Quick poll. How old is your child and how many hours of sleep do you get a night on average?

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I'll start.

7 months, 3-4 hours.

6,4,3,1 - pretty much always 7 hrs unless I stupidly stay awake beyond midnight.

20 months, probably between 3-4 hours broken per night

18 months... 4-6 hours broken sleep. You get used to being tired eventually!

Dc are 4 and 6 - terrible at bedtime, both wake up during the night but at 7am they fall into the deepest sleep ever and have to be shaken awake at 8am

We go to bed about 11, so 8 hours with a few wake ups.

Nearly 4. 6 hours broken sleep. He still wakes frequently and I find it hard to go back to sleep sometimes. He is in his own bed now which is an achievement... but I do have to join him there sometimes (accidentally after settling him mostly!).

8 month old sleeps for 12 hours. I sleep for 8 hours.

Term time...
14 year old sleeps 10pm-6.30am
17 year old sleeps 11pm-6.30pm
50 year old (me) Midnight-6.30pm

Holidays the 14yo and I manage an hour more, 17 year old goes to bed at Midnight but is not up before 11am unless she's working.

3 year old. I'd have 11 hours if I didnt have to work in the evenings. I always get a minimum of 8 though.

9 month old sleeps for 12 hours, usually with 1 wake up (sometimes none). I usually get 7.5 hours, that's how much I had pre baby. However, teething, illness and sleep regressions get in the way of this.

DD is 9.

I rarely have a disturbed night. She has always been a pretty good sleeper, even as a baby - getting her to go to sleep is a another story, however - always been a night owl.

He’s 6 months tomorrow.

I get about 7 or 8. He gets up maybe once or twice max and he’s only up for 5/10 minutes for a quick feed and straight back to sleep.

Mine are 4 and 7. Both sleep 10-11 hours a night, but the older one usually falls asleep an hour or more later than the other so I get about 9 hours out of 24 where they're both asleep.

6 month old. Baby gets 13 hours, I get anywhere between 8 and 10. Currently pregnant again so going to bed v early some nights!

7.5yo, sleeps 9/9.30-8am.
We sleep 11/12-8am.

We coslept until 2.5yo as he was a total cot refuser, but always slept fairly well. Tbh it's all a bit of a blur now

21 month old. I think I get around 5-6 hours a night on average, sometimes more sometimes less.

Ds is 7 and sleep pretty much 7:30 - 7am.

I get 4-6 hours regardless because I’m broken

DS11

As much as I want, he's pretty much self sufficient?!

He likes his sleep more than me, he's good for at least 12hrs

8 months. She does 6.30 - 5.30/6 with a wake up or two.

Taking into account when we go to bed, around 7-8 hours broken once or twice.

Kids are 3 and 5, I get 6-7 hours a night depending on what time I go to bed. Could get more if I went to bed earlier as they both sleep through, just wake up early (6/6.30 am).

Both of my children were terrible sleepers and woke frequently for the first 2-3 years of their lives. Youngest has only been regularly sleeping through since just before she turned 3.

It does get better OP. A lot of people I know had better experiences than me and their kids were sleeping through by 18 months or so.

7&8.

How much sleep I get depends on when I go to bed because they sleep through (one has adhd and doesn't sleep but just stays in their bedroom and reads or plays until they sleep or it's time to get up).

As babies they both slept through from 7-7 from about 2-3 months (the adhd child didn't start having trouble sleeping until they were older and I've never minded the playing etc so long as they don't stop me from sleeping).

3.5 months. 6 hours.

Kids are 18, 14, 11 and 5. I get about 9 hours sleep at weekends (more if dh is off work as he’s an early riser) and between 7-8 through the week.

My youngest generally sleeps for 11.5-12 hours every night, she has to be dragged out of bed for school in the mornings amidst cries of “just 5 more minutes” and will sleep for just as long if she goes to bed late so we let her stay up til 8.30-9pm at the weekend so we get a lie in.

I know I’m lucky to have a good sleeper, the elder 3 spent years waking at 5am no matter what time they went to bed which nearly killed me off! Also, the 5 year old used to be terrible, she woke every 30-60 minutes for 17 hellish bastard months so I think I’ve earned the good sleeping child now 🤣

5 weeks and 18 months - about 3-4 on average as baby has bad reflux

2.4yo. Getting about 6-7 solid hours on good nights, and maybe 4-5 broken hours on bad nights. We pretty much alternate good and bad nights at the moment. 😞

mine are 11, 5, and 9 months and i get around 8 hours - normally 11pm-7am. i’m very lucky that my little girl has slept through from around 4 months, and my two boys go to bed at 8 for the youngest and 10 for the eldest and they both get up between 8 and 9am.