Honestly - when did your LO sleep 'through the night'?

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OK I know this is can be a tiresome topic (quite literally!) but I'm genuinely interested, given the anonymity of MN. When did your LO sleep through? By that I mean do a long stretch from the hours of midnight until about 6.30-7.00am on a regular basis (not just a one off fluke). And did you do a routine or attachment /responsive based or a mix? Please share!

I'm on DC number 2 and she is 3 1/2 months and currently wakes around 3 times between midnight and 7am. This is substantially worse since she turned 12 weeks, for some reason.

DC number 1 woke up at night until the age of 2 years 1 month. With him we co-slept and although he napped in the day regularly we didn't instigate any kind of fixed routine in the daytime, just one for bedtime (7.30am).

Oops, forgot to say, I did feed them overnight, but I had to wake them up to do it rather than them waking up by themselves.

11pm til 6am - 10-12 weeks for both of mine.

I did mixed feeding, mainly BF, but with a bottle of formula for the late feed about 10.30pm - worked well for us.

DD1 - around 1 year

DD2 - 2 weeks

You get a sleeper or you don't, IMO.

DD is 14 months and manages it about once every 2 weeks.

DS1 reliably slept through at 2 years old, he had brief periods before that but any hint of teething/cold he'd be up.

DS2 is 4.11 and still comes in with us about half the time......

Both have had a set bedtime and routine since a few months old but we've never done any CC or sleep training, both cuddled to sleep or in with us for as long as they wanted.

12 months and counting.

I thought last night was the night. It wasn't...

Both mine slept pretty reliably through the night from 3 months. I realise I was very lucky!

16 weeks

DD was waking to bf once or twice a night till she was about 10 months, but it was generally a 15 minute feed back to sleep and that was it. She's now nearly three and sleeps 12 or 13 hours a night unless she's ill or has a funny dream, and if she's up in the night she sleeps late the next morning.

Her brother, on the other hand, was doing a six hour stretch reliably by six weeks and by 10 weeks he was doing 11 or 12 hours a night. I couldn't believe it; I congratulated myself on having had them that way round and revelled in six weeks of a blissfully well-rested household - then he hit four months, regressed with utterly wild abandon and hasn't slept since. He's now approaching ten months and I'm broken...

DC1 - 10 weeks
DC2 - 12 weeks
DC3 - 8 weeks
DC4 - 12 weeks for 4 weeks then hit 4 month sleep regression and didn't go a full night again until 11mo. I still get a bit panicky about that time and every time DC4 has a restless patch of sleep I worry (is 20mo now). We joke that if no.4 had been no.3 there wouldn't have been a no.4...but it's probably true.

All ebf and I counted sleeping through as going around 11pm-7am with no feeds during that time.

DS was 13mo when he started going 7.30 to 6.30ish.

He does that 4/7 nights a week and the other nights he wakes at 4/5ish and he comes into our bed.

No sleep training cause we are too
lazy soft and plenty of night feeds (bf) until 13mo.

He was a horrific sleeper from the start though - at one point around the 6mo mark he was waking every 50 minutes!

Of course the irony is that I was pregnant once he started sleeping all night so he slumber blissfully while I toss and turn and pee 7 or 8 hundred times a night!!!

Twins are on the horizon in May and I quiver when I think about what sort of sleepers they will be

About 2 months old. But he is only 4.5m now so it may not last. And we have no real routine, he goes to bed when we do and naps on me when he is tired.

About 2.

She was BF on demand and we didn't leave her to cry.

Oh gosh Nuno, sounds like we had two of a kind! 11 months, you say..?! Am just living in terror that not sleeping might turn out to be inherent to his personality rather than a phase!!

Reading this has cheered me up no end!
DC1 was 2.3 although, now 5.3, is waking up more often than she has for a while & creeping into bed with us. Bad dreams perhaps?
DC2 is 2.7 and has the odd fortnight when he sleeps through but has ended up in bed with us most nights since Xmas.
The biggest problem is that DC2 is a wriggler & likes to go across the bed whereas DC1 lies perfectly still & in a normal position.
We've tried the odd bit of sleep training I've the years but it just makes us miserable & seems to have no long term effect as the next cold, holiday etc just knocks them off kilter again.

DS started sleeping through reliably from 7pm - 6am at 2.6. Before that it was hell - he'd be up between 6 and 8 times a night. I wanted to stab other mums in the eye who said their children had been sleeping through from 8 weeks.