STILL not sleeping through.

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Give me strength! Five full months of no sleep. Not one night of full sleep whatsoever and it's slowly but surely driving me loopy! DS1 slept consistently from 7-7 at around 4 months so this makes it even harder to digest! Generally DS2 has one feed in the night anytime from 1-5am and goes back down relatively easily, but the past three nights he has taken to pooping in the middle of the night too so that's another wake up. He also stirs and gets upset once or twice and I solve this by giving him a dummy. He goes down at 7pm and doesn't get out of bed again until 7am which is the only positive. All in all I'm shattered and becoming like a nocturnal animal! My DS1 has just turned 2 so I'm run off my feet all day and don't get a chance to nap.
Please tell me the end is in sight?!! When did your little ones sleep 7-7? A few people have said it was 12 months or beyond for their babies so I'm praying this isn't the case for me. I'm back at work full time in three months!

Twin2 slept through from 9/10 months. Twin1 still doesn't quite at nearly 12 months, he usually wakes for a fuss anytime between 3am and 5am - sometimes resettles himself and sometimes needs a cuddle.
They gradually weaned themselves off their 3am feed, stopped waking up for it, I don't remember when, maybe 7/8 months I think.
We stopped the 10:30pm dreamfeed at about 9/10 months as we were disturbing them to get them up more than they were waking/restless (before that, one had always started crying to be fed).

Ha ha ha ha I thought you were going to say your DC was 3 or 4....
you get used to it. I haven't had a full nights sleep in about 4 years you get used to it!

7-7 he would have been 2.5+ (years, not months, sorry!)

DD is 10months old, she is a good sleeper, who sometimes wakes up every 45 minutes (day and night) for weeks on end.

DS 13 months doesn't sleep through. We've just moved him into his own cot after his first birthday and he has had nights where he's only woken once but won't sleep later than 6am.

At 4 months he was waking every 45 mins; at 5 months old he was waking every 2 hours; a 7-8 months he stretched to every 3 hours.

I think you were very lucky with your first and it must be difficult to understand why your second isn't the same. I'm hoping having such a crappy first sleeper it can only be just as bad or better with the second

Nether of
Mine slept through til they were 2!

1 year and 4 days and hasn't slept more than 4 hours since birth. Generally up 2-3 hours in the night, sometimes every 1.5 hours! People tell me her not sleeping is a sign of intelligence apparently! Doesn't make it any better though! I miss my sleep :(

I think until they're on 3 solid meals a day they're a bit young to night wean - most recommendations now are a year but some go for at least 10 months x

4 years old: twice a night to wee. 15 months old: anything from 2-11 times, depending on teeth.
Kellymom is a great resource about night feeds, nutrition and weaning. I have personally kept feeding as it's one of the few things that soothes her back down quickly (especially with the bloody molars coming through.)

It does get better, but night wakings are very common throughout the preschool years. Just do what you have to in order to survive and accept your kids will probably crawl in at every opportunity, once they are out of the cot!

I suspect all babies nutritional needs are different. Many adults wake up for a drink of water in the night, so personally I wouldn't expect a 6 month old to go without

13 months, up to then never more than 4 hrs at a time. But since then he's been great!

7-7!? Nope, DD nearly 4, one can only dream :-) DS 6months, 7pm-5am average 4feeds. Sounds like you were spoilt by your first. I'm with you, sleep deprivation is grim.

He started reliably sleeping through (i.e. Not as a one off fluke) at about 12 months, teething or illness notwithstanding. I weaned him off night feeds at 8 or 9 months as he was literally feeding for seconds then falling asleep, so I started offering water and a cuddle instead and he suddenly stopped waking as often. We also did a bit of the no cry sleep solution.

That said he's been up at night the last few nights, just waking up crying and wanting one of us to go in to him. Not sure why. He's 20 months old now.

I do think your OH should do some nights (or part nights if you need to breastfeed). Being on maternity leave with a baby and toddler is hardly the easy option! That way you feel like you get a break. DD slept through inconsistently once night weaned at 11 months and was generally waking twice a night from about 6 months onwards. I was breastfeeding at each wake up so couldn't take a night off and did feel a bit trapped. Once we night weaned, DH definitely did his share!

I'm with you! DD1 is 3.5 and slept through 7-6 from about 6months old! Never looked back!
DS2 is now 10 months and an absolute nytmare!...wakes countless times a night and I've resorted to milk feeds in the night again just to settle him back quicker!