What's your definition of " sleeping through"

[Middlesexmummy]

Hi , just as the post title says.... I am always wondering as my 14 month old sleeps from 7 - 7 but had at least 2 short wake ups
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7-7 without wake-ups requiring parental attention. It's the holy grail of parenting and experienced only once in a blue moon so that you know what you are missing in my experience

I would say going the whole night without waking up and needing either a feed or to be settled. I would count self settling as sleeping through.

As an adult I rarely sleep the whole night without waking - albeit usually very briefly. The fact that some babies can sleep 12 hours straight without waking amazes me.

My 16 week old DD has never sleep through and has woken 2 hourly (with the odd 4 hour stretch) since birth. At least she's consistent though. I'll be bloody astonished if she ever goes the whole night!

Sleeping through = sleeping from when you put them to bed until an acceptable time of the morning and not needing any attention during this time.

However I don't think it's any kind of thing to aim for. I'm blissfully happy when they get to the stage of sleeping from the time I go to bed until 5 or 6am and coming in for a cuddle until a more reasonable time to get up. Before then I co slept so wake ups didn't really bother me anyway.

Interesting - I count sleeping through as 8 ish straight hours ie missing a feed. My son was a four hourly feed routine kind of angel, and would wake for a feed at 10pm, 2am and 6am. At 8 weeks he stopped waking for the 2am feed, so I classed this as sleeping through.

I promise this isn't a stealth boast! I'm genuinely interested indifferent people's definitions, particularly with things like sleeping, feeding and potty training, as we tend to use these to compare!

12 hours straight without waking. In my 30some years I have yet to achieve this, needless to say DC haven't either.

A friend used to count her DC as sleeping through from 3 or 4 weeks old because he would wake only for feeds (2 hourly, as one would expect) and then go back down with no fuss.

Sleeping at least 8 hours without needing attention. And I've just realised that my 7mo slept about 8pm-5am before waking for a feed last night (although she was wide awake, bouncing and shouting, for an hour before going back to sleep again), so I guess that counts

I'd say 'allowing me to get a good 7 - 8 hours uninterrupted sleep', so, my dc3 never slept before about 11 at night for her first couple of years, but it was still a "good night's sleep" in my book, because she would then sleep through until we had to get up for work.
12 hours seems over-ambitious - don't think any of mine did that until they were teens

Hi
Thanks for your replies so far , she can go 7-3 without waking but at 3 she ll cry and at 5 , either cos she s hungry or teething ..... I have a way to go then if its no parental involvement

I'd say bedtime till morning with no intervention required from me. DS regularly shouts out in the night, but I only go in if he's crying properly. A sleepy shout doesn't count!

I would say bedtime till morning without any wake ups/need for a parent.

My 18 month old now sleeps 7pm till 6am and she never cries out for us in the night. She has only been reliably doing this since about 15 months. I didn't night wean till 13 months though so before then she still fed in the night.

12 hours straight with no wake ups. DD has done this since 8 weeks, albeit with the help of a dream feed from DP at 11pm - she didn't wake though, we just fed her anyway. Who knows, she may not have needed it!