sleeping all the way through. When does this happen?

[hayleybop]

I appriciate every baby is different and unique and if they sleep through the night depends on temprament, routines, how they are fed ect....
Read everything about sleep you can think of, baby whisperer, no cry sleep solution and many more...
My DD is 8.5 months old and used to wake up many times in the night proberbly 4-5 and now it is down to twice a night usually 12-1pm then 3.30-4.30am....
Does this mean that eventually she will sleep longer in a few months time? Will it get to one night waking then 0 night wakings?
Just need some reasurrance as this no sleep is taking over my life some days.
I'm not doing anything different. Still feeding her when she wakes, have tryed not to but she protests so think that she may well be hungry.
(fhmm), just thought i would ask and have some feedback.

My daughter was about 9 months old when she started sleeping through - but we had to help her do it! I think I kept hoping she would do it on her own, when she was ready, but by 9 months she was still waking a couple of times a night, at least, like your daughter, and I was giving her breastfeeds as the only way to go back to sleep. But it got to the point where we were just so tired that we realised we HAD to do something. I'm not sure you can bank on the babes working it out for themselves ... So we did controlled crying, but it wasn't too bad - and only really took one night of maybe 20 mins crying with us in and out to comfort her. Then she started to sleep really well after that ... I expect your DD is not hungry, i'ts just habit - so you have to try to break it, and she will protest, but hopefully not too much! I know my DD was just wanting the boob for comfort/habit - she wasn't hungry, she was having plenty to eat and drink in the day. You could try perhaps just giving her water instead of milk when she wakes - then cut that out after a while, or she may decide herself that it's not worth waking up for water ...

I'm not ready for CC at the moment. Have trouble sleeping myself with anxiety so think that would be really hard for me to do. Hopefully after xmas I will be stronger to take the plunge into CC.
Did you give water in a bottle or a sippy cup? Know she would protest to that but maybe it's worth a go. She hates bottles!
The not feeding is a good idea also, Have tryed this in the past and it works but she's out of sorts at the moment, back arching and screaming if I dont feed her in the night.
I'll get there in the end. Cheers

15 months here and we've had three 'sleep throughs' 7-5 We co-sleep so the wakings these days are brief and manageable. bad nights are generally teething / illness.
It's my belief that they will get there on their own.

I think sleep training teaches them not to need you / ask for you in the night if they wake but it's not a guarantee that they won't wake and it's not a guarantee that they won't shout.

Mine fed at night until about 9 months but after that was happy with cuddles. Never refused bf just offered cuddle first. If she protested I'd feed.

Hi

Like PiperG, my DS was about 9 months before he slept through and the only way we achieved this was to stop feeding him in the night. Will your little one take a bottle? I switched from breast to bottle for the night feed and gave him watered down formula (3 spoons to 4oz of water) and reduced it each night. After about 5 nights of this we stopped the night feed altogether (just calmed him down and got him back to sleep without feeding him) and he soon stopped the night waking. Good luck!

BTW, I read a "milder" CC plan in a book called "Toddler Taming" by Dr Christopher Green. With his CC you are "allowed" to pick the baby up out of the cot and comfort him/her after the allotted time they've been left. All the other versions of CC I've seen tell you on no account to pick your baby up and cuddle them.

Anjelika

Hayleybop, I gave my DD water in a bottle. She didn't mind this as she was used to having expressed milk in bottles. I guess it's worth a go with a cup if your DD won't take bottles. As for the controlled crying I'm not even sure we did it very rigorously - I certainly picked her up at one point I remember but it still worked for us in the end. I remember feeling very daunted about doing the CC but we were lucky that it only took a night for it to have a positive effect on her sleeping, so it might not be as torturous a process as you are fearing! Having said all that there's still never any guarantee that your babes will continue to sleep through - there's frequently things that wake up my DD/disturb her night sleep - currently she is waking at 1 am and being very awake for ages, and she is also very fond of waking up at 5am ...