. We went about 5 times over a month and his sleeping seemed to get even worse. I thought it was a waste of money . However when we had the last session, the guy said well I've now done all I can anything else is a habit he's got into. Anyway - 2 days later without me doing anything (I was steeling myself to start cc as was desperate) he slept his first night through. Go figure.