What age did your baby start sleeping at night...

[Ilovefood15]

Hi ladies,

I have a five week old, who wakes every two hours for milk. I know she is still quite young to be sleepin through but just wondered what age I can expect a longer stretch of sleep! I am exhausted! She also is very hard to get back in her Moses basket after the 4 am bottle but will happily go back asleep on my or in our bed within seconds!

Thanks for any advice x

DS1 (ff) 8 months
DS2 (bf) 8 months

DS1 - 10 months
DS2 - 23 months (and even now he's hit and miss)

(both BF)

7 . I only have the 1 .

First child at 2months and 2nd child at 4 months

My two were both doing 10 hour stretches by about 3 months but jabs and teething always put a bit of a spanner in the works! Dd1 started having night terrors when she got to about 20 months old and she's only slept through (12 hours) a handful of times since then. Dd2 stopped sleeping through when she stopped breastfeeding at 8 months which was a shock to the system and a pain as I hadn't ever ff a baby until then!!

Dd1 : 6 weeks, breast fed till 10 months, slept 9-9, dd2: 7 months! Was up 8 times a night every night till we got a sleep specialist. Breast fed again till 10 months x

We're at 5.5 months and BFing and still not sleeping through. If I'd had known that at 5 weeks though I would have cried! It really feels like you won't be able to cope but it gets easier as you get used to it. If I get a 4-5 hour stretch now I feel like superwoman :)

Mine is in the 4 month sleep regression so can't comment on that. But as a side note, I found it helpful to just stop trying to get him back in his basket or cot after the 4 or 5 am feed, and I just have him in bed with me for the rest of the night from then on. Less hassle and I actually really enjoy that bit of the night. Plus I don't feel like I'm starting bad habits because at least he sleeps in his own cot the rest of the night.

DS1 was 15 months and is a fantastic sleeper still at 2.5. DS2 is 7 months and up around 8 times a night currently with no sign of things improving anytime soon. DS1 was bf for 8 months and DS2 was bf until 5 months and now is mixed fed.

DD at around 2 months, BF. Then went back to 2-3 wake ups a night around 7 months and didn't slept through until maybe 15mo.

I'm hoping number 2 will sleep through as early as my first.

DD is still a great sleeper too. All she woke up for was losing her duvet or pillow. (She is 3). And she would go straight back after we tuck her in again. I know number 2 will be horrid. Can't have so much luck with sleep!

2xbf babies slept 930-10- 530/630 the on to 8am by 3 weeks.

Luck and gina ford !

Both only ever woke once at night around 4-5am from birth so didn't take much.

Ds1; 7months
Ds2; slept through from the start until he started bastard teething at 6 m, he's 10m now and still wakes for bottles at night

Mine did 6.30 to 6.30 consistently from 3mo. Very lucky parents and she still does that but more like 7 till 6.30 at 20mo. We have obviously had illness and teething which have given us a few rough nights I'm between and we have little phases of early rising bit generally we have been blessed. She was ff from 8 weeks but at 5 weeks was up every 2 hours or so.

Dc1 - 10 weeks, dc2 - 18 months before he did it for the first time, more like 3 before he did it all the time. Dc3 was 2.5
All bf'd - I don't think the feeding makes a difference, I think it's just when they are ready. Dc2 and 3 have sleep issues still (night terrors which are hereditary), dc1 has always slept like a log.

My BF 7 week old has been doing regular 5-6 hour stretches for a while. Thursday and Friday nights her longest stretch was 7.5 hours-last night she woke/fed every 4 hours.

DD1 was doing this too but didn't reliably sleep for 12 hours until 8 months

Reliably 10.30pm to 6.00am at eight weeks, 6.30pm to 6.30am from about 12 weeks, breastfed. DS1 was a bit later, he woke up at 2.00am until 12 weeks old, DS2 was about four months but we moved house in the middle so think that upset him. All were breastfed.

At 11 months mine has only properly gone through the night about six times. He does do lots of long stretches though and it is a lot easier than it was in the early weeks. Stopped feeding most nights at about 8 months.

Dd now 11 was a dream .. In a routine from birth.. Fed every 4 hours & was going from about 10pm til about 6am from age of 6 weeks... She gave me a false sense of security however because ds now 2 demand fed & didn't sleep through until he was about 16 weeks.. That was when he cut out a during the night feed but rose earlier in the morning!!

5.5 months. Coincided with stopping bf, but we had always struggled with bf due to a tongue tie. He was a skinny, 0.4% centile, colicky baby until we switched to bottles, so sleep wasn't the only thing that magically improved - I'm not sure if it would be have been the same experience if bf had been easier for us.

At 5 weeks, I felt like I was going to die of exhaustion. It does get easier though, and you get better at coping.

Btw in the early days I found things much easier when I gave up putting him in the moses basket and let him sleep next to me attached to my boob. I aimed for one stretch per night in tbr basket but did manage to increase this and by 10 weeks although still waking he was mostly next door and not coming in with me until about 5am.

The basket!

I can't pin point as it was a gradual process with DD1. Once she was in a routine but she was 15 months until she stopped waking at 4 or 5 for a feed and slept at least 10 hours straight.
I have a Dd2 (will be 4 weeks on Wednesday). She is breast fed also.
She is showing some kind of pattern at the moment which tends to be 11/12 feed, 3/4am feed, 7/8am feed. This changes though and she can tend to 'snack'. This is usually when she has some gripe or is working on something. She sleeps next to me in a cradle or often just falls asleep on me and I let her stay there as it's easier.
Night time feeds are not too bad, it's the early evening feeds doing my head in... Usually 4 hours of screaming right when trying give DD1 dinner, bath or put to bed.

Ds - 9 weeks
Dd - I'll let you know. She is 2.8 and not there yet.