Is fully STTN a myth?

[amberj]

We have recently been weaning DS off his night feed in the (mistaken) belief and hope that it would lead to a lovely unbroken sleep. Hm, no. Last night I was up 5 times to pat, lay back down, provide dummy etc. I think it was easier to feed!

So it got me thinking....does anyone's LO really, actually, more often than not sleep for 11-12 hour straight? Maybe not every single night (due to teething, illness, random bad night), but most nights? Is there children out there (who are under, say, 5) who do this? From the tales of my mothers group, it SOUNDS like there are, but I get a bit wary of mummy-bragging!

Just curious!

EDIT: STTN = sleeping through the night (I know we translated elsewhere, but I was so confused at first! ). - nelle

[[M]umma[M]ia]

yep Mia does. Welll sorta. I still wake her at 10pm for a bottle but she hardly wakes. She goes down at 6:30, asleep usually by 7:30 and wakes about 7-730 am.

[Indadhanu]

Yes, it IS a myth. LOL. And I'd rather not anything to the contrary!!!

Well, of course, I'm sure there are some (I am pretty sure most of the others are mummy bragging lol!) but those parents are very very lucky and I don't think its the norm for at least under 2 (this is how I rationalise it to myself at 10pm, 1am, 2am, 4am etc... hahaha).!!!!

[amberj]

Geez Hollye, what's your secret?!

[Arimeh]

Miss M still needs a feed at 10pm, and then usually takes another few hours to go down. If we don't feed her at 10, she'll wake up at midnight like last night, and then its 2am before she's asleep again.

Aricyn dropped the 10pm feed around 7ish months, but still wakes up during the night. It got a lot easier when we moved him to a toddler bed, cos now he just crawls into bed with us at around midnight. And then he'll sleep the rest of the night.

[Rach75]

umm I knwo jack is a little older but yeah he sleeps 11.5 - 12 hrs a night 9pm till 9am most days from 10 weeks old he was sleeping 9am till 6am then back from 7am till 9am mind you he only ever catnapped during the day 40mins tops and has now dropped his day sleep *yawn*

[Willow]

My 20 mo does. He goes to bed at 7pm and wakes at 7am (at the earliest) with no wake ups (except if he's sick or has a dirty nappy). BUT he has only been doing this since 10 months, before that, totally different story! And days are different, most days he has a good sleep but some days he doesn't.

DD was a much better sleeper than DS, she started doing 12-13 hours every night (again, apart from the rare night where she was sick etc) at about 9 months.

Antheia - wow you ARE lucky!! I can't even imagine any of my babies sleeping that long at that age.

[Tinks]

My kids all slept 12 hrs very early on. DS was sleeping 12 hrs from a few days old, DD's 1 and 2 slept 12 hrs from about 1 week old. So yes it does happen. I am so sorry to hear it's not happening for you.

[Antheia]

Lily slept through the night(ie 12 hours) from 4 days old. Charlie slept through (10 hours) from 6 weeks and Orson has slept through (10 hours) since birth. So yes they are around and i have been told i am very lucky and i now see why.

[[M]umma[M]ia]

Geez Hollye, what's your secret?!

have a crap day, have a good night. She doesnt like to sleep during the day (well now anyway). Mayb she does wake? but im just too buggered to hear her. lol

[christy]

Someone had better share this with DD1!!! She's 5, and has slept through around 15 times her entire life. And sleeping through, I mean 8.30pm - 6ish am.....

DD2 sleeps through some nights, but not all. She may wake up 2 nights a week and she's 2 1/2.

[Phteven]

LOL, yeah it's a myth. Hell, I don't sleep through yet, it's just that when I wake up I don't go and harass the other members of my household to help me get back to sleep (except the cat - she's fair game).
There are some babies who sleep through the night but there's no guarantee that it will continue. No baby is 'easy' all the time in every ways. Some sleep well but they're finicky sleepers, some are easy when they're younger and then turn into monsters when they're teenagers, some 'difficult' toddlers breeze through the teenage years.
If your baby won't sleep through it's not because you're doing something wrong and if your baby does sleep through it's not because you did something right - it's jsut the luck of the draw

[~*Niadalla*~]

I will be the envy of alot of people, but my DS will sleep through the night for 12-14 hours and also have a day sleep between 2 and 4 hours every day.

It wasn't from when he was born though. I had a horrible horrible time up until he was 12 months old. At 10 months he was still waking for feeds at least 4 times a night. All of a sudden, when he hit 12 months, was in his own room, he just started sleeping. Very rarely will he wake up, unless he's too hot or cold ( but to the very extremes) and if he is unwell. Other than that... we've got it really good here. I'm sure it will all change soon enough though.

My DD has been sleeping through for at least 6 hours from 1 week of age. Some nights she will wake once in a 12 hour period, but alot of the time, she'll go 8 hours and she's only 7 and a half weeks old. I'm sure she'll be a handful in coming months though, so I am living it up now!

[danniellabella]

DD started sleeping 8-12 hours straight most nights after she started using walking as her main means of getting around. She started walking a week before her 1st birthday but it wasn't until about 13.5-14 months that it became her main means of moving around. She sleeps from about 7:30am until 6:30am most nights and sometimes wakes me up at about 3am but she's not usually fully awake at that time...I just change her nappy and give her a bottle. She'll only generally wake in the middle of the night if she's wet through, although some mornings when she's slept right through I go in and change her and she's almost saturated.

[~Raven~]

Mine have all had periods of sleeping through 12+ hours but they have also had waking through the night periods as well Most frustratingly ATM the baby sleeps through but Mr 2.75 doesn't

[Floweryfields]

I have a mum of 18mth old twins at my work - she commented to someone recently that she got a sleep in for a change. When they inquired what this was, she said 9.30 - what time do they usually get up, oh about 8.30! What time do they go to bed, about 7.30. Wha!!!

[Visitor8]

lol yes unfortunately it's true... but Ashton doesn't think it applies to him

Jaidan and Chase were both sleeping through the night from 12 days (J) and 6 weeks (C), that is from 6pm till 7am. Even now they still go to bed at 6.30pm and get up at 7.30am. Sleep right through. I hope Ashton learns to sleep soon cos I am tired.

[Arcadia]

I better not show DH this thread. I have him convinced it is normal for babies to be up at least 3 times a night every night!

Seriously though... sleeping through from a few days olds? Did you even feel like you had a baby?