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

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wigwam33 · 03/02/2015 10:15

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).

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BMO · 03/02/2015 17:54

Attachment/responsive though also with a strong routine (do you think the two are incompatible?)

I don't know when they regularly midnight until 7 to be honest.

DS1 slept through, 10-11 hours, at about 2.5 years.

DS2 slept through, 12-13 hours, at about 8 months.

Hulababy · 03/02/2015 17:55

DD slept through from about 3 months old - for a good fortnight or two. And then we went on holiday for a week. From that moment she didnt sleep all the way through for months - at just gone 20 months we caved and did a slightly gentler version of CC (basically she stood and called "mummy I need you" constantly whilst we did the whole coming back after 1 min, 2 min, etc) It did work though, after 2 or 3 days she did sleep through properly.

neversleepagain · 03/02/2015 20:12

Twin 1 at 11 weeks actual, 5 weeks corrected age
Twin 2 at 14 weeks actual, 8 weeks corrected age

We had a routine from when we got home from the hospital at 2 weeks old. Bed at 7pm, dream feed at 11pm and they slept until I woke them for a 7am feed. Admittedly I spent most of the early evening settling them in their cots but the perseverance paid off.

FF and Gina Ford.

sunnybobs · 03/02/2015 20:16

DC1pfb -not till 18months/2
DC2 - 12 hours a night from 6 months after following the routine found in mad parenting book Moms on Call on my kindle. Was like magic as she had been dreadful from 3 months to 6 months. Then with no crying really she went to all nighters

Wrongornot · 03/02/2015 20:24

Dd slept through the night before her 6 week check 7pm - 7am and hand on heart since then she has maybe woken 10 or 12 times between those hours. She is 5 next week! She was also 10 weeks early so she actually slept through before her due date! (I did ask her consultant if it was okay - as she was barely 4lb)

Def luck and not genetics - I didn't sleep through until I was three!

PenguinsandtheTantrumofDoom · 03/02/2015 20:30

DD1 - At 11 months we sleep trained her and she slept through until 5am. Another four months or so to stop the early wakings. Before we sleep trained she would be up 2-4am almost every night, plus another 2-3 wakings.

DD2 - Seemed to know not to push her luck as hard and woke every 2 hours (but from about 12 months only for 5 minutes) until she was about 21 months, when suddenly she slept through.

DS- Too early to say at 9 months, but currently following DD1.

DD1 I did everything 'right'. DD2 I did total hippy responsive. I think DD2 was easier.

lecherslady · 03/02/2015 23:34

DD1 - at 6 weeks slept six hours a night (12-6), at seven weeks slept seven hours (12-7) and at 8 weeks slept 8 hours (11-7).

I followed the baby whisperer and did dream feeding to gradually drag put the sleeping by one hour a week until DD was sleeping 12 hours a night.

DD2 was the same but a week ahead of DD1.

butterfly86 · 04/02/2015 09:50

Dd started sleeping from 7 til 6/7 at about 5 and a half months she just gradually dropped feeds before that so would do say 7 til 1 then another feed at 5 then she dropped the 1 o clock one so would sleep 7 til 4 then eventually slept right through

Writerwannabe83 · 04/02/2015 10:42

DS slept through the night at 9 months but only because we turned to sleep training.

Only1scoop · 04/02/2015 10:45

From 12 weeks but had a nice night routine in place pretty much from birth....bath ....feed....down in crib etc.

longestlurkerever · 04/02/2015 10:48

She went through patches of good sleep and then bad sleep. Tbh I didn't find sleeping through was a helpful term as a short wake up in the middle of the night is not a problem if she went back to sleep and was preferable to being raring to go at 5-6 after technically sleeping through. Several wake ups or a prolonged period of being awake is a nightmare long term though. She did start sleeping reliably through for a couple of months around 7 months but then it went haywire again till 13 months when I stopped bfing. She has slept brilliantly since then and is now 3.5 and I am nervous of going back to the beginning with dd2 due later this year x

Jackiebrambles · 04/02/2015 10:59

We had a few fluke sleeps through the night from around 3 months but more often than not he'd wake once or twice and I'd feed him. I never dream fed him, just waited til he woke.

When I night weaned at probably around 11-12 months he started to sleep through the night a bit after that.

We did gradual withdrawal which helped too as he was originally feeding to sleep but we made sure he was awake when we put him down and did the gradual withdrawal. We've had to repeat it on occasions when he's been in a different bed (holidays etc) or after sickness.

Consistently though, I would say he was 12-13months.

Jackiebrambles · 04/02/2015 11:01

Tbh I didn't find sleeping through was a helpful term as a short wake up in the middle of the night is not a problem if she went back to sleep and was preferable to being raring to go at 5-6 after technically sleeping through.

I totally agree with this. DS woke in the night long after a lot of his friends were sleeping through, but then he didn't wake until gone 7am (same now, I have to wake him up most days) whereas they were all up at 5.30 or 6. I couldn't have coped with that.

PenguinsandtheTantrumofDoom · 04/02/2015 11:05

I agree with that too. I actually didn't find sleeping through and up at 5 that bad, but I was coming from a pretty low base! I'd certainly have found up once for 5-10 minutes and sleeping until 7 easier than sleeping 7-5am.

isntthatapippip · 04/02/2015 11:07

Ds1 is 4 and still wakes a few times a night calling for me
Ds2 is 4 months and doesn't sleep through but given ds1's sleeping I am not expecting anything

NickyEds · 04/02/2015 15:54

12 weeks- Mix fed and we did a dream feed at 10 ish and he went until 6.30. Imagine my joy! At 6.5 months he learnt to crawl and woke at least three times a night, sometimes every 90 minutes until we did cc at 11 months. At 13 months he now goes 7-5.30 and I'm still knackered!

Alyx80 · 04/02/2015 22:11

This is sleeping 11/12 hours straight.
Ds1 - 16 months (did 3 weeks of 7-7 at 5 months but then regressed)
Ds2 - 12 months
Ds3 - 18 months (did 6 weeks of 10-7 at 4.5-6 months then regressed)
Hoping for earlier with Ds4!

teacher54321 · 04/02/2015 22:49

Ds regularly slept through from 10months, which coincided with me stopping bf. He has gone through phases (is now 2.9) I always go to him if he is distressed in the night, he usually comes in for a 2 minute snuggle and then realised he can't sleep in our bed and his be dos much nicer and toddles off back! We can't co sleep, have never managed it!

Lovelydiscusfish · 04/02/2015 23:18

Dd was approaching 2 before she properly, regularly did 7-7.
It did coincide with us stopping bf, to be honest. She did self-wean, after I stopped feeding to sleep, at around this age.
I don't regret bf for as long as I did, though. I feel it was right for us, and for our relationship. It was also right to end when we did, and the change in dd's sleep at that time seemed appropriate for her, and was of course very welcome to dh and myself!
I think there's a time for everything. The broken nights then didn't seem broken, iyswim, because we would just pop dd in our bed and she would feed back to sleep. It all seemed very natural and normal. But if she wakes up now ( as she very occasionally does, if poorly or whatever) then it's a whole different story, and I really struggle with it!

mrsmugoo · 05/02/2015 07:29

From 1-4 months it was waking to feed thought the night every 2-3 hours, sometimes more.

At 5 months dropped down to feeds around 1 & 4 so would get a stretch of sleep from 7:30-1

At 6 months would usually sleep from 7:30-4am, sometimes 5 for a feed.

At 7 months slept from bedtime to at least 5am. I dropped feeds but still went in to resettle back down til wakeup time of 7am

At 8 months finally sleeping 8-7 without any resettling involved from me = sleeping through the night

MrTumblesBavarianFanbase · 05/02/2015 07:38

DD - 24 months, but she only woke once or twice a night from 11 months.

DS1 - 9 months (he never woke more than twice a night even when younger)

DS2 - nearly 3 (he woke pretty much hourly til he was 2.5 and aged me about 20 years in that time!)

Though I tried various things none worked except night weaning for DD and DS1 - made no difference for DS2, whom the doctor was willing to prescribe melatonin and refer to a sleep clinic shortly before he cracked sleeping of his own accord. He's 3.9 now and wakes a couple of nights a week but can be sent back to bed via the potty (though there is a risk of him then going and waking his brother).

Advantage of light sleepers is that they are easy to get out of night nappies - all night dry 100% reliably quickly and before the age of 3.5

Figfog · 05/02/2015 07:41

I think it was about 8/9 months. It was when I gave up night breastfeeding and we did some light sleep training. He is now 15 months and now sleeps from about 6.30am- 6.30pm with the odd night of random waking where he might just need a cuddle or a drink.

MrTumblesBavarianFanbase · 05/02/2015 07:43

None of mine have ever slept til 7am except as a fluke and the eldest is 9.5 (years)! But as we have to all get up at 6 am Mon - Fri 6 am is ingrained. Til age 5 or 6 my older kids got up at 5am despite blackout blinds, but DS2 only does that if he's slept (at all, even 5 mins) in the day or fallen asleep before 7am. Children wake early - people who wine about young kids who sleep through but get up at 5am don't know how easy they have it!

mrsmugoo · 05/02/2015 08:23

I adjusted bedtime a bit later to get a wakeup time of 7am. I don't start work til 10am so I definitely would not consider myself "lucky" to be rising at 5am!

Also I'd get no evening because I'd have to be asleep by 10pm at the latest to get a hope of a decent nights sleep.

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