Baby sleep

[Boymum234]

Hi I’m looking for some advice if possible.
at what age should a baby be sleeping through the night? Any advice or tips on ways to help a baby sleep through the night? And what’s reasonable time for a baby to be getting up in the morning and going to bed at night. A baby that’s 6 months old. Thankyou

All babies are different, and to be honest, so are their parents in terms of what they find tolerable. There are apparently unicorn babies who sleep solid 12 hours almost from birth. Not many.
Generally, 6 mo is a bit young to expect a full 'night' but they should probably be in a bedtime routine, maybe a dream feed and then hope for a good chunk.
Some people will I'm sure be along to say you must train them to sleep immediately. I'm not one of them- it is developmental and happens when they're ready and I refused to allow my baby to cry or not be with him.

There is no age they should be sleeping through. My eldest didn't sleep though one night until he was 4 years old. Only at 6 years did he consistently sleep through all week. My youngest was only a couple of months old (but we are back to multiply wake ups at 3 years old)
All babies are different and my experience their personalities has a massive impact on sleeping through the night. Its not always something you can dictate to them or make happen.

Fed and not overtired would be a good starting point to aiding sleeping through. Check they have a good awake window before bedtime
Teaching to self sooth (but I don't rate that - mine can self sooth when they feel like it but don't at 2am)
A good calm bedtime routine - bath, cuddles, bottle/milk, stories, bed
Dream feeding worked with my youngest - around 10pm I'd do a dream feed and that could get us through to 6am. Didn't work with my eldest though!
Trial and error in what you change and give it a few weeks when making a change to see an impact

We would aim for 730pm bedtime and 6am wake up (and still do)

Have a good routine.

My son slept through the night at 11 weeks. He was in his own room. We kept each other awake.

My daughter was 10 months when she started to sleep through. All babies are different.

I sleep trained mine at 6.5 months because she never found her way out of the 4 month sleep regression and woke every 25 - 45 minutes. She was asleep in 12 minutes on night 1 and slept for 7 hours and then back down after a feed. She was asleep in 7 minutes on night 2 and slept 9 hours then back down after a feed. After that, she slept through the night. And by night 5 she didn't cry at all before going to sleep. Sleep training is not for everyone, the right thing is what's best for you and your family. To sleep train her, we would go back in to settle her after 2 minutes of crying. Turns out ours was just minutes away from settling herself, but we had never given her the chance to do it before. I hear some of them take hours, i don't think we could have seen it through if so. Do what feels right for you.

Just to help not feel alone… lots of infants cannot sleep “through the night”, in fact most don’t. It’s a bit of a western expectation that babies actually can’t do. I know this doesn’t help when you’re exhausted and just want some sleep… but I found it comforting to know that it wasn’t just my baby!