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

I'm hoping you are attracting parents of the best and worst sleepers to this thread. My DD is just six months and I’m beginning to wonder if there’s any end in sight!
She was reliably sleeping 6/7 hours from her 7pm bedtime and then waking every 3 hours until 6am but we just had leap 5 and she appears to be broken again with two hourly wake ups after 12.
I do suspect that breastfeeding prolongs the endless night wakings but I’m not game to switch to FF for that reason alone!

15 months old (when I stopped bfing)
I now have a 2 week old DD2 and am back to the hourly wakings - oh the joys!!! Hopefully this one will surprise me and start sleeping through by 3 months (wishful thinking I know!!)

DS, 5 months old
DD, 14 months. I was utterly fed up of it

Dd1 - around 12 months
Dd2 - nearly 3 and has only slept through a handful of times. Still wakes at least once every night. Normally for the potty.

3 months

6 months for a full 12 hours sleep - but from Day 1 he slept 7am - 7pm with one very quick night feed and straight back to sleep - no cuddling/feeding to sleep & own room from one month (yes, I know it's against the current guidelines) we had a very strict routine - probably just down to good luck though.

With my first about 20month, second is 26 months and still doesn’t

Dc1 was 3.5 before reliably sleeping through.

Dc2 was 8 weeks

It's just luck of the draw I'm afraid

Around 18 months roughly for both dc (with intervention - had to pat them to sleep and allow them to cry for brief periods), but then they both had phases of waking later on for various reasons (eg nightmares, feeling lonely etc). Ds2 is now 6 and still wanders in to our room occasionally if he happens to wake up. He will go back to his own bed but half the time we just let him crawl in.

@Bellabelloo You don't happen to have that to hand now?

5 or 6 years.

When I stopped bf, so three months for DC1 and four months for DC2.
They were in their own rooms too by this point.
Never experienced any 'regression' unless they were ill.

I should add that they both went to bed at 7pm like clockwork and went to sleep pretty easily and would sleep without waking for around 7-8 hours by around 6 months but would wake around 2/3am and sometimes again at 5, then sleeping on until 7.30/8am, so it didn’t do much to help my sleep! They did sleep a lot - but still woke when I was asleep!

DD is 9 months old next week and has been mixing it up between one waking or no wakings for the last couple of weeks. This morning marks the 5th night in a row that she has slept through (8am - 6am) so I am very quietly hoping she’s cracked it....

(Now I’ve said that I’ve guaranteed myself a sleep regression starting tonight, right? )

1 and then it went downhill til 4;
5 and still waiting
2 and ok if I ignore that she comes into bed with us in the night (so I get 8 hours uninterrupted, even if she doesn’t).

DC1 - 14 weeks
DC2 - 4.5 years

Both EBF until 14 months.

DS1 - age 2 (formula fed from 6 weeks)

DS1 - he’s 6 weeks old and incapable of going more than 1.5 hours unless he’s in the sling. He’s done the odd 4 hours in the day in the sling. I’m holding out zero hope for him and absolutely will be sleep training if he doesn’t improve by 6mo or so. He is bottle fed breastmilk.

DS is 5 and I'm still waiting.

Two and a half

Dd1 - 6 weeks
Ds1 - has never slept a full night in his life. He was 2 a few weeks ago.
Dd2 - sleeps through most nights now at 10 months.

DS - 8 months
DD - 6 weeks but we’re going through a rocky patch now at 6 months so who knows if it’ll return!

Loving the variation here! Something of a salve looking back. DC1 age 6ish, DC2 occasionally from 2.5, most nights from 4. DC2 slept through before DC1 did despite the age gap!

Even if you have a poor sleeper, they do gradually improve. DS 18 months now mostly has a proper 5-7 hour stretch after midnight. He goes to sleep sometime between 8:30pm and 9:30pm ( we usually put him to bed at 8:30 but if he’s not ready for sleep to takes ages). So we’re down to one wake up! (Most nights) At 6months he was still waking around once every 3hours...

And having a poor sleeper was way less stressful when I stopped telling people about it and decided I wasn’t doing anything wrong, he just isn’t a good independent sleeper. I also share dealing with the nightwaking with DP and have left DS with DP overnight a couple of times so I could get a proper sleep at my mum’s place! I wasn’t ready to do that at 6 months though.

Three months here, but it wasn't forever - he slept really well 3-6 months but then weaning seemed to upset his stomach and teething really kicked in, and we had a lot of nighttime wake ups. I did stop feeding him in the night at 3 months though, he didn't seem to want or need it. He's now 2 and goes through phases of sleeping well and then waking up a lot for a few weeks.

All children are different, you just never know what you'll get. Ours generally sleeps well but is hard work in other ways.