How heavy was your baby when he/she first slept for 8hours straight?

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My DD is 4.5months old but was 2 months early and small for dates so still only weighs around 10lbs.

She sleeps well but her limit is about 6hours at night. I suspect this is size related. Books and other posts generally talk about ages which is hard to interpret in my case.

How heavy were yours when they could go for a whole night?

Thanks for the help

DD is 9months, 16.9lbs, and wakes four or five times a night.

I can't remember exact ages because they would do it for a few weeks then have a growth spurt and it would all go backwards. Both of mine were heavy at birth (8lb+) and I distinctly remember as they got heavier they slept longer. Both sleeping 12 hours before age of 1 (ebf).

no idea about weight. My DD slept through from birth from 6.30pm until 7.00 am( in that she never woke up!) but I gave her 2 dream feeds in that time - one before I went to bed, and one at about 3 a.m.

I am an exceptionally light sleeper when it comes to my DC, though, and would wake up as she started smacking her lips in her sleep ( way before hunger woke her up and she cried) and I would feed her. She never got hungry, so she never woke or cried.

She started to drop the 11pm & 3.am feed at around 8 weeks, but needed one or both occasionally. Very rarely needed it after 12 weeks, and completely stopped once she was weaned.

She has always slept through (except when ill)

Three.

.... As for weight no idea...but she was a big baby on 75% on chart. And it was three years old ( not weeks or months)!

16 months and counting, I can only dream of 6 hours sleep.

Sorry, not helpful.

40lb and 3.11. Still waiting....

At least I don't have to get up any more as he deals with waking up himself- I still wake up every time he wakes up though

E b f baby slept 10-5 since birth at 6lb and now 930-8 at 13wk and 12lb still e b f

Other e b f DS slept thru from birth 8lb5 too

Mixture gina ford and genetics I think

Nobody believes me til they see how non tired and energtic I am!!

Goes to show formula doesn't make a diff it's genetics I think

ebf baby now 16 weeks old, he's slept 8 hours through quite a few times, usually does 6 1/2 and we've had a few disrupted nights mostly due to extreme heat, wind or vaccinations

but he goes up to bed with me, has what will become a dream feed at 10pm then goes straight down, if it's a good night til dh's alarm at 0600

just need to figure out how to put him down earlier without him waking earlier :-/ but there's no rush...

DS1 was 7m old and about 8.5 kilos when he slept 8 hours straight. 5lb 0oz at birth.

DS2 is 2 next week, weighs 12.9 kilos, and has never slept more than 3 hours without waking (and that's only when he's unusually tired). 6lb 6oz at birth.

Both were BF.

Sorry!

10lb 14ozs onwards, that was his birth weight and he slept for 9+ hours a night from day one.

We got our payback with his little brother btw who didn't sleep through reliably until he was about 2 years old.

God these thread always make me feel like a bad mother. I can't even remember what my DSs weighed at birth let alone when they first slept through. Although DS2 was three and a half (breast fed until he was 10 months) when he first slept through for eight hours so probably would have skewed the results!

Hmm, DC1 is nearly 4 years, we're starting to get there most nights recently. At 4 months if he did a single stretch of 2 hours in one night we thought we'd had a good night, more usual was about 40 minutes!

DC2 was doing 8 hours from about 8 months, not sure what her actual weight was but she has always been around 20 centile. 7.30 - 6.30 from about 12 months. Thank goodness she was so much better at sleeping than the first one. I really hope number 3 is when s/he arrives too!

DS rarely does, even now. He's almost 6. DD did from 5 or 6 weeks. We had a Cocoonababy with her - I'd have paid a grand for the thing, frankly. Cures colic, too.

Regularly?
Teenagers I think.

Around 6 months I think, can't completely remember!

Ds2 slept 8 hours twice this week at 9/10 weeks old! I'm like this :o

He is dreamy though. Super chilled and happy.

I have never had a baby like this. Ds1 woke every 45 fucking minutes until he was a year old!

Op I've had two prems, one born at 32 weeks and the other at a bare 28 weeks. The 32 weaker was term size when he came out of hospital, he was exclusively bf and slept through for 12 hours from about 9 weeks of coming home. My youngest did badly weight gain wise in hospital, was unde 5 lb when she came home, people stopped me in the street to let me know I had a small baby. She slept 12 hours straight at again about 10 weeks home, and certainly under 10lb. I'll add that she is now a very healthy 75pc 4 year old and bright as a button.

So what I concluded from all of this is

Size does not matter - my first born was term and 99 pcentile , and she took longer to sleep through

Prems get used to big three to four hourly feeds in hospital so that is what they want when they get home

Bottle feeding makes no odds my first was mixed fed, my two prems were ebf

On the whole, it's a combination of luck and consistency......

But they all do it eventually. Take care of yourself

I do t agree that weight has nothing to do with it.
I think that tiny very light babies are unlikely to sleep through. I think they need to be close to 10lb to do it. When people say weight has nothing to do with it, I think they mean that their children were older and heavier and still did not sleep through.

I had a small baby (6lb 3oz) who slept from 11 until 7 at 14 weeks. At that point he was about 12lb if I recall correctly. He was on the Gina Ford routines. It coincided with the end of breast feeding.
He slept 12 hours at about 5.5 months,which coincided with the start of weaning.

So I'm sure babies can be too little to sleep through...their tummies are too small to hold enough food to keep them going for long. However, it seems many babies get to a weight where sleeping through is possible, but still don't for a considerable time.

DD was 9 months, DS 10 months.

He was bigger than her at birth and still is.

They'll sleep when they're ready.

I've never thought about it in terms of weight. Both slept 12 hours at about 6 months. From 4 months, ds1 would wake once to feed between 7 and 7; sometimes he'd wake at midnight, then sleep till morning, other times it'd be 3am when he woke for a feed. Both breasted.

I think it might have something to do with weight... (Or at least it did for me?)

DD1 was HUGE and she slept through from 3 weeks, about 10 hours plus 3 short daytime naps. It was blissful. By 3 months she was sleeping 12/13 hours a night and having 2 naps.

DD2 was smaller and has always been a nightmare sleeper, she only recently started to sleep through and she's 13 months! (And even then it's still not every night.)

And they were both formula fed...

I mean breasted!

Breast fed! ( on iPad!)