What age did your LO sleep through the night?

[muminmanchester]

Hi all

Just wondering what ages people's babies started reliably sleeping through the night? I'm talking a solid 10-12 hours without waking here by the way!

My LO is 6 months and I'm still up anywhere between 4 and 10 times a night putting dummies in, rolling him back onto his back, untangling his legs/arms from the cot bars... Kind of thought this would be over by now!

3.5years.

Oh wait. No. She still wakes every few nights.

Never mind me. Just hating you all... And your sleep.

My DC is 7 and I'm still waiting...

Mine were doing 10 hours a night by 3 months (dd1) and 6 months (dd2)

We sleep trained though and gave formula before bed (breast fed the rest of the time).

I really recommend air wrap cot bumpers op...solved the issue of limbs through the cot bars.

My dd was quite early sleeping through - about 4mo. BUT she dropped her daytime naps at about 11 months - some days it was torture (I think I would rather have have been up once or twice in the night than dealing with an screechy over tired baby who refused to sleep in the day) - so it's swings and roundabouts. In my very limited experience.

DD between 6 & 8 months and then again from 2.3yrs.
DS between 6 & 8 weeks and then from 3.10yrs. It never occurred to me that he may be worse than DD &, when he started sleeping through at 6 weeks, I was insufferably smug for 10 days that I had a "sleeper" this time.

DS: 2.5 to 3
DD: yet to happen, but does usually (though not at the mo cos she's ill) sleep through from 10ish til about 5am, she's 21 months

Regular waking in children is normal. I found it easier once I accepted & stopped fighting it. Doesn't mean you don't try and help them sleep more but I found it created less angry resistance (in me anyway).

I found co sleeping the best way to get more sleep myself. Some people will say I made a rod etc but DS is now in his own bed happily and has been for a long time.

This is exactly the sort of stuff I should not read as currently considering another baby. Our daughter slept through from 4 weeks. She's 7 months now and I can count on one hand the number of times she's woken in the night. I am never, ever going to be so lucky twice

My lo hates tummy time but at 6 months I would put her on her tummy to settle abd sge would go to sleep. She now sleeps on her side. Also had same issue with dummy. Buy a sleep tot bunny they are great. U attach the dummy to it amd then they have cuddley rabbit and dummy but best of all its easy for them to find. Its been a godsend! I put her in her cot at 630 and she stirs at 5 but she chats for 5 mins then sleeps till 6ish. Honestly Sleepy tot :) xx

Around 18 months. I was broken.

Three. Nearly killed me.

10-11 months when we moved him into his cot in his own room and slowly dropped dream feed.
He does occasionally still wake up when teething/ill etc but has been regularly for 5 months now.

Reliably at around 10 months. It was quite bizarre. I was battling trying to get him to sleep at some point before 11pm and one night he was screaming for bed at 7pm. I put him in his cot, kissed him goodnight and shut the door. He slept for 11 hours and has done every night since. Kiss goodnight in cot at 7 and he settles himself. I was extremely lucky and no one believes me when I tell them I didn't do a thing! Up until then he'd fall asleep between 11 and midnight, be carried to bed and be up every 3 hours or so!

When we sleep trained at 14 months. Otherwise I'm sure he'd still be waking 3-6 times a night. He had to learn how to fall asleep in his cot on his own. Not everyone wants this approach, I understand, I myself didn't want to sleep train but began to get desperate as he began to get even worse past 12 months. Now he sometimes still wakes once in the night but usually only cries for a few seconds & self-settles (though I still wake). X

Mine was rubbish at 6 months then suddenly really got it around a year. We didn't do anything really, he just got gradually better and now (at 20 months) he only wakes in the night if he's ill.

Big recent step forward for us is being able to leave him awake in his cot - we were sitting in the dark holding his hand until he slept until about a month ago.

Oh meant to recommend one of those teddies that holds dummies - a sleepytot. Vast improvement when we got one.

With ds1 it was 6 months, once I stopped night feeds really.

Ds2 has only recently started to sleep through at 12 months. I'm scared to even talk about it incase I jinx things, he was a terrible sleeper but we seem to have come through it. He'd wake constantly and in the end I just coslept with him.

My tips would be, having a bedtime routine and keeping at it, we attached ds dummy to his sleeping bag with a little dummy clip so he can put it back in by himself, a decent Grobag, don't really like dream feeds as I think it creates a habit.