So when did yours REALLY sleep through?

[moominmama86]

Am feeling very despondent about ds's sleeping and need a bit of encouragement! He's now 6 months and all I seem to hear from everyone around me (hv, mum, strangers in the street) is 'Oh, he should be sleeping through by now' etc, etc... well, he isn't and I can't believe he's the only one! He's still waking to feed twice a night and what makes things worse is there's absolutely NO pattern to it at all. Am really reluctant to do controlled crying but feel as though I am depriving both myself and, more importantly, ds, of decent sleep if I don't.

What age did your ds/dd really sleep through (i.e. 7pm-7am or similar)? And did you sleep train or not? I know I can't be the only one but sometimes it feels that way!

Once any of my kids had slept through the night for about 3/4 days then I wouldn't feed them if they woke up in the night again. This wasn't until they were about 8 weeks though. With two youngest children I had to wake them to feed them because one was low birth weight and one was jaundiced.

My ds began sleeping through at around 4-5 months. He had lots of sleeping problems and I thought it would never get better. We used the Baby Whisperer's "pick-up put-down" method and it worked a treat. He was bfed till 7 months and I used to pick him up around 10.30pm and do a "dreamfeed" (he stayed asleep - I didn't think it would work either, but it did!) I kept this dreamfeed till around 6 months. He now rarely wakes up during the night and if he does puts himself back to sleep within 10 minutes. I only go into him if he is crying hard, which rarely happens.

I never got a full nights sleep until my ds was 2years old.

Oh dear maybe it's late but I would hate to think that if I missed a meal (pigs would probably fly ) that it would be assumed that I wouldn't ever want to eat at that time again . Not getting at you Pinkfluff I know it is sometimes hard to put what you mean in words, I am just generally anti all these routines and you have just told me about another one that I don't particularly like the sound of.

Well, there's probably enough responses here to do a survey, but I'll add my little bit too! We thought we'd got it made with my daughter who started going 10 hour stretches by around 8 weeks and then a 12 hour stint by 3 months. But around the 6 month time it all just changed and now she varies quite a bit each night which I do find frustrating as I never know what time to go to bed myself! What I remember finding infuriating though is that the 'sleeping through' is treated like a holy grail, i.e. if you've done it it's like that forever but it isn't. It all can change in the blink of a tiny eyelid...