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?

9 months and 15 months. Both coincided coincidentally (?) with stopping breast feeding. But if you’re already bottle feeding then I don’t know the answer. I guess all babies are different.

Even adults don’t sleep through the night most of the time, we just don’t worry too much when we wake up and get back to sleep easily, many of us don’t even realise we wake which where this myth of sleeping through all night comes in. I wake up at least once every night, often twice. It’s normal.

It’s also normal to be quite tired when your child wakes you up several times a night because they need you. My son’s wakefulness was the more extreme end of normal. I accepted it and managed the tiredness as best I could but it didn’t stop me wondering when I might be able to sleep for more than about 20 minutes at a time. It’s normal.

@Babdoc I did the same! First time dd1 slept through she dropped off at between 10 and 11 as was typical and I woke at 9am, she was in a moses basket next to the bed and I was terrified and woke her with a gasp of horror! Until that night she was still waking about 3 to 4am for another bout of feeding.

Great sleeping may just be luck, I suspect it is, but my dd1 was an epic cluster feeder and I can't help but wonder if that actually helped. She was a bigger baby too. My twins weren't bf so didn't do the latched to my breast from 5pm to 10pm thing that their sister did, I feel that made a big difference.

Been very lucky with both of mine, DS was sleeping through from about 9 weeks, every night by 12. Was expecting DD to be the opposite but much the same really, she throws in a curveball 5am wake up every now and again just to prove she can plus teeth coming in. I seriously take my hat off to anyone who has 2 years broken sleep, id be a wreck.

DD1 was 8 days old the first time she slept through and continued to do so most nights after. DD2 is coming up to 4 months and has slept through every single night from 6 weeks. I fully appreciate how lucky I am though and am under no illusion that it is anything I have or haven't done. Waiting for the 4 month sleep regression to hit with DD2 any day now!

Aww, I'm crying reading this. It seems like once you have a bad sleeper on your hands, it will be like this for a while.
Unless you sleep train, but that's a different story.
There MUST be something that the good sleepers are doing differently?
Can I launch a little quiz?

Please respond only if your child is a good sleeper (which - in my dictionary - means sleeping stretches longer than 5-6 hours and not waking up before 5:30am).

1. Baby's age:

2. Nap situation (hours in a day):

3. Feeding situation (BF, formula, solids, how much):

4. Sleeping situation (own room, same room different bed, co-sleeping):

5. Room temperature:

6. Sleeping outfit:

7. Bedtime (exact time):

8. Feng shui of the room (head of bed turned to the north, east etc):

9. Bedtime routine elements

10. Sleep elements (complete darkness or dim light? White noise? Dummy?)

11. Anything else you consider important

Hugs and kisses from a sleep deprived mother of a 9 month old xx

1. 7 months
2. 4 x 45 minite naps so 3 hours
3. BF on demand, lots of solids. Feeds 1 or 2 tines at night but does initial 6 to 8 hour stretch
4. Own room
5. 18 degrees ish, varies a bit
6. summer - vest and sleepingbag, winter - vest, bodysuit and sleeping bag
7. 7.30ish depending on when last nap was
8. head of bed is west lol
9. dinner at 6pm, 50% time do bath, get him changed, lullabies, bf, husband puts baby down awake
10. complete darkness, loud white noise, no dummy
11. Key thing is to put him down awake. Sorry we found that sleep training was essential, before this he woke every 1 to 2 hours. It didn't take much crying though just a couple of nights. Now he cries a bit when my husband puts him down but he isn't left alone to cry and is comforted.

Age 6. Not kidding. Dd was a nightmare, sleeps for Britain as a teen though

Hasn't happened yet, she's 13 months. We had a brief, blissful week around 11 months when she only woke up once or twice a night but then she decided to cut tooth after fucking tooth and it all went tits up.