When did your baby’s sleep improve for good?

[Marghe87]

My LO is 7 weeks old and seems to have settled into a good sleeping pattern at night (only wakes up to feed usually around 1am and then again around 4:30/5am). I am deeply hoping that it will get even better over time but I am not that naive and am aware of the fact that sleeps regressions exist and things can get much worse instead of improving. I was just curious to know what others have experienced. When did your DC start to sleep better at night? Are sleep regressions something every baby has to go through or is it possible not to have them?

[Mamabear12]

All babies are different. My first slept through the night 7pm to 7am with no night wakings from 6 months! My second not until 13 months (and we had to let him cry a little). But he literally cried once or twice in the night for a minute before falling back asleep. After 3 days he slept through and didn’t do this. My third is sleeping through from 9 months! She is 10 months and I fully breastfeed.

[shesgonebatshitagain]

Sorry should add the DD now aged almost 5 is a great sleeper now and I can’t believe it

[shesgonebatshitagain]

DS1 - amazing sleeper from day one. Woke for a feed I fed him he fell asleep even cluster feeding he slept well. Not a night in bed with me when I’d finished feeding him I put hi back in his crib / cot. Aged six now he’s still a wonderful sleeper
DD - totally shit. Wouldn’t even have a bottle of expressed milk. Woke every two hours until aged 2.5 for a feed. Very difficult but made worse as I resisted co sleeping which in hindsight would have been great
DS2- is almost 3 and until about 33 months was utterly diabolical sleepers I have had one full nights sleep which was the one. Gift I’ve been away from him. Still breastfeeding like e a baby but two months ago his sleep improved. I have slept with him most every night since he was born and still do but he’s now asleep for 8 instead of midnigh

[Mummyme87]

My eldest (now 6) started to improve around 11months. He was always shit at sleeping.

My youngest (now 2.5) was fairly good up until 12weeks. Thought we had struck gold with one, max two wake ups. He was horrendous until about 2yrs, and he still doesn’t always sleep through now

[RowanAlong]

Seven weeks old is so young! Little one’s sleep ‘pattern’ will just keep evolving as she goes from baby to toddler to young child. Regressions happened with both of ours - just go with it, accept it and take every little opportunity to look after yourself too xx

[MB90]

My baby was doing the same as yours at 7 weeks. He deteriorated hugely between 6and 9 months (awake every 45 mins) until we did sleep training. Sorry to tell you you’re probably doing the easy but at the moment! Good luck

[buddy79]

DS1 slept through from 14 mo / sleep was always shit (long wakings everybody 2 1/2 hrs), got better by itself around 9 months (down to 2 wakings), worse again at 12 mo, I night weaned and he was sleeping through within a fortnight.
DS 2 is nearly 18 mo and still waking at least 3 times. Was waking 2 hourly for a spell 6-7 months and improved since then, but obvs still quite rubbish!

[SleepWellBeast]

DC 1 slept through from 12ish weeks
DC 2 slept through from 8ish weeks
DC 3 slept through from 18 months and aged almost 3 still an early riser

Talk about being lured into a false sense of security!

[CheesePleaseLoueese]

DC1- 9 months
DC2- 13 months
DC3- still only tiny (3 months old) and currently on around 2 wake ups per night....

[Muddypuddlesinthewoods]

Dc1 18 months before regularly sleeping through.
Dt improved from weaning at 6 months and regularly slept through from 7 months.

[MooChops89]

My 2.5 yo DD has always been a brilliant sleeper, from around 3 months old, and never went through any of the usual sleep regressions. She did have a blip for a few months during lockdown just before my DS was born but thankfully overcame it, now sleeps 12h a night and still occasionally naps in the day.
DS is nearly 4 months old and only wakes once in the night for a feed (although the actual time varies). We will see what happens with him, I doubt I'll get lucky twice

[firstimemamma]

10 months.

[WunWun]

Mine didn't sleep through the night until she was 4 and didn't sleep more than two hours in one go until she was 2.4.

[eurochick]

Mine slept through at 19 months. That first year and a half was pretty brutal.

[iwishiwasonhol]

honestly about 4 once she started nursery ,shes now a teenager and i cant get her out of bed

[beela]

Ds was sleeping well at 7 weeks (waking a couple of times a night), but hit the 4 month regression with a vengeance and didn't look back. There was no pattern. Nights were like a magical mystery tour, and he didn't sleep through until he was 5 years old and worn out from school.

At 7 weeks I'd just take what you can get, there's no way of knowing or predicting whether you'll be one of the lucky ones or not.

[Ragwort]

My DS slept well from Day 1 , we were obviously very lucky but he never went through a sleep regression period, maybe your DC will be the same? We did have a very strict routine, I know routines aren't liked on Mumsnet but it clearly worked for us (I never had a second child so I don't know what would have happened if I had ).

[Thedogshow]

Honesty, at about 3.5 years old. Sorry. But I believe some people have less annoying children.

[Lazypuppy]

My DD has consistently slept well aince about 12 weeks, she's 2.5yo now

[ShirleyPhallus]

DD slept beautifully as a newborn. We were very smug ;)

Then 4 month sleep regression hit and she never went back. Spent the next 2.5 months waking every 45 mins-2 hours. We had about 3-4 nights of her sleeping for 4/5 hours at a time and were pathetically grateful but it always went back.

We started sleep training a few weeks ago and now she sleeps 7-7. You’ll get a lot of advice here on co-sleeping but it didn’t work for us, sleep training did.

If you can bed in good habits now you’ll set up a good base for going forward but nothing is promised in infant sleep, sadly

[Yesterdayforgotten]

Dc1 didn't sleep through consistently in own bed until 2.4 and went through every regression known to man. Dc2 so far hasnt had any regressions and started sleeping through from 5 months (before this only woke for feeds) and sleeping through in own room from 6 months. It really is true when they say they're all different.

[KitKatastrophe]

Oh incidentally the one who didnt sleep though until 19 months was waking at 1am and 4am when she was 10 weeks old. It's better to just expect they'll get worse, then you're not disappointed.

[KitKatastrophe]

About 19 months i think. She had good periods and bad periods but overall was never great (only slept through once before 19 months)
However I do have friends whose babies slept through reliably from 12 weeks or so. They all formula fed their babies which seems to make a difference.

[FourPlasticRings]

All infant sleep is a phase, OP. You should expect regressions. Look for the first around four months- the vast majority of good newborn sleepers go through this in a noticeable way because it's a shift in how they sleep. It's development, but looks like a backwards step.

[peachgreen]

4 months saw a big improvement to just 2 wakes, then 6 months we went down to 1 at 3am, and then 8 months she started sleeping through and has done ever since (she's now 2.5). We didn't have any of the normal sleep regressions and any she did have (usually because she was ill) didn't last longer than 3 or 4 days. We did work really hard to teach her to sleep by herself though which I think helped a lot. Plus a dummy on a short clip!