What do you class as 'sleeping through the night'

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Often read about babies/toddlers/children 'sleeping through' but wondering peoples opinions. To me this means something like 7 til 7 or 8 til 6. Something along those lines. What do you think?

7-7 ideally, 7-5 I'd take. I believe "sleep experts" would claim my dd sleeps through as she will do 6 hours in one stretch.

When mine were babies, we treated 10pm to 6am as sleeping through.

7-7.

I used to dreamfeed dd at 11pm (she would sleep 7-11 feed then go through til 7am) and I never called that sleeping through.

I counted about 10pm till 5am as sleeping through as that was what I needed to feel vaguely human!

To me 'sleeping through' is when the drop the middle of the night feed so rather than every four hours you'd get 8 hours straight.

7.30/8 - 6.30

My ds is 2 and a shit sleeper. I have redefined "sleeping through" to make myself feel better as not waking between midnight and 5am. Anything goes outside those hours

Baby to bed in evening (7-8ish) and no need to go in again till morning (6ish).
So no need to dream feed when we go to bed or need to go and settle because she stirs during the evening.

About 5 uninterrupted hours.

same as sillymillyb - when dc3 actually went from midnight to 5am from the off, I was stunned. I considered that a very good night's sleep.

I'd say 'sleeping through' means that I didn't have to get up.

I've never had one that sleeps 12 hours overnight, before they became teens, anyhow.

I'd say >6 uninterrupted hours that include ones where you would normally be asleep. So with mine it meant midnight to 6am. With one parent doing the late night feed and the other the early morning one we both have a chance of a good nights sleep.

Depends on the age of the DC in question. 0-6/7/8/9 months I'd count sleeping through from 12-6 for newborns then 12-8.

From 7/8 months mine dropped the midnight feed so after that I'd count 8-8 as sleeping through. Although dd was more like 6-7 and DS was 10-8.

We did controlled crying with dd one night. She always slept through after that.

With DS I think I probably dream fed without realising but didn't get up during the night from 7 months. (Co- slept)

11pm dream feed-7am.

Never put mine to bed before 11pm as babies so they would doze with us in living room. If we went to bed at 11pm and didn't have to wake until morning that's sleeping through to me

I'm with sillymilly. When they're little - getting midnight-5.

Now they're bigger, 7-6

I class it as bedtime-morning. So 8-6 or something like that.

Bedtime to morning, so roughly 7pm to 7am. Took dd 6 months to do this but then was consistent. I never did dream feeds.

Dd is asleep for 7.30/8pm and I class sleeping through if I don't have to go to her again until morning which is normally between 5 and half 6. She's 15 months though.

agree with bedtime to morning, although DS2 is 9 months, and sleeps from whenever he falls asleep during a feed in the evening (9ish) to when he first fidgets in the morning for a feed 6ish) and because that means I get a full night I'd count that as sleeping through.

DS1 finally sleeps 7:30 till 6:30 - and that's definitely sleeping though... took a good 21/2 years to get there though!

Bedtime until morning.

bedtime till morning. so here it would be 7-7 if it were ever ever happen!!! people have funny ideas about it in rl so don't always trust people who say their baby sleeps through!! I remember one person on her saying that a colleague of their dh said their newborn was sleeping through the night. When pressed on the matter, he meant other than waking for feeds that is!!!

Medical definition is 5 hours (midnight till 5am).

Depends on the age.

Before about 5 months I'd say sleeping through = 5 or 6 hours in a row, at night (ie not 7-12 but 12-5)

After 5/6 months I'd say sleeping through = no wake ups between their bed time and the time they are up for the day. So absolute minimum 9am to 5am. But ideally 8 till 6 or even 7 to 7.

DD has never done 7 till 7, and probably never will. She needs very little sleep.

early evening till early morning. So 7/8 - 6/7.

6pm until the 10:30pm dream feed then until 7am was sleeping through for me.

I always thought sleeping through meant 7-7. I remember a friend told me both her DDs slept through from six weeks. I was amazed but it turned out her version of sleeping through was midnight-5am.