Sleeping through

[addictedtotheflats]

I was wondering if anyone could tell me what happened when their baby "slept through" for the first time. My DS is almost 10 months and since being about 5 months has woke every 1.5-2 hours. I know sleep is developmental and I have no intention of sleep training but did your babies just suddenly sleep through one night or was it a gradual thing. Im going back to work next week and I am one tired Mama. He is bf and on 3 meals a day if that makes any difference.

I sleep trained my youngest at 7 months as I was back at work and couldn’t function. Very straightforward with minimal fuss. Slept 12 hours straight ever since. My eldest slept through from 10 weeks with no intervention. I don’t believe that all children will eventually sleep. I think most need to be taught the skill, like we teach any other skill.

My formula fed first child was about fifteen months before he stopped waking in the night. He normally woke up between three and five am and ended up in with us to go back to sleep. Even at that, teething, being ill and the wind still woke him up. I’m still waiting on number two giving me six hours in a row (five months, also FF). I didn’t want to train as he just gulped air when he cried and made himself sick so was never worth it.

My 9 month old slept through for the first time two nights ago. Previously woke every couple of hours. We did nothing different. He hasn't done it again since. Who knows if he'll ever do it again?! Wish I had advice, OP. I miss my sleep too. Also BF and 3 meals a day.

Thank you for the replies. I guess I will just have to ride it out, im not cut throat enough for sleep training of any description, he will sleep eventually 😂

DS is five months and it has been downhill sleep wise since 4 months.
DD is now 5 and only wakes once or twice.

Though I can just tell DD it’s ok and she goes back to sleep. No getting my boobs out or pumping her legs....

Hi op, I don't believe in sleep training either. My breastfed ds slept through every so often at the age your son is now and when he turned one he started doing it every night. Hope you get more sleep soon

My son randomly started sleeping through the same night he randomly didn't need me to stay with him until he fell asleep (16 months). He's now in a toddler bed and goes to sleep by himself but runs into our bed halfway through the night however no one is disturbed by this.

DD1 was 3.5 years, DD2 was 15 months and DS is 13 months, has slept though twice and can’t see him doing it again any time soon!

DS is 9 months and EBF, been co sleeping since 4 month regression and waking every 2-1.5 hrs generally. Anyway the other night I fed him to sleep then left him alone in the the bed he and I normally sleep in (double mattress on the floor, made safe) and I went and got in with DP. Lo and behold he has started waking a lot less! It does vary but he has done a couple of 6-7 he stretches which is life changing amounts of sleep for me. Are you co sleeping OP? I love it but I have obviously been disturbing him!

Oh and as to whether it just happened or was gradual...
DD1 went through all sorts of ups and downs. When she started sleeping through (at 3.5) it was after a few weeks of gradual retreat when putting her to bed. She’s 6 and never wakes at night now (well she doesn’t disturb us anyway).
DD2 was still waking once or twice a night, then when she was 15 months old we went on holiday and she shared a room with her sister. She slept through for the whole week! When we got home we put them in the same room and she slept through from then.
DS showing no signs of regularly sleeping through at 13 months. Some nights wakes once, some nights 3/4 times. No apparent rhyme or reason to it.

I stopped bf at 14 months and he slept through! Couldn't believe it.

Though I don't like to think of any other mums being exhausted, it's so relieving to see here so many people say their babies didn't sleep through immediately.

DS is 8 months and has never slept through, wakes several times a night and it's a killer. So many people keep saying he should be sleeping now, tell me to sleep train etc but I can't face it. He cries so much. I don't want to cause him so much distress. He'll sleep when he's ready but it's refreshing to see he isn't the only one.

My DS started sleeping through at around 5 months. It just happened, and he's been great since. Only occasionally he will wake during the night but that's usually when he's under the weather/teething

@anothermamaa he will go down in his cot for between 2-3 hours then will not go back in so we co sleep after the first wake up. Have done since birth really. The only saving grace is that he isnt awake for long and I can just plop a boob in his mouth and he will go back to sleep. Its the disturbed sleep which is the worst!! I will just muddle on and hope he sleeps through by 3 😂

Both mine were breastfed up to 2 and neither liked sleep. My son now 6 would sleep no longer than an hour for 6 months and never napped longer than 30 minutes in the day. He improved at 12 months and gradually slept through. I have to drag him out of bed now. Daughter wasn't as bad but woke for a feed every couple of hours until 18 months and was always a battle to make her nap in the day. She's slept through reliably from 18 months from 7-7 which has been life changing! I went back to work with both at 13 months so feel your pain. I think it happened suddenly but can't remember as was so exhausted. My daughter is 2 and a half now and sometimes I have to drag her out of bed! Non sleepers are normal.