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!

My baby sleeps through too but am not saying that too loud because she is my 3rd and I know how rapidly things can change once they start teething or get a cold or just because they dam well don't want to sleep through anymore!!

dd doesn't sleep through the night. not even close although she did, a few times back in the early months.

dd wakes at 10.30pm and between 2/3am but doesn't make a fuss. i get a slight whimper to summon me to feed her, big feed and back to sleep without a peep then she sleeps through until about 7. i dont care. i'm not knackered any more as i'm as used to the routine as she is and whatsmore she rarely even cries during the day and people remark all the time about how hceerful and jolly and sociable she is and im more than happy with that!

Sounds good sungirltan. Although my DD slept through, she was very fractious in the day (constant feeding - probably to see her through the 12 hour night stretch!). Like I said before - there are pros and cons!!!

I don't want to rain on your parade either but DD slept through at that age and now at 3.5 can wake up to 5 times a night.

Groan. My DC still don't sleep that well and they are 12 and 10. That's years, not months!

I have to say that our little treasure has slept a lot better since being big enough to go into the sleeping bag. They are wonderful !

DS2 slept through from 4 months. Then at 7 months he got chicken pox, since then it has been four months of constant illness or teething or separation anxiety and waking at night more often than not!

So enjoy it while it lasts OP

I have to say that we have been using the sleeping bags since 12 weeks, and no, they are not a miracle sleeping through guarantee.

Some babies wake up a lot in the night, and some don't. End of. Just try to fit your own sleep in around whatever your baby does.

i am also sleeping bag fan. the best thing about them is that you dont have to get them out of bed so to speak to feed/sooth. i think dd goes back to sleep/settles more quickly since i have been using them. but them she kicked the covers off too which i think woke her up.

Yeah, I know it might not last but I'm enjoying it whilst it does! I do feel lucky, as I do to have him at all really.

Its not every single night anyway. Record, so far, is 3 nights in a row.

Yesterday DS ate like he hadn't been fed in a week and still woke up hungry in the middle of the night and ate as if he hadn't had a meal all day! Bring on another growth spurt! Anyway being woken up by DS crying beats the alarm clock for work any day!

I have to say though that I do think the grobags help. He sleeps much more peacefully and is sooooo quiet most of the time (apart from the occasional slurping thumb sucking noises) that I'm glad we have one of those breathing monitor thingies.

Despite awful colic, my DS slept through a few days a week from three weeks old . He's now 7 months and hasn't slept through since he turned four months old.
Funnily enough in the intervening three months we too have tried such esoteric suggestions as grobags and lots of feeds... especially during the near fatal four months sleep regression/growth spurt. At this stage you have no idea of the torture that sleep deprivation can be, so be very careful about mistaking good fortune for your own expert parenting - especially when the expert parenting consists of stating the rather obvious. Most sleep deprived parents have tried all that and SOO much more. You are still in those ridiculously sleepy early days at eight weeks old. It's all very much down to baby's temperament and they haven't finished revealing that to you just yet.
On the plus side, its the babies with lively, enquiring minds who don't tend to sleep through. My turn for smug emoticon.

When my DS was sleeping 7 hours solid from 6 weeks I began to get a bit smug. Pride comes before a fall! The 4 month sleep regression hit and I'm ecstatic if he manages 5!

Poppet - have you thought of keeping it dark and quiet at nighttime?

It's about the baby.

DD1 slept 10-7 from 7 weeks. She never regressed and only stopped sleeping so well after she was 3 and started to have nightmares.

DD2 is 5 months and still wakes at least once for a feed. On a good night she will go from 10:30-5am, but that is the best I get.

They have both had pretty much the same routine, and I have parented in much the same way, but the outcome is different. Shame really, I am knackered and wishing it had something to do with my parenting so I could sort it!

Jesus, I'd be grateful for 3 hours unbroken and mine are 3.3 and 8 months.

DD slept through (7 til 7) from 16 weeks and has barely ever woken in the night since and is now 8.

The two boys that came after her are proof of what happens to people who showoff gloat.

Both my DS's (now 4.5 and 11 months) slept through from 11 weeks or thereabouts. They were both massive babies and were exclusively BF at this point.

We were down to one feed a night anyway and even then it was a five minute job. So, I decided to stop the night feed and just comfort instead.

After a couple of nights they stopped waking for the feed. Of course there was a fair amount of crying involved for those couple of nights so it wasn't easy. But other than illness and DS1 going through a phase of waking at 5.30am for a couple of months they have always slept through.

It's just a shame I suffer with chronic insomnia ....

This is a really funny thread! My DD slept for 7 hr stretches at 3 months and now,at 9 months, I'm happy if she sleeps for 5. Most nights she only goes for 3 -4. She's constantly teething or has a cold. My sisters has 3 boys, she followed the contented baby 'regime' and they all slept through from a young age.. but at what cost?

Glad to see you havent eaten humble pie yet Z.B the zebra!

Not showing off but wanting to share my light at the end of the tunnel.

After 21 months of never sleeping for more than 4 hours at a time my DS has been doing 10 hour stretches for nearly a month now. I cannot tell you how brilliant it feels to go to bed knowing you have a fighting chance of sleeping until morning.

So anyway, just wanted to say hang in there, one day you too will be able to get enough sleep to feel normal again

heh, all my NCT friends who gloated were happy that their 3mo's were sleeping through now have toddlers who wake 7 times a night.

I have DS who woke constantly until 16mo, when he started walking.

Please enjoy it!!! Get all the sleep you can, don't take it for granted or assume it will last. If it does, then you're extremely lucky