Do babies really sleep through?!

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Do babies really sleep through before the age of 1 without night waking, as in completely sound asleep, no bottle or comfort needed from putting them to bed until the next morning?!

We call it sleeping through but in reality it's about midnight to 7:30. He's 6 months and that's been us since about 7 weeks.

@Rainycloudyday I think the point I went on to have another 4 children was because the book helped me so much. I was really struggling with my first baby until I followed the book.
It had amazing advice in about following a routine (gives you a routine to work to) reassurance techniques for your baby, talks about reflux which my second baby had and I managed to recognise because of information in the book.
If the routine worked on 5 children and they are all happy and healthy then it can only be a good thing.

@Rainycloudyday I still think your post is trying to be nasty with you feigning surprise at how I went on to have another 4 children if I struggled so much with the first. Why would I not go onto have more children if I managed to sort my issues out?

Mine did sleep 7-7 from 13 weeks on. Only have had odd nights with her due to illness or vaccinations. It does happen 😊

@LoveLoveLove2020 I didn’t say the routine wouldn’t work, just that personally I thought it was inappropriate for a very small baby. I’m glad you’re happy with how things have gone for you.

And I do think that the term ‘reassurance techniques’ is designed to sound nice and gentle to the parents, but there’s no getting away from the fact that it’s sleep training and that what a newborn needs for reassurance is cuddles and feeding on demand. And I say that as a big advocate for age appropriate sleep training. I’m glad you’re happy with how things have gone for you and your family but I would strongly caution anyone rushing out to buy this book without a clear understanding that it’s a sleep training manual.

My babies got a lot of cuddles and a lot of feeding. They also got a lot of sleep and were very happy and healthy.
If the book was dangerous or harmed babies in any way I'm sure it would be banned.
Instead the book has helped thousands of children and parents.
The reassurance technique is just as it says. A technique to reassure your baby
As I've said I have 5 happy and healthy children that I followed the routine with.
Yes it is 'sleep training' but I can't see a problem with that.

My DS started sleeping thro7gh around 1p weeks 11-6 then gradually as he got older bedtime came forward and he now does 7:30-6:15ish we have the odd day where he fights bedtime but not often. I'm hoping his little sister will be the same when she arrives .

Yep, all 3 of mine have. We don't really have a set routine through the day in terms of milk, if it's wanted it is given.

My nearly 9 months old baby has very rarely slept for longer than a 2 hour stretch at night till date. I'm living on hope that it improves.
Daytime is usually 2 or 3 naps of 20mins usually.

Mine haven't, DS1 is 2.5 and started sleeping troug about 18 months and DS2 is 1 this month and has never slept through

I posted the above on Sunday and last night they both slept through and had a lie in until 7.30am, so there is a light at the end of the tunnel

@Lauren83 congratulations!

Time for another baby then?

yes.

All mine did. But it slightly depends on what you mean. I used to feed them at 10 pm before I went to bed. I considered 10-7 as sleep through.
I honestly can't remember how old they were when we stopped the 10 pm feed

DC1 - 5 weeks, 10-6. By 8 weeks 10-7
DC2 - 7 months 10-7 (but 0-6 months she woke every hour through the night)
DC3 - 3months 10-7, with occasional night waking. Then 6 months 10-7 consistently. However she continued to wake in the night about once a week until she was 6. She just needed us to take her back to bed every time.

@sunlightflower Absolutely not! I was up 12-1am and again 4.30am. It was nice whilst it lasted