Sleeping thru the night

[ss_storm]

DD started sleeping through at about 5 months, but it only lasted for a few weeks. Last night was the first night she has slept right through since then! Will be interested to see if she does it again tonight.

[sloane]

my DS will be 11 months next week & doesn't sleep through. he's BF & still wakes every 2 hours.

[minimatron]

Sorry but my dd1 is 3 and she still wakes once a night most of the time! She gets up for toilet runs or nightmares or just wants to sleep with us. Shes always been a poor sleeper..always! DD2 however has been sleeping through most nights from about 13 months. She just had a period where she was waking again recently but that was due to cutting 3 of her eye teeth at once.
Good luck!

[Lily Dust]

Hi lisaandshaun

My DD is similar age to your little one and she still wakes for a feed (usually) after about 8 or 9 hours, has a feed then back to sleep, shes BF. She goes in fazes though, might be 9 hrs this week, might wake after 6 next week. Sorry, dont know the answer.

[Visitor7]

DD1 didn't start sleeping through the night until she was around 9 months old. Until then, she would feed every 2-3 hours around the clock.
DD2 was sleeping through the night at 5 weeks of age. Verrrrrry different babies!

[mbear]

Nearly 12 months old for #4 and still up twice a night....grrrrrrrrr

[~Kaz~]

I guess it depends on how you define 'sleep through'. It's different at different ages and for different parents depending on what they expect/want/need themselves. I think waking once a night at 7.5 months is pretty good, awesome actually, but it's all relative cause I only have my DS's history to compare it to and he was waking two to three times a night at that age and even a couple of weeks ago he was still waking a couple of times a night and instead of resettling quickly, it was taking 1-2 hours each wake up for him to go back down. We've also had weeks of 2 hourly waking etc etc. He got worse as he got older! In terms of sleeping through for more than 7 hours though, he did it a few times when he was 1-2 months old, then twice when he was 8 months old and then just this last week gone (14 months old) he's slept through about 3 times. We are still up some nights, others he has trouble going to sleep, this morning he was up at 5:30am so he's not consistent yet and this could be another 'phase'. I've had my hopes dashed too many times before to get them up too high again now

It's hard cause you want to know when the sleeping through will happen but it's impossible to predict. They're all so different. I feel/felt like I was running a marathon except I didn't/don't know how long I'd have to keep going. There's no way to pace yourself through sleep deprivation anyway. It just sucks.

[Ozziehoffy]

my DS will be 11 months next week & doesn't sleep through. he's BF & still wakes every 2 hours.

I feel your pain! Elijah is 13 months and yeah he's a shocker still! 3ish hours is brilliant for him lol. Last night was 11:50, 1:20 - didn't go back to sleep for about an hour - was 2:30 last look at clock, then up again at 5, 6, 7....lol.... I give up by then and also Oskar was going to be waking up anyway. Oskar, on the other hand was brilliant! Slept through hmmmm from about 3/4 months? Was fabulous and he's still a good sleeper most nights.