have YOU ever lied about your baby sleeping through?

[ratfly]

Interestingly, someone pointed out that most people who say their babies sleep through at mother and baby groups lie.

I am putting so much pressure on myself to get ds to sleep through, as it appears everyone else is getting a good night's sleep (as well as the fact I feel like a zombie most days..) by 3 - 4 months.

So, did you lie about your baby's sleep habits at mother baby / NCT / post natal groups?

i sometimes found it easier to say 'yes' when the ask as it was a one word answer. Sometimes i'd be honest and say 'no' biut that would be followed by 'welll.... she did sleep through last week, and oh yeah she been teethinmg this week' etc etc always making excuses. dont know why tho???

at 9 months she sleep through but not if she is ill or teething but people dont ask me anymore?!!

I was the opposite. ds slept from 11-5 right from the time he was born and within a couple of weeks was sleeping longer than that. I used to keep quiet about it to my nct friends as they were having such hard times - it seemed like boasting and I felt a bit embarrassed when they were all so tired.

I got payback with my subsequent babies though

Never lied. Never needed to. Shocked that people feel the need to. Even when they are lying, the other way round,to help, sleep deprived mums.
I just think that puts peoplr under a false illusion. And I don't see that as 'helping'.
But then, I HATE white lies. With a passion. Can't see the point of slimming down, or beefing up, the truth.
The truth is the truth. Shame we can't be honest with eachother.

Same experience as Pollyanna ... dd has always been a good sleeper ... 12--5 from weeks and most of the time out like a light at 1930 to 0530/0600. I just 'withheld' that from pals who were really suffering ... it was the last thing they needed to hear ...

and I can't be arsed with that competitiveness that some mothers have shining like a beacon on their heads!

I think people exaggerate the 'sleeping through' period tho ... I'd define it as a half decent stretch without interruption of say 5 hours on which you can 'function'.

no...weird!

No I didn't lie - Ds did sleep for about 5 hrs most days from the age of 6 weeks - 3 months old but it was just between 6pm and 11pm. I therefore have no concept or idea of the evening cluster feeding scenario where the newborn baby screams all evening. He did wake regularly between 10pm and 5pm though. Also his sleeping and crying got much worse after 3 months not better. I seemed to be the only mother in the group whose child had that pattern

No never lied but i think i only talked about it if it's realy good as in "would you believe he slept 14 hours last night" (once and once only ) or if i had been up every hour and a half (sadly much more common)

No, have never lied about this.
Does anyone think/know some people lie the other way because they would be embarrassed to tell someone who's surviving on next to no sleep about how much they are getting?