Sleeping thru the night

[lisaandshaun]

Hi,
I am interested in finding out at what age their little one decided to sleep all night? My DD is 7.5mths old and still wakes for a bottle.

Thanks
Lisa

[Sammiejane]

Im not going to give you the answer that you want to hear at all, but MJ is now over 2 years and still wake once a night, not for a feed though.
Now i just grab the heat pack, heat it slightly and give it to her and she goes off to sleep again, so i am up for 5 minutes tops.
She has never been a great sleeper though!

I found that as soon as i accepted it and figured that it would not go on for ever, i didnt mind it so much, but the more anxious i was that everyone elses child was sleeping better and why wasnt she etc etc it was worse - for me iykwim
I now love the fact that she wants me, cos it will be very soon and she wont need me at all

[feeb]

DS1 was BF and didn't sleep thru till 11 months! DS2 still wakes up also BF.

[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.

[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!

[deletedit]

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.....

[Jasper76]

DD1 is 3.5 years old and still wakes most nights. Sometimes she's thirsty, needs the toilet, a cuddle whatever.

DD2 is 7 months and feeds a gazillion times a night.

We don't do sleeping through in our house

[Miss E]

My DS started sleeping through at around 3 months, but then when he got to about 5.5 months it all stopped. For awhile there we were getting up upto 7 or 8 times a night. It's settled back down again over the last couple of months, some nights he sleeps through and some nights he wakes once or twice.

I'd always thought that once they started sleeping through that was it and they would just do it from then on in, but not in our case....

[OceanPrincess]

I'd always thought that once they started sleeping through that was it and they would just do it from then on in, but not in our case....

I think a lot of people assume that Miss E! I did too!!

My DD started sleeping about 7pm-3 or 4am at about 12months... before that she'd often need one, two or more resettles during the night. We dropped our night feeds at around 7mths and she was still waking...

From 12mths til now (15mths) we are endeavouring to stetch that 4am wake up time back out to 7am... but the closest we ever get is about 6.20am. Some nights, prob just in the last month, she does 7pm-6.20am with no noise but others she's awake a few times.

Varies every night...