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?

Every child is different so could be at any point. My son is disabled and at almost 22 years old, has never slept through the night. He paces about till the early hours. My daughter slept through from about 8 months but she is an early riser always has been.

My daughters 3 next month and still wakes EVERY night. It is usually only once so it is much easier.
Shes always been a terrible sleeper though, I think some children just are. As a baby I remember being so so desperate just to sleep but hang in there it improves. I'm still hoping those days are coming!!

My DS dropped night feeds at 5 months and slept from 7.30pm to 7am around 8 months. As PP have said though every baby is different!

First was somewhere around 2.5 years I think. 2nd is now 21 months and has just slept 9pm to 7am last two nights... so I have my fingers crossed!
Good luck. Sleep deprivation is torture.

It depends!

Do you mean them not waking at all or not getting you up?

DD was 2.5y when she started letting me sleep through every night. She does still wake though, just gets out of bed for a little drink of water which I leave by the bed, then gets back in and settles herself off to sleep again (she’s very nearly 3 now). I can see her do it on the monitor, not every night but about 3 out of 7. I feel weirdly proud when I see her do it!

I think back to how many people asked when she was a tiny baby “is she sleeping through the night yet?” Laughable!!! It almost seems cruel that people kept and kept asking when she sometimes only went 45 minutes before the next wake up.

They don,t. (well mine anyway.)

3 months

4 months after some self settling support. Had a few regressions and Illnesses which knock him for a few days here and there but he’s pretty reliable 6.30-6.30 now at 13 months.
He still does wake up sometimes though, just faffs about in his cot and goes back to sleep eventually. Them being able to get themselves to sleep is the key and that is luck of the draw for the most part!

About 8 weeks with both of mine. I had them in a cot beside my bed so they felt secure and knew I was there. They were both bottle fed, and in those days (30 years ago) we started solids early - mine had little bits of yogurt and mashed potato at 8 weeks and 9 weeks respectively. So I suppose they were never being woken by hunger.
I also used dummies with both of them. If they woke at night, they groped about to find the dummy that had fallen out by their face, and popped it back in with a satisfied wee grunt, then sucked themselves back to sleep!

The first time my DD slept through, I woke with a shock at 8am, convinced she must have died in the night. I prodded her. One beady eye opened, scowled at me, and closed again, as she tried to get back to sleep!

DS1 7 mths, DS2 don’t ask!

He was the reason why there was never a DC3!

Dd went through loads of phases.... first slept through at 3 months but then had several sleep regression etc over the months / years.
She’s nearly 5 and has started really struggling with sleep during lockdown.

Ds started sleeping through 2 weeks ago, at 11 months, with gentle sleep training. He was waking every couple of hours and feeding/comfort sucking for a minute and I ended up co-sleeping a lot as it was easier. But when dd started struggling I couldn’t manage them both so I decided to focus on sleep training ds.

12 months, when I sleep trained and night weaned.

My eldest was six years (yes, years) old, but I believe that’s not typical! Youngest was probably around 8 months.

Aged around 3.5 years.

My 8 month old wakes 2-3 times at night to feed. We BF and bed share so it’s not disruptive fortunately, she just latches on an I go straight back to sleep usually.
I don’t expect her to sleep through any time soon with the regressions etc. I don’t believe in sleep training though and I also don’t believe on witholding milk or comfort from a tiny person. Just couldn’t do it, they are small for such a short time. I had 41 years of sleeping well, a few shit years isn’t going to hurt me.

Three kids, first two were sleeping through by age 2. The other one is 2.5 and still not sleeping through.
They get there when they get there. It’s tiring!

About 6 years....,,

Also agree with Megan. I don’t sleep train and I feed them TIL they grow out of night feeds, usually around 17 months

16 month old, wakes 3 times on a good night 8-10 on a bad night average about 5

First baby and he slept through at two months, we had a two week blip at four months and now at five we are back to sleeping through.

Once we get a blackout blind for his room we are evicting him as we wake him up upon going to bed (he goes up two hours before us with a monitor).

Slept through since the week she turned 5 months (7pm - 6:30am) and she’s now 10 months.

DD slept through really early for about two months and then stopped for a while and has now been back to sleeping through since a year. She was having night feeds up till a year, although just one for the last few months. She's always been a good sleeper though in the sense that even when she was waking for a night feed it was 10 mins and then back to sleep.

DD1 reliably slept 10 - 6ish from when she was about 3 months
DD2 was about FOUR YEARS before we got a decent night's sleep out of her.

We do co-sleep now though. No idea if she would wake up in her own bed or not but not inclined to risk it when we've got a good thing going