KatieRabbit - Glad to hear someone else has experienced it also but not so great that nothing to resolve it.

DD hasn't been too bad lately I must say. We seem to be getting more of a predictable pattern going which i can handle. If I know to expect it then I'm more prepared and don't struggle with trying to settler her if I just know she isn't ready. She seems to be fighting her tired signs less now whereas before she was showing obvious tired signs but just wouldn't go to bed. We've left the night light idea on which seems to have helped somewhat.

She has been having random 1hr naps in the mid afternoon. Then she is up for a little while and I usually give her a snack and a bath. Then down again for another 1hr nap around 6pm which is great as I then go and cook dinner. She then is waking around 7pm and is up and I feed her again and she sits in her rocker for awhile and then back to bed. I think essentially she is tired, as she is usually not her cheerful self, but she may just be trying to cluster feed a little also..

We've had her out and about a few nights this week but she has handled it well. She is now at least asleep around 8.00-9.00pm and stays asleep till about 2-3am when i feed her and then back to sleep till anywhere between 7am-9am..

She had her first dinner out at a restaurant this week and didn't get to bed till 10pm so she then slept through till 4.30am and then through till 9am which was just wonderful and gave me such a good chunk of sleep. The next night we then picked her up from my parents around the same time and bought her home and straight off to sleep again.

Tonight she was asleep at 7.30pm and I went to get some groceries expecting her to get back up when i was gone, but she has stayed asleep.

Earlier this week she had 2 days where she woke for breakfast, was awake 1.5-2.0 hours and then went back to bed for only an hour. Normally after breakfast she'll sleep till lunch time (a good 2-3 hours) but she was waking after one sleep cycle. I soon figured out though that she was waking and not resettling herself so on day 3, i popped her dummy back in and she resettled and back off to sleep, problem solved and hasn't done it again.

I feel like she is trying to prepare herself to sleep through so I'm just trying to run with it and see what she does.

Can anyone advise at what age that it should be expected that a baby will sleep through up to 12 hours?? I guess I don't want to have expectations of her that aren't realistic but I have spoken to numerous people whose babies are sleeping 10hours+ at night but I'm guessing they are just very lucky cases..