Sleeping thru the night

[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.

[Cally]

At 9 months DD dropped the overnight feed and would sleep the whole way through. But not anymore, over 2.5 and is up most nights, usually just a quick cuddle and back to bed, sometimes needs a bit longer if she's had a nightmare though. 4 times last night - fingers crossed tonight is better!

[Indadhanu]

About 18 months here for 8pm-6am.

Was sleeping 7pm-3am at about 14 months. Which was sleeping through for us since she was up 5 or more times a night until that point!

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First child was The Perfect Baby (wish I knew it back then, I would have appreciated it more) and slept through from about 4 or 5 months and has been the epitome of the perfect sleeper ever since. First time she slept through ... OMG ... I had engorgement from hell. Snatched her up the instant she woke up to relieve it.

Second one is a truly horrid sleeper and started sleeping through the night only after I stopped breastfeeding at 14 months and she had her sippy cup of water in with her at night. Mind you at 14 months we were lucky to get her into bed before midnight, usually well after. She still quite regularly refuses to sleep, the complaining from her room gets to us and so she ends up with us at 11pm watching TV in her PJs until we can convince her that bed really is a valid option for little girls. We spent the ENTIRE of her first year sleep-deprived.

[FabFiona]

Sleeping through the night and dropping the night feed have been two different things for us. My LO dropped his middle of the night bottle at around 3.5 months on his own. That accompanied a period of sleeping from 6.30 pm to 6.30 am. I thought I had it made!!

However now he wakes anywhere from 1 - 3 times. Not for a feed but for other reasons which I haven't worked out yet. I'm assuming for comfort as he normally settles pretty quickly.

[mbear]

I guess it depends on how you define 'sleep through'.

.yeah, tend to agree. If mister man did 5 hr stint at 7.5mths, i would be pretty chuffed......actually, even now, to do a 5hr stint i consider it a good night.....