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.)

At 9 yo.

#1 breastfed woke every 2 hours (or more 😩) until I night weaned at 11months. Reliable slept through (7-7) from 12monthsish. Lots of time sleep training trying to nail routines etc. Caused nothing but stress.
#2 formula fed, then combi, then formula. Always slept 3/4 hour chunks but slept through (7-7) from around 3/4 months. Had no routine, no training.
I don't think it objectively makes a difference breast vs formula I just think you can give a lot bigger volume with a bottle and it's a pita to get up and make one so you try and settle them without it if you think you can get away with it! I can't have any more but I would still choose breastfeeding for lots of other reasons and I'm already getting the rose tints memories of those night cuddles!

If you mean a solid 12 hours then 3 months ish for both of mine with a dream feed as we were going to bed. Dropped the dream feed at 6 months, after starting weaning a month prior. Didn’t sleep train but they were bottle fed and on the GF Contented Baby routine!

Not judging at all but interested to know why? That seems very unusual.

Sorry posted too soon. I would start bedtime routine around 6pm. Make sure the house was quite dark, bath, bottle (always fed upstairs in the dark room) then into the cot. I just put him down and he would go to sleep by himself. Formula fed (took feeds well) and a big baby. I think I was just lucky. Due to have my second DS on Halloween so hoping it will be the same this time around but who knows.

Dd about 3 years. DS is 3 and wakes 3-4 times a night still.

Dd 8, slept through from 16 weeks

Ds 3.5, still not sleeping through!!! 😡

20 months for my first - no sleep training and exclusively breast fed. Just went to bed one day, didn’t wake up till the morning and never woke at night again! Unless vomiting etc!

DS currently 14 months and still up anywhere between twice a night to every 2 hours. I’m just rolling with it until he sleeps - I know he’ll do it eventually which I find helps when I’m up for the fifth time in a night!

breastfed. About 9months 7-630 ish. Pretty reliable unless ill obviously and he’s almost 3.
Always put down awake not asleep. Night weaned at about 6/7months

All mine slept 10-6 from about 8 weeks. Pure luck I think!

Ds1 when I got pregnant with ds2 and reliably sent him back to his own bed every night. Soon got tired of waking to get in with me.

Ds2... 4 and a half. No rhyme or reason. He sleeps through now but wakes by 5.30 every.single.morning.

There’s something so so painful about 5.30 whereas I find 6am totally acceptable! When DS dropped his 4am feed he started waking around 5-5.30 for the day. Whereas with that feed he’d wake about 7.30-8.00. So him “sleeping through” was not great 😅

DD about 2 months.
DS about 4 years 😅

12 months for both of them.

Both bf.

DC1, dreadful waker as a baby and toddler. I night weaned at 2.5 and DC started sleeping through a few months later.

DC2, mixed bag as a baby but didn't really get back to fantastic after the 4 month blip. Night weaned at about 2yo. Still wakes to come into my bed at 4.5yo. This can be lovely (sleep peacefully side by side until morning) or v disruptive (fidgets and kicks and clambers over me all night).

I rather valued continuing night feeding after returning to work FT as I felt it helped us reconnect, but (as above) I couldn't do it indefinitely. And of course it's only one aspect of ever-complex family life.

DC1 from about three months, DC2 from about four months.
Coincided with stopping bf, putting them in their own room as was done at the time, and not being afraid to leave them to cry a little. They also never ever came into our bed.

Yes I’m with you, I love night feeds. Peaceful moments with just one baby at a time 💖

6.5 years

Both my FF

DS1 slept through reliably from 10 weeks. Genuine unicorn baby. Woke once or twice for a week around 5mo then back to sleeping from 8pm-6:30am again.

DS2 slept through reliably from 6mo. 7pm-6:30am. Before that had been waking once a night between 3-5am for a feed.

Sleeping through several times a week
Ff baby: 3 (but with short phases of sleeping though lasting a week or two, followed by months of not, from about 9m)

Bf baby: 2 (had never slept through before this)

Sleeping through every night
Ff baby did between ages 3-4. Then stopped. She's now 5.5 and usually wakes once a night

Bf baby - did for a couple of months ahead 2, but now (3.5) usually wakes once, sometimes prolonged.

We have had a lot of serious family trauma in the last year though which probably hasn't helped.

Omg how did you do this hayu19 ?
amazing

@Degzy it's mainly the baby not the parents. Some babies are good sleepers,some are not