Sleeping through

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Curious as to what people consider "sleeping through the night"?

7-7? 10-7? 12-7?

Being put down to bed and sleeping through until a reasonable time in the morning - after 6am I’d say.

Some people say it’s a stretch of 6 hours, or 12-5 or something, but to me that is preposterous.

For me, it's when I can put them to bed sometime around 8, and they're not up until some time after 6.

Ie. I have time to spend an hour watching TV, and get a full night's sleep myself too.

Between 10-11 is the last feed (and when we go to bed) and DS has been in bed since anywhere between 6:30-7:30pm.
He'll often wake between 3-5am for a feed and then go through until 7am. If he did wake between 3-5am for a feed, that would be considered "sleeping through"?

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An 8 hour stretch is sleeping through, by my definition. Doesn't matter what time they get up (I wake up at 5:30am anyway).

Right from when I put her down to at least 6/7 in the morning

I would say bedtime to 6am onwards. Unfortunately my 11.5mo has not done this once in his life.

Between 10-11 is the last feed (and when we go to bed) and DS has been in bed since anywhere between 6:30-7:30pm.
He'll often wake between 3-5am for a feed and then go through until 7am. If he did wake between 3-5am for a feed, that would be considered "sleeping through"?

Honestly in my book no. That is waking for a feed. So not sleeping through. How old is he? At a certain point, unless he's having a growth spurt, he probably doesn't need that feed.

My kid is nearly 3 and I'm still waiting for the elusive 'sleeping through' thing

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I wouldn't consider waking between 3-5 for a feed as sleeping through. I figured out that lots of people do though which explained why their babies all 'slept through' much earlier than mine.

However I would consider any period of at least 8 hours unbroken sleep on a regular basis as sleeping through regardless of what hours it occurred to/from.

We didn't achieve that until DD was at least 12 months and now at 16 months she sleeps 7pm-7am 99% of the time.

I see it as sleeping from when they go to bed to their usual wake up time, with no feeds.

I’d personally class it as sleeping when I’m asleep so I don’t have to get up overnight. So 10-7. But I also see how you could categorise it as a ‘full’ night’s sleep of 7-7. If there’s an overnight feed then that definitely isn’t sleeping through.