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When did your baby first sleep right through

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Clarashan · 19/11/2018 08:19

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?

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Steelesauce · 19/11/2018 09:00

My 3 kids have taught me it doesn't matter when they do it first, chances are it will change. All mine were fairly reliable by 1 but probably once or twice a week they'd call in the night. Then there's illness, teething, nightmares on top. My mum says once this phase is over, it's up all night worrying what they're upto. Just get used to no sleep Grin

Jackshouse · 19/11/2018 09:01

Oh forgot to add that DD was bottle feed. She stopped waking for milk at 13 months.

GrumpySausage · 19/11/2018 09:03

DS- 7pm to 7am at 9 weeks
DD- 7pm to 7am at 12 weeks

Both combi fed.

(ducks) Grin

TheWickedWitchofWestYorkshire · 19/11/2018 09:06

Eldest - bottle fed with breast milk for 4 weeks then with formula.
Youngest - formula fed from day 1.
Both dc slept 7-7 at around 4 weeks apart from when they were poorly or if they were woken up e.g. by fireworks.

wwonders · 19/11/2018 09:07

5 months which isn't newborn and completely fine

Perfectpeony · 19/11/2018 09:10

Interested in everyone else’s experiences too.

I would class sleeping through the night as around 7pm-7am. So I think we are a long way off.

DD went through a phase of sleeping 9-10pm- 7am at around 8 weeks. But then started waking up several times at 3.5 months and still is at 4.5 months Sad

blueskiesandforests · 19/11/2018 09:12

Dc1 about 11 months reliably.
She was a terrible sleeper when tiny, I didn't realise at the time but she probably had silent reflux - happiest baby in the world if upright, screamed blue murder if put down in a cot or pram. That improved as she got bigger, particularly once she could change her position at will, sit herself up etc. and she also woke less generally after I night weaned at 9 months.

Dc2 about 8 months, but before that he was a clockwork baby, easy to put down to sleep and woke 4 hourly for an efficient feed, which was no trouble at all. Felt he'd read the text books :)

Dc3, 2 years 6 months occasionally, 3 and a half fairly reliably though in fact he still wasnt sleeping through, he was just old enough to understand that if he just couldn't sleep he should put his story CD on quietly and stay in bed, and only wake me if he was ill or scared. I'm not sure he always sleeps through even now he's nearly 8 tbh.

blueskiesandforests · 19/11/2018 09:14

Oh all breastfed.

My kids are early birds so if we have to define sleeping through as until 7am then the answer is 13 years old Grin but of course by then they don't go to bed at 7pm... So 7-7 nope, never ever.

For us sleeping through is 7:30pm - 5:30am.

serenmoon · 19/11/2018 09:22

DC 1 at 14 months from 8-7 but still odd nighttime wake up maybe once a week.
DC2 at 9 months 730-730. Both breastfed. I really don’t think feeding method makes much difference. My friends ff baby is 20 months and still waking twice a night. I think it’s just down to the baby and their body clock.

MachoManRandySavage · 19/11/2018 09:24

I think about 18 months if you mean 7-7

They need to wake in the night when they're that young as they need feeding!

MaMisled · 19/11/2018 09:32

Remains a mystery but all three started sleeping 12 hours straight in 7th week.

wwonders · 19/11/2018 09:33

It's apparently true that there's no health need for a baby to feed at night after 6 months

Mamazita · 19/11/2018 09:36

DS2 still waiting for him to sleep through. He wakes up twice a night

LisaSimpsonsbff · 19/11/2018 09:41

Be prepared for it not to be linear, too! DS did a couple of nine hour stretches at 12 weeks which I was very excited about. He's now 19 weeks and feeding every three hours again...

paige789 · 19/11/2018 09:48

5 months with controlled crying.

iIcouldsleepforaweek · 19/11/2018 09:50

DS - honestly it wasn't until he was 6 years old that he regularly slept all night and I'm not exaggerating. Up and down almost every night

DD - 6 weeks and sleeps 12 hours a night, every night!

Opheliasgoldenwine · 19/11/2018 09:51

8/9 months but did wake for an early feed 6amish

Cyantist · 19/11/2018 10:15

Mine slept from about 8 until 8 from 2 and a half weeks old (apart from when teething or ill). We never tried for this or did anything to establish a routine, she just liked sleeping a lot and luckily it was almost all at night time.

She was EBF.

MrsCharlesBrandon · 19/11/2018 21:39

Dd1 - 10 weeks 9pm - 7am
Dd2 - around 2.5 years
Ds - after he turned 5, and is still up at sparrow's fart 4 years later.

hamburgers · 19/11/2018 21:48

The very first time (as in 7pm-7am) around 4.5 months.

Reliably/every night, from about 7 months, then DD has a regression at 8.5 months for about 3 weeks but back to 7-7 thereafter.

Escolar · 19/11/2018 21:52

DC1 - 12 months
DC2 - 3 months
DC3 - 3 years

All breastfed.

SylvesterTheCat · 19/11/2018 21:59

Even adults don't sleep through the night.

BlueUggs · 19/11/2018 22:03

18 months consistently.

itisitis · 19/11/2018 22:05

Depends what you mean through the night. I did the last feed quite late, around 10:30 and my first child slept until 6am from 12 weeks. Second child would feed little and often, so up every 2 hours both day and night until she was 4 months when I weaned her. She would then have her last big bottle at 10 and sleep until around 6:30.

BroomstickOfLove · 19/11/2018 22:06

About three and a half (years). By which time I had another night-waking baby.

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