My baby sleeps through the night!

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I don't want to gloat but my baby started sleeping through at 8 weeks.

Rather than yet another thread of mums moaning that their's don't sleep through how about a thread of those that do, since our routines may be helpful to others.

My DS is FF and suddenly started sleeping through all by himself at 8 weeks. Its not every single night yet, but most nights. I'm hoping this lasts as long as possible!

I'm not sure if it was anything I did, but we had just started putting him into Grobags which may have had something to do with it. Also he gets a last feed at 1030pm-ish, and I try to get him to drink as much during the day as I can, so that hopefully he's not so hungry during the night. The only routine we've established so far are the 7pm, 1030pm and 7.30am feeds, the rest of the day is a little hit and miss, but feeding every 3-4 hours, depending on how much he wants. DS naps when he wants during the day, usually just power naps as I haven't managed to get him to take regular daytime naps yet. Some days he'll nap more than others. We're gradually getting into a full routine, but still working on it!

I think you do want to gloat a little bit...

I've got 6 mo, fully bf twins.

1 sleeps through (7pm -5am), one doesn't (3-6 wakes per night).

(at 8 weeks, they both slept 7pm - 3am for a month or so - not any more!)

To a large extent it's not what you do, it's the baby that determines what it needs at night.

Ah but you see if we're REALLY gloating sleeping 10.30pm to 7am isn't technically 'through the night'. My exclusively BF DD1 slept 7pm to 7am from approx 8 weeks (and never regressed). I'm not inclined to think that anything I did (other than doing my utmost to feed as much as possible in the daylight hours) had much to do with it. It was just luck I think. DD2 and DS (also EBF) managed 7-7 from 10 wks and 12 wks respectively. I was v lucky, although I have my doubts whether DS would ever have slept through on his own (unlike the girls). I'm afraid to say that exhausted and in melt down (PND) and confident that he was healthy (and knowing that both my girls had slept through of their own accord earlier) i simply stopped feeding him at night and within a couple of days he slept through - not a course of action I'd necessarily recommend, but it worked for me.

mine slept through at 9 weeks for a week and then not again until 12 months.............

I have a good one too 10-12 hours every night, 6 months old ...... i can't say how happy I am !!!

I am very happy for you all.

(And in awe of BosomsbytheSea for EBF-ing twins)

My little boy is 9 weeks, and some nights manages 6.5 hrs at a stretch, so he is getting there slowly (though the last 3 nights have been nowhere near as good - waking every 3 hrs). The trouble is, he is always absolutely soaking wet by the time he wakes up after 6.5 hours. It's all up his back and over the sheets. How do you lot handle this?

Ha! Ha!

Pride comes before a fall. My dd slept through 7pm to 7am at six weeks and she was exclusively breastfeed. This carried on until she was about six or seven months.

Now things have gone pear shaped as my dd is teething like mad and last night she was up four times.

I think it is important to remember that this phase will pass. Also what works as a solution for one family is not appriopate for another.

I am coping by making life as easy for myself. My daughter is in a bedside cot. I don't want to do controlled crying with her as it would wake up her brother.

Wow, in awe of all the sleepy babies. Not even doing it at 12.5mo here.

MamaL - Sorry if it's stating the obvious, but we use the Pampers BabyDry and found this made a big difference in terms of staying dry at night. No idea what they put in them!

Thank you, I will try them!

shhh or they'll all want one

Bah humbug. 11.15, 1.45, 3.40ish and 5.40ish last night.

You can all feel even better now.

BTW Nelly - did you do anything to help him settle (water etc) or just leave him to it? am seriously tempted....

so glad about this thread - we all need tips from those whose babies have successfully slept right through...can you provide more details though - ie did you use any form of leaving them to cry it out, do you have a bedtime routine, do you top up feeds with formula etc etc?

i honestly think it is luck!

DS slept through from 25 weeks (FF)

DD is now 25 weeks and wakes twice for a feed (EBF)

i have done everything you are "meant" to - feed a lot in the day, tanking up in the evening, letting her settle on her own and she is nowhere near sleeping 4 - 5 hours without a feed, nevermind 12

DS1 slept through from about 10 weeks, DS2 slept through at around 8, brilliant thought I. And then the 4 month sleep regression kicked in. Dammit!

Mostly now he goes to bed at 7, wakes between 4-5 for a feed and then goes back down til 6.30 ish. Apart from this week as he has a horrid cold waking him up.

I had one horrific sleeper and on brilliant sleeper. FWIW it is all to do with the baby.

Good luck with any future children you have, you might not be so lucky next time. Oh, and 8 weeks is very early - just one lot of bad teething or a cold can undo months of good sleeping.

I'm afraid I've got a non-sleeper too, but you know, I can't help but feel that perhaps, in a few months, if when DD sleeps through the night like an angel, and your DS is waking 2-3 times a night because of teething, colds, etc that maybe I'll be the smug one.

I've read a lot of threads about previous sleepers through the night who start waking, to know that, at 8 weeks, it's far too early to gloat!

yeah mine used to sleep through.
things change!

You want to share your routine in case it helps? But you don't really use a routine, did nothing different and it just happened?

You see that's just it. Personality/luck/developmental phases.

My dd didn't sleep through until she was 2 but I didn't care a jot thankfully. Loved night feeds.

I'm pleased for you though if it makes you happy.

At least we get to spend quality time with our little ones when the rest of the world's asleep, eh?!

My DD was EBF and slept 12 hours a night from about 10weeks - however I used to spend half the day feeding her (45mins was a quick feed, every 2-3 hrs), so there are pros and cons!!!

DS was mix-fed from 6weeks and slept through 12 hours from 8 weeks. He has never drunk much milk (nightmare feeder from birth - totally nor interested), even now at 12m, so go figure!

Neither have ever regressed - apart from a 3 month period when DD went into her own bed at 2.5y and realised that she could get up as many times as she wanted!

I never really did controlled crying, but made sure I put them down awake in their cot/moses basket from 3-4 weeks old.