How old was your littlie when they slept through the night?

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Bumped into a lady I shared the hospital room with today, and she said her DS has cut out night feeds now ( at 7 weeks) and is sleeping for as long as 9.5 hours a night...... My DS is still feeding every 4 hours. :sleeping: What have been your experiences?:rolleyes:

[bubbles28]

My DS is 18mths old and I can coundt on one hand the number of times he has slept through the night. I am hoping this will change soon...very soon!

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:eek: Ooooh Bugger!!!!! :eek:

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PS - Bubbles28, your bub is gorgeous! :yes:

[Mamaduke]

Both of my boys slept through the night at around the 6-7 week mark...I have been absolutely blessed with wonderful sleepers - it's God's way of trying to influence me to have more...;)
They were both on formula by then so that may have something to do with it - from what I've heard.

[Natsmummy]

Its very on and off - sometimes my little boy sleeps through and sometimes he doesn't. All my friends from mothers group have found the same thing. Like everything else to do with babies it seems that you can't say 'my baby always does this' because the moment you do they start doing something different!

[cwsmum]

DS slept from 7pm - 6am from about 6/7weeks old...however, he started waking once thru the night for a bottle when he was about 12mths old, we moved house twice in 4mths so I think that unsettled him a bit. He only stopped waking thru the night when I stopped the bedtime bottle when he was 2.5yrs old, I probably would have let him keep having it but DD was due a few mths later and I didn't want 2 bubs waking thru the night.

After the first month, DD woke once a night til she was about 4/5mths old. From then on she has been going to bed between 6:30/7:30pm and mostly sleeping til 7 or 8am. She has had a cold & ear infection recently and has had a few nights where she has slept from 6pm - 8am.

This ladies bub might be a good sleeper now, but down the track he might start waking thru the night. He might be like my 3yr old and refuse to go to sleep in his own bed :banghead:

Forgot to mention, both my bubs were on formula from about a week old :)

[Mrs AJC]

I had DS sleeping through the night at 7weeks. Fast forward 2mths he had 2x ear infections, chest infection, and really bad nasal congestion and as a result I would be lucky if he would sleep more than an hr at a time, most of the time I would have to hold him upright to sleep. Now DS is nearly 8mths and I would LOVE to get a full night sleep. He now wakes every 4hrs on a good night! Most nights I'm up about 4 times after I put him down at around 7:30pm.

[Areca]

DD has slept through (11-12 hours) 9 times in her life. Right now we're at 12 hours sleep with one feed (still exclusively breast fed at 8 months).

I have a friend who's exlusively breastfed bub started sleeping 10 hours of a night at 8 weeks but once she hit 6 months they spent three months taking turns sleeping in her room cause she was up every half an hour...I'd prefer what I have to that! My friend's daughter still doesn't sleep through, better, but she still has some really rough nights.

all I can say is that you get used to the night wakings. I find that I'm awake before DD is now, like I know she's going to wake...only up for 1/2 hour too.

[Shebb]

My daughter slept through the night by 8 weeks of age.

We did a parenting course which prepared us very well for the amazing task of parenting, and we were taught that "sleeping through the night" meant bubs slept a mnimum of 7-8 hours for at least 3 consecutive nights. We then gradually extended her night sleep so by 6 months she was well and truly doing 12 hours, which she's done since.

I have only ever had to rarely get up to her in the night when she's not well, or the occasional time earlier in her life when she'd get stuck in a weird position in her cot! :D

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:sleeping: I am starting to get used to it...... But oh how I'd kill for just one tiny eenie weenie full nights sleep again! :sleeping:

[ziggie]

My daughter slept through the night by 8 weeks of age.

We did a parenting course which prepared us very well for the amazing task of parenting, and we were taught that "sleeping through the night" meant bubs slept a mnimum of 7-8 hours for at least 3 consecutive nights. We then gradually extended her night sleep so by 6 months she was well and truly doing 12 hours, which she's done since.

How did they prepare you? What course? Where can I do a course like that?! How did you extend it? :eek:

[V8]

DS is 9 months old and only now starting to sleep a bit longer, however he goes to bed late between 9pm and 11pm, wakes maybe once through the night then sleeps through till 9am or 10am, so i get a sleep in which isn't so bad.

[MonkeyMum05]

My little boy has been going to bed around 7pm, feeding at 10.30pm, then sleeping until anywhere from 5.30am to 7am since about 7 months. It took a lot of very hard work though.

[whatwasithinking]

Hannah slept through the night at 9wks and Bec slept through at 6wks

[munchkin05]

my ds is 14mths now and still waking at night
still around 4 times lol

so my experience is not to good :laughing:

[Grizabella]

My DS was sleeping through from 5 weeks. Touch wood it continues!!!! :fingerscrossed:

[dormouse]

My DD slept for 7hours straight at exactly 6 weeks & has slept 12-16 hours a night ever since. With maybe 2 or 3 exeptions. She loves her sleep as much as her mummy does!

[Mahjong]

Still waiting for Wyatt to start sleeping through the night also. Could count of one hand also the amount of times he has. He's 20 months old.

[elissas]

DS is 7mths and I'm still waiting.

I figure he'll do it when he's ready.

Waking is a good sign, it means they are more likely to wake themselves if there's a problem (eg sids). So I'm grateful for DS' wakefulness because I have peace of mind - even though it is tiring.

Babies are naturally wakeful and light sleepers. Bubs that sleep through before 6mths are actually in the minority!!

If you are bf'ing they are also more likely to not sleep through, as breast milk is digested a lot quicker than formula.

[~EmsMum~]

DD has slept through for the past 7 nights and she is 3 and a bit months old

[MrsMiggins]

From about 6 weeks or so. My bub was predominantly formula fed at this age, although she usually slept 4-5 hours at a time from as soon as we brought her home, so we were lucky.

We are having no such luck now though!!!

Bear in mind that even bubs who are good sleepers early on go through plenty of wakeful stages later down the track, so just because someone's bub is giving them a good run now, don't feel too bad that your's isn't.

[Karizma]

My first son slept thrugh on and off, he slept throgh when he was 1.5, my second son slept through since he was 2 weeks old :o Very lucky

[Briannabear]

9 weeks old for my DD. :D

[Mamaduke]

Isn't nice that we find comfort out of saying things like,
"well just because their baby sleeps now...don't worry, they'll be dreadful sleepers one day!"
Even if my boys were terrible sleepers, I wouldn't then hope that someone else goes through the same thing!

BTW...just to 'ruin' everyone's day...Jesse's almost 5 and he's always been a good sleeper...maybe that'll change when he's 16...there's always hope!:rolleyes:

[Elijahsmama]

DS started sleeping through 7pm-8am bang on the day he turned 6wks. He was and is only breastfeed. Before then he was waking once or twice for a BF within 10hrs. And since sleeping through he has only woken through the night when he had gastro and sick from his 2nd needles and when we went overseas and changed his sleep pattern. We feel really blessed but we swear by routines and worked hard to get there and me and DH are big sleepers so i think DS has our sleepy genes!