At what age did your baby/child sleep at least 8 hours uninterrupted

[merrynelly]

I mean with no requirement for you to intervene at all? Clearly I'm desperate for quality sleep on a regular basis and I'm just trying to establish a realistic timeline of how long I will have to wait for that as I have a 6 month old

dc1&2 at around 3 months old
dc3 at 3yo...

1. Probably not what you want to hear but suspect that it's unusual as most of the mums I know had babies sleeping through in the first year

About 8 months.

12 months. I had 4.

Sorry...reliably when DS1 started school at 4 and 10 months. DS2 is just 5 and has weeks where he’s fine and other weeks where he disturbs us every night. But they’re pretty extreme.

About 2.5 years but when we had DD2 and DD1 sleep when to pot.

Dd was 11yrs old.

Ds about 5yrs.

DS did it naturally around 8 months
DD I have sleep trained with controlled crying at 6 mo as she was waking every 45/60 minutes for 2 months.

About age 18/20 months

When she went to school, so 4.5ish.... And that's (sadly) more common than people tend to admit. We only have one.

Reliably, about 5.

6 years.

Well, the first time she did it she was 8 weeks and I’d taken her to a baby music group thing that day. I went back to that group for months, desperate for her to replicate the sleep!

She started reliably sleeping that much from about 9/10 months. Before that she had maybe 2/3 months of just waking once at night for a feed (breastfed).

22 months, for my forst (and not reliably until about a year later).

My second - 5 weeks old. And that's only because I was waking her to feed prior to that.

All you can do is wait, I'm afraid! They'll sleep when they sleep.

2 years and half

I'm not quite sure what you mean by no intervention at all? Do you mean no bedtime feed or cuddle to sleep? I still cuddled mine to sleep until about a year old. Cos I am soft like that.

However, they both went down for the night once they went to bed. By six months, both of them were doing 8pm to 6am. I seem to recall both went through an incessant dummy replacing stage at five months and settled nicely after that ended.

3 months for me. My friend gave me a sleep schedule that I followed religiously which was based on them sleeping through the night at 3 months. DC slept through the night at 3 months on the dot. I can still remember how amazing it felt to have had 8 hours + sleep (obviously after the panic of checking he was still ok). I messaged my friend to thank her...only for her to reply that it had never worked for her!!!!!! I think it's down to the individual child. We were lucky. He's always been a brilliant sleeper apart from when he was teething or ill. But I know I've been lulled into a false sense of security and number 2 is bound to keep me awake for the next 5 years....!

6 months - the moment we moved her into her own room!

From bedtime story and cuddle until after 6am in the morning:
Dc1 3.5 years
Dc2 6 months
Dc3 18 months
Dc4 is 2 and still not experienced it.
I remember every other parent telling me about their 7pm-7am sleepers with Dc1 and I sometimes I would go home and cry as he was relentless and never slept more than 1.5 hours without waking, I was broken. He is 6 now and sleeps very well from 7.30-8pm until I wake him at 7.15 am. Hang on in there.

Dc1 5 years old.
Dt 8 months.

DC1 - 6 weeks
DC2 - 3472 years well that's what it felt like after DC1!

As soon as our daughter moved to her own room she slept through (10 months). We had a suspicion that we were waking her up so we tried it and haven’t looked back!

DC1 did 7 hours around 5 weeks IIRC. I was told to wake him up at the 6 week check as he wasn't growing properly, so it wasn't a good thing with him.
DC2 around 11-12 weeks (I didn't actually use the I slept through the night milestone card as I felt I could hardly tell anyone...)

Insightful to see that other people have good sleepers too. It's not something you broadcast at baby groups etc!

DS1 after a bottle cuddle and settle slept 8 hours at 5 weeks old, moved up to 13 hours sleep at 6 weeks old

DS2, we can't remember as we were sleep deprived until he was 3 and a half. I think he cracked it by age 4.

We did exactly the same with both, but every baby has their own ideas. Good luck, I know how tough it is

Dc1 - 5 weeks (10pm - 6 am)
Dc2 - 7 months (10 pm - 7 am)
Dc3 - 6 months, but from about 8 weeks, she just woke once for a feed and back to sleep