When did your baby reliably sleep through the night?

[ReeseWitherfork]

How old was your baby when the started regularly sleeping through the night? Did you do any form of sleep training? How was the baby fed?

(In case anyone cares why I’m asking:

DS woke every three hours from 4 to 20 months and then just started sleeping all the way through one night. I fed or rocked him to sleep for every sleep, never taught him to self soothe etc.

DT are 6 months. Are given a lot less intervention to get them off to sleep (just the reality of there only one of me, two babies and a toddler in the house!). Some nights they give me really long stretches of up to 8 hours. Some nights they both wake every hour. Currently doing lots of the latter! It’s fine atm, it is what it is, but I am aware this may be the death of me when I go back to work!

All BF; I know there’s a school of thought that says BF babies take longer to get there.)

Bf baby, slept through 12pm-8am from about 4 months, by about 6/7 months bedtime was then around 10pm, and it was 8-8 by 9 months when i was back to work.

We did do some sleep training, went in evrry few minutes to resettle if crying. Didn't cuddle/feed to sleep frequently after 4 months, mostly put down awake with dummy and music

DS around about 7 (years) but still unreliable at times.

DD about 8 months.

Both EBF.

My lo was formula fed, 19 months old now and we did CC at 6 months as she was waking hourly to 3 hourly since 3 months. I couldn't take anymore.

We have good periods and not good periods.

We have split nights. Though ours is usually caused my overtiredness so I can correct in a day or two.

Illness and teething has been bad past 6 to 8 weeks so woken a lot.

When she was younger I say again we had good and bad patches. It's hard to remember how many or how much.

When my lo wakes is usually for a reason and not because she needs help to get back to sleep of that makes sense.

About 4 years old.

First baby woke once in the night and then up for the day at about 5am until he was 2 years old. Tried all sorts of things with him. Nothing worked. At 2, he just stopped the night wakings and started sleeping 12 hours 7-7 of his own accord.

Second baby slept 12 hours from about 3 weeks old. It was freaky. She fed all day long, though. She pretty much just ate and slept for about her first 6 months 😆

Both mixed fed.

First baby slept through from 10 weeks. Had a regression at around 12 months then never had any issues again.

Sleep trained second baby at 7 months as was waking multiple times for feeds and I was not coping with minimal sleep and being back at work full time. Other than illness has never woken at night since.

Dc1 was sleeping 11hr stretches nightly reliably by 12 weeks, DC 2 same at about 5 months and dc3 was about 2 yrs old before this became a reliable pattern. DC 2 and 3 are twins.

DS is 21 months and has got pretty consistent in the last 2-3 months.

He falls asleep between 7.45-8pm and is awake between 7-7.30am. I would say 2-3 nights a week he will wake between 4.30-5.30 but settles back after 5 mins or so.

18 months

DD1 was around 3 years old, had sleep trained at 18months. DD2 still doesn't sleep through every night and she's nearly 5. Sleep trained also around 18 months which improved things a bit but no magic bullet

DS still gets me up several times a night at nearly 7.

DD has slept pretty reliably since 18 months.

Still waiting at six years!

DC1 - 12 months
DC2 - 12 weeks
DC3 - 3 years

All breast fed.

Two and a half. No sleep training. Breastfed. Slept through from the first night I moved him from a shared bed to a toddler bed in my room. Woke to breastfeed every couple of hours until then.

DD: We sleep trained for naps at 6 months (she would only contact nap) - we hadn’t done it to stop the night wakings but that was a nice side effect!

DS: 5 month next week and still waking twice a night. Will do 8pm - 3am but usually up then and again at 5am. Have moved his night feed from the 3am to the 5am unless he’s inconsolable but he also refuses to nap anywhere except arms so planning to sleep train again next month and really hoping history repeats itself!

Both were EBF for the first 3 months and gently transitioned to FF by the 6 month mark (DS only BFs at the night feed now).

Currently 3.5 years and often still wakes once a night. Was breastfed and no sleep training. They used to wake every hour so this feels like luxury 😂

3 DC, one breast fed, 2 bottle fed, they all slept a shortish night for example 11-5 at 8 weeks and 12 hours by 12 weeks. They woke about once per year after this. I fed 3 hourly during the day and nearly non stop in the evening or a feed about 7 and then a big feed at about 10.30 depending on the baby.

Thanks all!

They’ve got some allergy issues ongoing atm. Just found out they’ve got CMPA and there’s definitely something milder I need to find too. Maybe once they’re in a better place with all that then I’ll try and focus on sleep. They’re not bad, but I need to be in the best place I can be going back to work. And you’ve all given me the confidence that it isn’t a deluded expectation.

Ebf baby is now 11 yrs old and still wakes at least once during the night! Always has done, sorry op as this isn’t what you wanted to hear! 😀

I'd say around 2, we were guaranteed to be up at least once a night before then. No idea if it was just coincidence but we switched DD to a single bed and she started sleeping through the same week

Haha no, it’s ok, I’m well aware that children don’t switch off needing us overnight. Out of curiosity though, why does your 11 yo wake and what do they need from you?

Baby 1, 11 months. Baby 2, 22 months.
Both bf but baby 2 was IUGR so perhaps more catching up to do.

6 months old
BF
Did shush pat sleep training at 5 months

7pm-7am from 7 weeks old

Started sleeping through every night from 12 weeks, no sleep training.

He is formula fed