When did your baby first sleep right through

[Clarashan]

Trying to get an average age of when a newborn will sleep right through the night. Do bottle fed babies do it quicker then breastfed?

At about 20 months 😂

Newborns aren’t meant to sleep through! Waking up protects them from SIDS. It’s when they fall into a deep sleep that they ‘forget’ to breathe. Hence the advice of not making them too comfy (on back, cool room etc) which helps them to wake up through the night.

DD1- 3.5
DD2- 15 months

PP is right though, babies aren’t supposed to sleep through the night, biologically.

(That’s 3.5 years by the way)

Ds is 3.5 years, still waiting.

Ds1 was about 15 months but still not reliable at 22 months. Ds2 is 10m and hasn't slept through once yet!

Still waiting at nearly 13 months. DS wakes every 2 hours.

What do you mean by sleep through the night? Because people mean wildly different things by that. Someone told me their baby slept through the night and I was a bit jealous and then it turned out he slept 8-4am, which is indeed a long stretch of sleep but isn't through to any morning I recognise! A lot of the time when people boast about their babies sleeping through the night either the details aren't so great, or they mean 'they sleep through the night when they aren't teething/ill/overtired from the day' (ie they've slept through the night about twice but their parents insist they sleep through the night and any night they don't is the exception)

DD 1 used to sleep from midnight to 5 am at 6 weeks, breast fed with bottle top up before bed.
I called this sleeping through the night.
DD 2 at 20 months in her baby book, I have written ‘we live in hope’. Finally slept through at 2

6 hrs a night by 3mths. I got into a habit of putting them down and a feed just before we went to bed, that way we got a reasonable amount of sleep.

Dd - 4 weeks from 11pm - 5am
Ds - 2 years

DD did one night at 11 months, and about a month of sleeping through at 22 months old. It did not continue. She is over two now and was up 6 times last night for no discernible reason. It's torture

Still waiting at 4.5

Dc1 7 years
Dc2 6 weeks
Dc3 4 years
Dc4 4 weeks 7-7

DD was 10 months and slept from 7pm-7am, it coincided with when she started walking. She's now 13months and will sleep till 8:30 as she's very very active.

DD slept through at about 12 weeks, shortly after I gave up on breastfeeding and went to feeding, and mostly slept through thereafter

Got the breastfeeding to work with DS, and I think he slept through occasionally from 4 months, but woke once a night until about 10.5 months when he dropped the night feed. If I'd really not been able to stand being woken I probably could have tailed off the night feed earlier, but a short wake once a night was OK (also, I'd been made redundant from my job by then, so I didn't have to be awake all day!)

Well, they weren’t babies that’s for sure

Agree with PP, babies aren’t meant to sleep through and no it doesn’t make any difference which way you feed your baby. I’ve known ff babies who’ve not slept through for years and BF babies who’ve slept through from 6 weeks and everything in between.

Have a read of this from Kellymom

Both of mine did it once at 4 months then had sleep regressions.

6yo still wakes up and comes into our room 9/10 nights.

Nearly 4yo has once spent the whole night in his own bed without waking (and that was last week).

I define sleeping through the night as from baby's bedtime (say 7) until an acceptable time in the morning (say 6 or just before). Not necessarily completely asleep or quiet but not needing us. DD started doing it most nights from around her 1st birthday, more reliably from 19/20 months. DS is 15 months and the best he has done is til 4am. He's usually up twice a night.

Anecdotally bottle/formula fed do sleep younger but I know a few exclusively FF who still don't sleep through and they are at school!

Mines 10 months and still hasn't, most he has done is 4 hours, he usually wakes 3-4 times a night but does go back to sleep very quickly with his dummy or a bit of milk but he just can't stay asleep

Around 4 months. Twins! And both sleep amazingly. 630-630. Sometimes I sleep 10 hours a night . I sleep better now than pre baby.

Theyve had regressions . Or when they're sick they wake up but cuddles when sick and with regressions have done controlled crying . I never do anything i'm not comfortable with. Happy mum happy babies.

Mine were bottle fed from day one.

All mine slept for a full night at some point while we were still in the hospital it didn't last!
DC2 and DC4 both slept 6 hours a night from being a couple of weeks old.
DC1 was about 5 months but had a hideous phase around 11 months of screaming most of the night.
DS3 was about 2 before I could confidently put him in bed and not plan on him waking until at least 5am and 4 before he would sleep until 7am. He has had night terrors, sleep walking, sleep laughing, making a picnic at 2am, you name it he's done it!!

On average formula fed babies do wake less in the night - most sleep research mentions this as a variable. While they are still waking for feeds it's a lot more disruptive for their parents, though, which is why some studies show that mothers of newborns get more sleep if they breastfeed - they wake up about the same number of times but are awake for much less time each feed.

We had an odd random night at six months but none again until 2.5 but they are still rare. When I say sleep through I really mean she wakes and self settles but I always wake when she wakes up.