Honestly when did your baby start sleeping through the night?

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When did your baby start sleeping through the night?

He's 12 and often gets up for a wee in the night and occasionally wanders in to say hello.. we stopped having to be involved around 4.5 but then we attempted taking him out of nappies at night when he was 6... so that messed things up again.. he is our third and if he was the first I am not sure there would have been any others!

DD1 still doesn't at 13 years old. Dd2 was 6 months.

My little one was 16 months old before he consistently slept through. 9/10 he sleeps all night. You have my sympathy OP. My LO is 2 next week and still not falling asleep at the same time each night. The battle of getting a kid to sleep is the hardest thing!!!

My daughter is 16 months and has started doing the occasional full night within the last month or two.

Depends on your definition.

DD1 4.5 years is woken up to go to the toilet...she's not happy about it but we're happy not to have to change wet bedding 50 percent of the time.

DD2 2 years wakes for about 5 mins at midnight and then goes back to sleep after a sleepy feed.

Both went to one wake up around a year old.

Eldest was 4 and half years old.
Youngest doesn't sleep through but she's only 3 and a half, so I'm praying 12 months from now....

Xmas after he started school so 5.5 years old

2years
2years
18 months
About 18 months again I think (why can’t I remember the most recent??)

All had slept through the night before but this is the age they started doing it every night consistently

About 3/4 months old he consistently slept through the night, still does now at 2 years old, we consider ourselves very lucky.
Currently expecting my 2nd and I'm not expecting this baby to be as easy

All my children started sleeping through from 2.5 years and on wards.

2 x kids, both reliably slept through from 9 weeks. I.e. bed about 7pm dream feed about 11pm, awake around 7am.

Demand fed so unlimited (and huge) amounts of milk during the day, usually 2 hourly never more than 3 hourly feeds plus cluster feeding early evening. They'd get a bath with calming stuff in it, big feed with a formula top up so they were really stuffed, and sleep like logs.

When lockdown started - was just about to turn 2.
I truly believe it was the consistency and predictability of daily life in our case and the fact that me and DH were both around. Gave more security perhaps... don't know. That, and it combining with her learning that she is actually able to get herself to/back to sleep on her own without our help.
Then again, we're about to embark on a second one so who knows. All children different (clearly, going by these posts!)

Good luck OP.

1 - around 2 years old
2 - 10 months
Didn’t do anything so different think individual children face different needs

DD - 11 months
DS - 9 months
No sleep training

Dc1 10 weeks
Dc2 11 months
Dc3 12 weeks
Dc4 13 weeks
Dc5 6 months
Dc6 7 years and still doesn't sleep (autism)
Dc7 6 months
Dc8 doesn't sleep though at 16 months

When she was 4 years old

My son - 2 months
My daughter - 4 months
I know I’ve been very lucky with them both.

My oldest slept really well from about 7 weeks. She’d wake for a feed then go straight back down. She reliably slept through from about 13 months.

My youngest was more difficult, would wake and be really hard to put back down. She started sleeping well at about 18 months and by 3 she was sleeping through.

DC1 from 2.5 years. He woke LOADS very consistently until I night weaned him at 2y3m, but once he slept through that was it, other than the odd nightmare or wet bed.

DC2 has had phases of sleeping through most nights on and off since 6 weeks (both fully breastfed). But also phases of being very wakeful. She’s 3 now and gets up every night to move into my bed, often before midnight, but I think this time last year she was sleeping all night in her own bed. I night weaned her for sleep reasons somewhere between 1-2 but it didn’t really make her wake any less frequently.

I wonder if this BFing on demand has caused such terrible sleepers. Getting used to just feeding whenever and this happens throughout the night.

6 months - but he was chunky and formula fed and I think just didn't get hungry through the night.

Then at 3yrs old he started to be scared of the dark and we've had a couple of months of disturbed nights while we got stuff right for him. Seems to have settled now, but even when you think you've cracked it, they change the rules of the game....

It's looking a bit better now, my baby is 25 months.

I have 3 dc no1. was a year no.2 was 6 weeks and no.3 has just started at nearly 2 x

Depends on your defintion of sleeping through. Reliably for 12 hours with no wake up, some time around 9 months. By 7 weeks she was going 7-7 with one wake up for a feed, but it all went to shit at 4 months and we didn’t get back to that pattern until almost 7 months.

They’re all so different though. I have a friend whose child still wakes every couple of hours at 2 years old, I think this is probably on the very extreme end of the spectrum though. Don’t know anyone else whose child wasn’t sleeping though by 1 at the latest.

12 months after night weaning