When did your dc start sleeping through?

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Or sleeping at night for periods of 6 hours +

Just curious.

Dd1 17 months.

Dd2 from about one week. It's amazing! Both bf, no difference in what I do with them.

Funny thing for us is that DS would’ve happily slept through as a baby - I had a real struggle waking him for feeds. But once he didn’t need them anymore he still woke up!

21/2

dc1 - 14 weeks
dc2 - 10 months (and until this was max 3 hour stretches. It nearly did for me)
dc3 - 12 weeks

They are all different.

29 months after dropping nap

This thread makes me want to cry. All I talk about, long for, dream of (if I ever get to sleep) is sleep.

1: 6 weeks 😁
2: 2.5 years and still likes to wake in the night for a visit (7!)

DD- still doesn't and she's 12yrs old. For a few months, aged 4.5yrs she slept through, then regressed back to not sleeping through.
DS- about 10 months

Both very different!

Dd1 12 weeks 9 hours every night
Dd2 16 weeks 12 hours
Ds1 He was about 12 before he slept properly. He would manage 6 to 7 hours at about 5 on a good day.
Dd3 10months and still wakes once every night.

My baby never had a problem ever from the day he was born. Thankfully he was always a well child. When I took him home I let him sleep and when he cried I looked at him and put my hand nearby.so he could feel me. I gave 1 feed every night and he slept through. As for teething it was never an issue. I would put natural teething gel on one of the nuby teether(a bit like a dummy bit for teething) and still at 1.5 no problem. I think of you use strong medication they need ipt moresp often I troed to get my use to the natural teething gel and thankfully I suceeded. It might not work for everyone but I want others to know to try it and dont gove into parental guilt thinking cries are unhappiness or pain. At 6 months he was out of his crib and into a cot bed and I put him down at 7 every night with milk and after 1 years old water. 7pm clean nappy on and then put on his light show and gave him a links toys and left.him. I have done this everyday since and never returned to the room. He never cried either for me to return. He wakes up 630 am.daily and taps to himself and 7am I go and get him. Everyday since I stuck with that routine and for me routine works. If your child stirs in the night in minutes they will go back to sleep Unless they are unwell leave them to it. When they know you go at every whine they will pick up on that and cry. I have learned to watch how my sister's deal with things and they got into habits. He wants me she's upset. If you know they are I'll go in I wouldn't hesitate. But the routine has been a dream for me he is 1.5 years old and I've had energy and great nights sleep. NOW I'm due a girl (overdue) things may be different and I may have sleepless nights because they are I'll or teething Etc. I can only hope my routine with my boy works for my girl. Good luck it is hard and every child is different. I just want parents to know a routine is important. 7pm bed a clean nappy and a teether (dummy as a baby) bottle of milk and leave the room. I never used a monitor as I didn't want that radiation in the room and also I would only stare at it. I leave in a flat anyway it's all on one floor so I would hear a problem. GOOD LUCK

I only have one DC and she slept through from 9 weeks

10 months. Almost as soon a second I started settling her in her cot rather than holding her until she fell asleep.

Dc1- first time, 8 months. Regularly, 2 years (after properly sleep training 😭)

Dc2 - first time, 2 years, again after proper sleep training. Now at 2.5 he sleeps through often but not always by any stretch.

DS 1 it was at about 4.5 (years,sadly)
DS 2 is 2y8m and still waking 2-3 times every single night.
We are cursed!

DS1 - 11 weeks old - 7.30-6.30 (bottle fed)

DS2 - 12 weeks old - 7.00 - 7.30 (breastfed)

6+ hours (these are approx since I wouldn't consider 6h sleeping through so the time it happened less of a milestone to remember)

DC1 9 months
DC2 2 months
DC3 From the delivery room. Literally Day 1 onwards
DC4 7 weeks, when first taking the dummy

Sleeping through (uninterrupted 11h+):

DC1 about 18m inconsistently, 2y6m consistantly.
DC2 - 6 months
DC3 - 8 weeks
DC4 - 9m inconsistently, 12m consistantly.

Weirdly all of mum once I stopped breastfeeding. I can't work out why they weren't unsettled whilst bf they would wake for a feed and go back to sleep but if they weren't fed they'd then get upset.
Once that bedtime feed went that was it. No waking ????

Never sadly. Aged 2 and 4

I replace the feed with a big beaker of very creamy milk and sometimes nesquik maybe that's the secret??!!?

DC2 was 2y 4m, I kid you not. Awake anything between 2 - 10 times a night.

DC1 was about 6m, I did everything same the second time, proving unequivocally it's down to nature not nurture.

If you have a good sleeper, don't be smug be thankful.

If you have a good sleeper, don't be smug be thankful.

This definitely. ( jlou2015 take note!)

Ds1 - 11mths
Dd1 - 3.5yrs
And yes we tried everything - apart from shutting them in a room all night to cry

Ugh people who think their kid sleeping through is down to their handywork are the worst

6 months (when she went in her own room).

Had a phase of waking in the night for several months aged around 4 or 5 years though.

DD1 was 16mo and it was moving her into a toddler bed with duvet that did it. The first night in the new bed was like somebody had swapped our child. She regressed after DD2 was born (when DD1 was 24mo) and now at 3.4yo sleeps through 50% of nights. When she wakes sometimes it's to use the loo or if not a quick cuddle and she's back down. We had tried many things to get her to sleep better sooner, and although most made a small difference it didn't fix the problem.
DD2 slept through for about 2wks at 3.5mo. Then the 4m sleep regression hit... She's 15mo now and wakes once or twice a night which we are grateful for! Very very occasionally she will sleep through (once a month?). I moved her to a toddler bed (hopeful!) but although it has improved things, it isn't the magic cure it was for her sister.

I class 'sleeping through' as putting them down at bedtime and not seeing them again until a reasonable hour in the morning (after 6.30) though. Some class it as a 5+hr stretch, and by that standard DD2 would qualify 50% of nights too.

17 months and waiting.