When should I hope/expect baby to start sleeping through the night?

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She’s now 7 months’ old and still waking up every 2 hours to feed. She’s breastfed.

Any suggestions to encourage her to sleep longer stretches are welcome too. I’m exhausted…

Mine is 2y8mo and still usually wakes once at which point she comes into our bed. Up until about 20mo she was waking after 4ish hours in her own cot then every 2 hours in our bed to feed. She then went through a stage of wanting to be latched on from midnight until 4am. So after talking about it with her a few times I partly night weaned at 2 years old, completely night weaned by about 2yr4mo and sleep has been getting betterish since then but not consistently, still have some very unsettled nights.

1 hour total!? Or in one hour stretches?

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Sounds like you've hit 'the sleep pit' early. It is grim but it does pass... Slowly. Take care of yourself x

I’m in the same situation, baby has just turned 8 months, wakes every 2 hours and wants to be fed. It is habit, she doesn’t genuinely need feeding at every wake but it’s very hard to try and resettle a different way when you’re exhausted and you just want to feed them to get them back to sleep as quickly as possible. I’m doing some sleep training and I can now settle her in her cot at bedtime (previously needed to be fed or rocked to sleep, and she used to wake every 30 minutes from bedtime to 10pm- doesn’t anymore). I need to put it into practice on night wakes.
Maybe some gentle sleep training may benefit you both. Hope things get better for you soon!

1 in total believe me it was hard!
how we survived is beyond me, because when she was 11 weeks old I got pregnant again 🤣

My son still doesn't sleep through. We co-slept early on so I could cope with the feedings! Now wakes just a couple times for milk for comfort. He's 2yrs 3m.

Please don't do Ferber method. It's horribly cruel. He literally says it's OK if your baby cries until they're sick, just clean them up and carry on 😔 barbaric.

My baby co-sleeps and mostly sleeps through from about 10-4 then wakes for a feed then sleeps till 6 which I'm happy with. Co-sleeping helps us. She does wake loads more when teething but I am glad I'm able to breastfeed her to comfort and soothe her pain.

Statistically most babies wake at least once until age 2. My first started sleeping through around 20 months but still wakes up at least a couple of nights a week and just need a cuddle. My second still wakes at 16 months but we’re down to once or twice. Cosleeping works for us.

DS2 is 16 months and we’ve just had two consecutive ‘m through the night sleeps, 7-7.

Hes never been a good sleeper and until now was still waking twice in the night then up for the day around 5. My eldest didn’t sleep through until 3, then a long phase of coming into my room in the middle of the night.

In my experience everything is a phase 🥲 hope you get some decent sleep soon OP it’s very difficult I know.

Gentle sleep training. A 7 month old sleeping through the night would be a luxury but still waking up every 2 hours is clearly habit rather than need.

You are saying your daughter slept one hour a day until she was 3?

She would be dead. That's not possible.

I can assure you that’s all she slept

If you say so, but that little sleep over that long normally results in psychosis.

Dc1 was 19 months (due to ill health and habit forming I think).
Dt were 7 months (once managing a good amount of solid food).
All were breastfed. It really varies. Dt were better at self settling because I never rocked/fed them to sleep and I definitely think this helped.

Mine didn't start sleeping properly until about 1 year old, when I stopped breastfeeding and was back at work.

My son is breastfed and was sleeping 4-5 hour stretches from birth, and started sleeping through the night (not consistently but most nights) from about 3-4 months old. It helped a lot when he started sucking his thumb because he was able to sooth himself back to sleep. I realise this is fairly unusual and most babies wake for longer. I honestly think he’s just too lazy to wake me, so he just puts his thumb in his mouth or rolls over onto his stomach and goes back to sleep. He will cry for me if he’s not well or teething as he struggles to self sooth then.

Have you got blackout blinds? I used to breastfeed my babies at 10pm. After about 8-10 weeks they'd sleep through until about 5.30am. I never let them nap after about 4pm in the daytime. I'd bath at about 7pm and play with them to keep them awake. I don't know why but it worked with all 3 of them.

There was a music teacher who died of not sleeping.

Did you take her to a doctor? That's incredibly dangerous. There is a reason why sleep deprivation is used as a torture method. It literally kills people.

It's not humanly possible to do that.

My little boy slept 7-7 from around 5.5/6 months old. Formula fed

Never tbh.

It's normal for babies to wake frequently so I wouldn't expect a baby to sleep through.

Sleeping through is technically six hour stretches.

My 2.5 year old has done six hours maybe five times in his life. Properly “slept through” twice.

His sleep trained friends aren’t any different. It comes when it comes. We don’t feed overnight anymore but he still wakes once or twice a night. Ironically, it was a lot quicker to get him back to sleep when I fed him 😅

I didn't want to accuse the poster of lying but that's what I was thinking! I wonder if she was bf and was feeding whilst asleep which the poster took to mean she was awake?

Yes we tried everything to get help, no medication worked, at the age of 7 she was diagnosed with ADHD

We tried everything to get her to sleep, even medication that didn’t help
At the age of 7 she was diagnosed with ADHD