When will they sleep through the night?

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My DS is only a newborn so I'm expecting many more sleepless nights.
He is EBF so feeding on demand ATM.

But I would like to hear your best advice on how to get them settled into a good sleep routine.
I mean to start as I go on and I've heard that for a lot of people the early stages are important to be able to establish a good sleep pattern later on.

So how have you managed to get your baby to sleep through? How early on is that possible ?

The best tip I can give is put him down when he's sleeping, don't get into habit of holding him. We made this mistake with dd1 because she was just so damn cute. Tip 2 get in an eat play sleep routine (so don't feed to sleep, stimulation after food and then down for nap you can replace play with bedtime stories at bedtime- never too young to read to). Tip 3, be there when he calls you. Babies don't cry for no reason. Always respond and deal with what's wrong ( nappy/ wind/ food/ cuddle) then back to it....and look after yourself.

Babies do their own thing and each one is different.

This is SO true. I had twins. We had a routine from the start: feed, bath, gentle songs and cuddles, bed.
One slept through from six weeks. the other didn't sleep through until he was 8 years old. Constant waking. He had a number of health problems that caused this. But still, he naturally needs very little sleep, even now in his teens.
However, I'm really glad we established a routine, even though it didn't work for one of them. Having a nightly bath becae a fixed routine and now they are teens they don't smell as badly as most of their dear mates who forget to bathe.

Lol at the parents who think their kids sleep through the night purely from routine and their parenting ha ha haaaaaaaaaaa

don't expect anything just look,read,review in a way to thinking and seeing ways to help YOU cope.becasue every single baby is different.and what works for one family will seem to destroy the next!
and you will laden yourself with guilt and whether you then no it or not you will ne going to bed already with the burden of what if failure on ur hands.comparing to others is a road that leads to failure.
be watchful.wait.observe and feel what works for you.
and think and learn and armour yourself with great ways to cope and feel ok with whatever happens.it can be different from one child to one night to the next.you will be ok.in the mist of no sleep and more tears it can seem there is no escape.you will despair and ur baby will hear it through ur then actions. but you and the little one are as one and connected in such a way for a reason.to ease and help eachother get through.a team.
armour urself with some breathing techniques for ur own sanity.
you can leave them to cry a little.
don't reward tears for bottle automatically.feel that gap that comes from a baby in an unkown world obviously wakin and think "woooooo,where am I"and then balls.but will quickly settle itself once it realise its safe and well and ok.
your voice can ease so much.
tapes of soft singing.
darkness.babies eyesight isn't at full capacity so shadows from nightlights can cause more terror in the early days.
this too shall pass.
enjoy the days.dont be worrying about sleep and naptimes and routines.when you should be thinking oh hello I almost missed yo smiling at me down there darling.soooo many times I never "saw" her because I was in my own head calculating planning,and worrying.just look at them.you can do this.