When did your non sleeper starr to sleep?

[lancslass17]

Curious to know when your non sleepers slept (without interventions)

My 8 month old ds wakes anything from 3 hourly to hourly won't be settled by dad and I'm back at work now.

He's teething but has been for weeks with still no sign and is working of crawling ( pushing backwards).

I'm hoping and praying once teeth come and he's tiring him self out he will sleep better. Did anyone else find this or am I just kidding myself??

DD1 - 2 years 2 months.

DD2 - Nearer 18 months but she was waking for the day at silly o'clock (3.30 am), it gradually got pushed back later until 6/7 am at 3 years.

Age 5.

DD eldest - 3 years old
DS - he's slept since about 2years 6months. But still wakes at stupid o'clock

DD1 3 years
DD2 at 2 years. Still broken many years on.
You should move out for a couple of years!

When I caved in and let him sleep with me at around 2 years, maybe 3.
I felt drunk with tiredness most of the early years.

We started sleeping training ds1 at about 9 months and did it gradually (with a few pauses for illness and holidays) until he was about 12 months and he then slept a consistent 12 hours a night. I can't remember with ds2 or ds3 as we were too busy and exhausted to do the same consistent sleep training that we did with ds1!

Dd1 2.5, dd2 6 (ouch)

9 months with sleep training but with lots of other nice bedtime routines (massage, books, singing),and alwyas making sure they were a tiny bit awake when they were put in their cot. Consistentcy is key. My sister never did sleep training Or stuck to any sort of method and had nonsleepers til 10 and 11 . In fact her 12 year old still sneaks in every morning at 5!

@lorisparkle what training did you do??

Those of you that mention training is love to know your methods, whether it includes crying or not.

Tia

My first 3 slept through the night from 6 months

Dd4 was 14 Months
Dd5 was 20 Months

It almost killed me but we got there 😅

19 months but is wide awake at 4.30am every day

We sleep trained at 9 months, took 3 nights then she slept through. She then gets ill/teething and we'll have a few weeks of hellish nights until I know she's healthy again and we'll sleep train again which will give us another couple of weeks of sleep before the next bout of illness etc. Not perfect but works for us.

When we sleep-trained at 19 months. Before that he woke 4-10 times a night, we were exhausted!

I wish we'd done it much sooner TBH, at 6-7 months.

4y & 2.5y still waiting

DD, nearly 6 years, when she got a prescription for melatonin

DS, when I sleep trained (I learnt my lesson from DD - not that every child needs sleep training of course but sleep troubles are very common in my family so intervention is needed and better sleep training than drugs!)

Mine were both terrible sleepers. They were both hourly wakers. I didn't do any sleep training apart from night weaning off breastfeeding. Eventually they both started sleeping through at 2.5 and almost 3.

At 2. Although he still only sleeps through 50% of the time at 3 (but is usually quick to settle)

Oh and our day often begins at 4.30am. Gro clock or no gro clock!

Star88 With DS I did controlled crying. I did try pick up/put down and ssh-pat first but they just pissed him off

2.5

About 3 years.

When I stopped breastfeeding, at about 14 months, she started sleeping through about 50% of the time. Plus DH could then do alternate nights with me, so I started getting a decent night's sleep 75% of the time.

Sleep trained at 8/9 months. Slept from 6.30/7-5 fairly consistently. Co-slept from 5am. That stopped working about a month ago at 10.5 months. I've done sleep training again at 5am (really didn't want to do this but being up at 5am wasn't going to work...ds ended up massively overtired very quickly) and within a few nights he's now going until between 6 and 7 with a bit of a whinge around 5 so we're getting there!

@bumblingalongway your post sounds so similar, we did gentle pick
Up put down and shush pat which works up until about 5am. DH refuses to let dc into bed or comfort breastfeed (that could be a thread in itself)

How did you break through the 5am barrier. Baby is not awake and happy at 5 but so so hard to settle back down :(