When did your DC start consistently STTN?

[Jellybabie3]

I'd love to know as a general survey of people as this group is obviously inundated with sleep problems.

Please state age they nailed it consistently (not one offs)

If they are bf or ff

Whether they did it by themselves

DD 4 1/2 months, ebf, needed to have a very brief winge as she settled herself.

DS almost 2... also ebf, needed help to get back to sleep and we would have ended up with terrible sleep associations if we hadn't been really strict. Will scream until he is sick so CIO type sleep training doesn't work, he needed a very gradual retreat approach.

Twin 1 slept 6:30pm to a dream feed at 11pm and through to 7am at 11 weeks (5 weeks corrected).
Twin 2 did the same at 14 weeks (8 weeks corrected).

Dropped the dream feed at 7 months and they slept 6:30pm-7:30am. Both formula fed.

DS1 bf for 19 months - 7 years for absolute consistent sleeping through

DS2 bf for 30 months - still not consistent at 5 years, but generally does, or falls back to sleep pretty quickly in our bed.

As long as everyone gets lots of sleep we decided to stop worrying about it a long time ago!

DD1 was premature ar 32 weeks and was FF every 3 hours and continued to wake every 3 hours until she was 3.5 :/ currently DD2 is 19 weeks and has slept 11 hours every night since 5 weeks old. She is combination fed and has a 7oz bottle of formula every night before bed....so far so good but im aware that could all change lol!

FF DD started sttn at 11 months. We didn't do anything, she just decided on her own so I strongly believe it's a developmental thing.

Ds is also FF and nearly 4 months...no sign of him sleeping through anytime soon.

Mine is 8 months and now sleeps through with a dream feed. We got a sleep consultant and did the gradual retreat method and stopped feeding to sleep. He is still breastfed but am now introducing formula as I'm going back to work soon. He hates it so I don't think it's had any impact on sleep! More now that he can go to sleep himself, without a feed. I was on my knees by seven months, as he was waking up every 1-2 hours.

DS1 was breastfed until 6 months and started sleeping through about 2 years. DS2 was breastfed until 3 and slept through about 3.5 years. DS 3 is 18 months and still breastfeeding and nowhere near sleeping through.

@Jellybabie3 no I'd give her a sippy cup of water (the 360 one that doesn't leak so I could leave it in her cot), she'd have a sip, maybe a cuddle then roll back over to sleep. Think she couldn't be bothered to wake up for just water anymore so started sleeping through!

Three and a half years old. It totally sucked. I / we definitely made some big mistakes and if I could go back and give myself some advice I would.

Dd1 bf aged 2, when I stopped bfing, woke 2 hourly before that.

Dd2 bf slept really well other than waking for feeds until 5 months old, then teething meant lots of night time wakings (sometimes up for 3 hours in the middle of the night) until around 17 months when she stopped bfing. Although she still wakes up occasionally with bad dreams now aged 6.

Ds bf until he was 3, only woke for feeds and went quite a while between feeds quite early on, slept through from 18 months (was only waking once a night from 15 months). He was my most chilled out baby.

DD1 18 months (mix fed)
DD2 2.2 years (exclusively bf)

DD1 only woke once from 11 months ish.

DD2 only woke once or twice from 15 months.

14 months for DS and 3y for DD.

We had a sleep consultant for both babies.
DD1 mixed fed slept 7-7 with a dream feed at 10pm from 12 weeks
DD2 formula fed never had a dream feed due to severe reflux. Woke for a feed at 2am until about 5 months. Slept through the night consistently from 6 months.

6 months
Ff
Slept through 7-7 or 8-7 some nights 9/10 nights since
2.5 years now

9-7 at 10 weeks old. Sometimes woke up earlier.

We went through four month sleep regression and he very occasionally wakes in the night now but most of the time can be resettled quickly. He’s nearly two and sleeps 12 hours a night.

I don’t know what we did - he just did. I combo fed for about a month and then he was formula fed only. Weaned at five months.

He was a dreadful napper for the longest time but that seems better now as well.

I know I have been very very lucky.

I've won the thread 😂

DC1, 9 months.

DC2.......SEVEN YEARS. Health stuff involved (I'm hedging because haven't name-changed for this and it's identifying), but after surgery etc it's actually sacro cranial therapy that's fixed it.

My 16 month has just started sleeping through now. He napped well from 6 months, he was breastfed for 6 months.

Wow what a mixed bag. Some people have Got lucky and the rest are not so....

DS pulled off a cracking sleep til 4.15am whoop so getting closer all of a sudden. Doesnt explain why i still woke up a zombie....i guess i have some catching up to do!

I think the moral of the story on this thread is probably 80% of the babies worked it out for themselves. Worth bearing in mind

My bottle formula fed DS was sleeping from about 10pm-6am from about 5 months then gradually went longer slowly. I'd say a proper 7/8pm-6/7am at about 10/11 months