If you did nothing, when did it get better?

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My daughter is nearly 1 and sleep has been terrible since she was 3 months. If you had a similar sleeper and didn't sleep train, when did things start improving for you?

Just another voice to say don't worry and don't think you have to fight it.
One of mine can sleep on a clothesline, the other ... well, not so much!
It wasn't so much that the night waking stopped, more that with age they were able to deal with it themselves and get back to sleep again.
Most of the family are rubbish sleepers actually and even all grown up we don't sleep through - but we deal with it by getting up and going to the loo, getting a drink, reading or whatever and not disturbing the rest of the household. 😬

2 years and 2 months, and 2.5 for me. I thought I’d never sleep again. I was up many many times in the night, it truly was torture. Sleep training was definitely not for me.

Mine kept waking every 2-3 hours, if he was well and had nothing going on, until a week after I fully night weaned when he was around 13 months. That was June, and he has slept really well ever since except for when he’s teething or unwell, which seems to be his permanent state now since September and term-time-only kids went back to nursery 😭 so, yknow, still riding the rollercoaster!

25m started Sleeping through - I was pregnant and my milk dried up then I think.

I have 4 kids and never sleep trained and mostly co-slept as well. My youngest is now 1 and it got easier when she weaned from breastfeeding, then even better when she started eating more and then started sleeping all through the night and going down easily when I began to make sure everyone else quieted down and no screens on until she fell asleep. If she knows we're up, she wants to be up. So everyone pretends to sleep for about 10 minutes and then she's out and we can all watch our shows or whatever. It also makes a HUGE difference when she's gotten out of the house that day, whether playing outside or running errands or whatever. I try to tire her out basically. She has to have a nap during the day or there's hell to pay. Really she needs two but she pushes through until after lunch or even later. At night she really wants to have a very long extended cuddle to avoid sleeping- she wants to lay next to me and play with my hands for hours, but I only let her cuddle for a few minutes then I hide my hands and tell her to go to sleep. So for us it's making sure she's eating and drinking plenty, one good nap, lots of physical and mental stimulation, then total shutdown at her bedtime (or so she thinks). She might stir for her binky but that's it. I have found that being firm and really putting my foot down is key with her. She knows what 'go to sleep' means and I use my mom voice to enforce it. Otherwise it will be an endless ploy to stay up or wake up to play.

Started to sleep through fully at 15-18 months. I co-sleep and he stays asleep with me now. Prior to that, he was waking every 2 hours. He also had huge melt downs and it took me one hour to settle him. I finally realised it was because he was anxious sleeping without me. So he hops into my bed now if he has one of those.

My DS is almost 13 months and can go all day at nursery without a breastfeed but asks to be fed every 1-2 hours overnight since the 4 month regression. Unless DH sleeps in with him when he resettles with a cuddle or head rub every 1-2 hours. I often wish I had some something when he was a bit younger as think it would be more tough now as a stroppy toddler

I commented a few weeks ago saying my 18 month old was down to 2-3 wakes a night after over a year of waking 5 plus times a night. She's now down to 1-2 wakes a night reliably! It's amazing and yet I still feel so tired. I'm pregnant and I think it may partly be due to milk supply dropping