Once a good sleeper, always a good sleeper?

[Mandraki]

I have an almost 9 week old girl, and I feel like we’ve got lucky in that ,although she doesn’t sleep through yet, she goes down easily (put her in crib half awake/sleepy) at bedtime (around 7) then will have 2 quick feeds, one at 11 and one at 3-4ish, then awake for the day at 7ish.

I however was a TERRIBLE sleeper, kept my poor Mum awake all night, crying and creating until I was 7 years old. I was a nightmare!

A part of me is really anxious that although my baby sleeps well now, that she will suddenly morph into me or that her being a good sleeper will not last.

If you’ve got a good sleeper, have they always been a good sleeper from early on? Is this just her nature as opposed to my highly strung anxious one who still doesn’t sleep at 27 (I don’t wake my Mum up though ha ha ha)

Mine’s generally a good sleeper and then she isn’t. And then she is.
And then .... wait for it ....

Dd is an amazing sleeper always has been I feel she’s benefitted as we have from early on bedtime routines.

According to my mum I was a terrible sleeper she likes to Martyr on about that. My dad has a different take

Mine was a good sleeper till 18 months despite a terrible routine . then was a terrible sleeper. Now even with a good routine he doesnt like to be alone awake unless he is really really chilled / zonked and last night was the first night in months he slept through. He's 2.5 years now

My husband didn’t sleep for the first two years...and now sleeps like a rock. I didn’t sleep much for 9 months and now my sleep is up and down (have had bouts of insomnia in the past but also LONG bouts of sleeping well. Although with a baby it’s hard to remember what that is like 😂)

Mine was a dreadful sleeper (literally waking at least once an hour for 18m) despite everything - a pp said routines... well we had them too. Didn’t work! I think you get what you get with sleepers and you can tinker around the edges with routines etc but generally sleepbis a developmental thing.

At 18m he suddenly got it, and now sleeps through with no bother. Nothing at all that we did, he just took a while to get it.

That’s the thing I’ve tried to do 1scoop she has been in a routine since about 6 weeks, and she is in her own room now, before she notices what’s going on haha! I remember a lot of my not sleeping was because I was anxious about my room and the dark etc so hoping if she’s used to it all early on she’ll not have a problem.

Mixed answers so far! Maybe it’s just down to luck.

DS and I never had much of a routine, but he was always a good sleeper. From 4 months, you could just put him down and he would be out within 5 minutes, and he would sleep for 8 hours at a stretch!

He's 16 months old now and will babble to himself for 20 minutes before falling asleep, and then will usually sleep through. Bed time is between 7 and 8pm, depending on how much nursery knackered him out. He's then up at half 6, usually naturally.

I'm sure i've jinxed myself now :D

DD was (and still is at 3 1/2) an amazing sleeper. Everyone told me it wouldn't last when she started sleeping through the night at about 5 weeks and I never really told people how good she was as it felt like showing off! But I can count on one hand how many times she's woken in the night since she dropped night feeds.

Currently 6 months pregnant with number two and not expecting the same luck this time!

My DD was a great sleeper for the first few weeks, went down easily and only got up for a few quick feeds. It all changed around 4 months and she is still a nightmare to get to sleep at 15 months. It sometimes takes over an hour to get her down and then she is up again half an hour later. Routines did fuck all I'm afraid, it's down the the nature of the individual baby how they sleep, not some magic perfect parenting!

The biggest thing I have learnt so far in my 11 months of being a parent is that anything can change at any time for any reason!

My DD likes routine, unfortunately her favourite routine includes waking up through the night

My DD was a great sleeper from day 1, her sleeping pattern was exactly as your DDs, she then slept through the night from about 3 months. I've never had a sleepless night with her yet and she's nearly 7 now. I just got lucky, she never had colic, constipation, breezed through teething. I remember a mid-wife in the hospital commenting on how good a sleeper she was and said in her experience, if they're a good sleeper early on, they usually stay that way. No idea if this is true or not(it was in my DDs case)

Routine and a very dark room. And luck.