When do babies start sleeping through the night?

[Humma1995]

My daughter is almost 8 month and has never slept more than 2-3 hours at a time let alone sleep through the night. She wakes up screaming bloody Murder everytime she wakes up and the only way to settle her is to give her the bottle. So my question is at what age did your child drop the night time feeding and sleep at the very least till 6 am without waking up at night even once?

Dc1 - slept through for the first time at 12mo, slept through consistently at 2yo although even now at nearly 3yo he is still prone to bad nights!
Dc2 - 7mo and has already slept through a handful of night, wakes to feed about 1-2 times on average but feeds are very short and he re-settles easily.
They are all different!

The tiptoers don’t usually do it out of choice - they find they have to because their child is disturbed by certain noises. No one deliberately makes their lives more difficult in that way. My son woke up whether there was noise or not

First child 10 months, second child 2.5 years.

Dc1 was 7 weeks old dc2 is 7 years old and still wakes most nights but was over a year before we got our first occasional fluke full sleep through

23 months here

I feel for you though, it's shit. Tbh although it sounds awful to say DS was 2.5, I don't think I was ever as sleep deprived as at the point you are when you have to prepare bottles in the night etc. I also found my body adjusted to very little sleep and I felt less tired. Not sure if that's helpful or just depressing!

When we sleep trained.

With me it took a while before I could sleep more than 3 hours at a time as I was so used to waking

13 months, about a month after she started walking confidently and literally the same week as she dropped to one nap a day. I’ve no idea if that was a coincidence or not!

Now nearly 18 months and started having nightmares, so that’s fun 😩

My LG has been sleeping 6+ hours for a couple of weeks now. She's 3 months old. I'm hoping it's not just a phase haha but & i am dreading the 4 month sleep regression.

Secretly hoping she takes after me. My mum said I was sleeping through the night at 6 weeks & she never had any problems with me. My brother on the other hand was nearly 3 before he slept through.

All babies are different.

Occasionally from 7 months when we moved her to her own room. Reliably maybe from 18 months or so? But even then you still have periods of bad nights with teething, illness etc.

Mine was like yours, slept much longer after I stopped BF him at night, about 10 months. Until then not more than 2 hours sleep in a row, fed every wake up. I just can't imagine the lives of the PP who had babies that slept from weeks old! I think yours is young to stop night feeds but obviously other babies do fine without so just an opinion. I know you're exhausted but looking back I know mine still needed the feeds and I felt I did right by him. It was a change in night behaviour and instinct that told me when he really didn't need the night feeds anymore and it was making his sleep worse and he was tired and grumpy. I feel for you, good luck.

Mine woke every 45 min sleep cycle for 8 months. Would only breastfeed back to sleep. She wasn’t hungry, just using me to settle.

I lost my shit and did the sleep training. At that point I couldn’t be a good mum and I was terrified of DH dying in a car accident cause by tiredness on his commute. Decided if she woke after 1am I’d give her a bottle which she took but then put her back to bed.

It took 3 nights. The first night was the worst but collectively she cried less than a normal night. The third night she fell asleep in under a minute and she’s slept through for a solid 12 hours ever since.

Best thing I’ve ever done. I’d do it again. I was VERY judgemental about it before hand though.

My 3 year old doesn’t sleep through the night. None of mine have slept through before the age of 2.

2 years for DD1.

I can't remember what age for DD2, but it was similar, and she would sometimes wake up at 3.30am for the day!

Whenever they fucking feel like it, which is generally some time between "birth" and "never". (Sorry.) Generally by age 5 or so you can train them not to bother you when they wake up in the night though.

Both of mine were somewhere around 18 months/2 years when they fairly reliably slept through. My younger is just 2 and will still occasionally have a bad night, but if there is a pattern of wakes at particular times setting in I set quite firm boundaries. And once your child is old enough, I do think sometimes you have to put your own wellbeing on the scale and do some sleep training.

DS - 9 weeks
DD - 3.5 years
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Child one 20 months, child two 23 months.

Varies. Dc1 was 6 weeks ( I know!!) dc2 ( twin 1) 5 months and dc 3 ( twin 2) was 13 months. I often joke that sliding scale is why there will never be a dc4 🤣

I really feel for you OP. My 2nd was exactly the same. I can barely remember most of his first year because I was so out of it with sleep deprivation. He woke every hour for months and months, then every two hours when he was around one. He wanted feeding every time and as I am BF only I could do it but even if my DH went in instead of me to see if giving him a cuddle might work, DS screamed even louder until I appeared.

I was a zombie for a really long time, it's so so hard. He didn't start sleeping through reliably until about 22 months. He's just turned 2 so think I'm still catching up on all my missed sleep. I still go to bed every night dreading a potential waking in the night. Fingers crossed he continues.....

I hope you don't have to wait as long as me until your daughter gives you more sleep

12 months after managing to drop the last night feed with cuddles instead.

They are all different, my dd just turned 4 and she still doesn't predictably sleep through the night. Some nights she sleep from 7pm till 5:30am, but most nights she'll wake once for the loo still. Other nights, if unsettled or has a bad dream she might wake 3 times. I remember googling when pregnant and seeing that most babies sleep through the night by 3-4 months old... this was certainly not how it went for me!

Mine is 7 months and wakes once or twice for a breastfeed. He has never slept through, his record stretch was 8 hours.

It's not really something consistent where they get to a magical age and then sleep through although I can completely understand why parents with young babies would question it! My daughter slept through once she was reliably on solids BUT with every illness, episode of teething, growth spurt etc comes sleepiness nights. She is now 21 months and hasn't slept through for the past 6 weeks as she is teething the big back molars that just seem to keep on coming.

Also I did sleep train him at 5.5 months as he was previously waking every 1 to 2 hours so I feel your pain.