When did your babies start sleeping through the night?

[strongminded]

Hi All

My son is almost 8months old and still doesnt sleep through the night. He wakes up at least 2 to 3 times for a feed. Because he is feeding at night he doesnt eat or drink much during the day. I tried not feeding him at night and just giving hin water but this did not work.

Any advice

 

[Holi]

How longs a piece of string?! Well my first started sleeping through around 4-5months. My second has only just started really at 1yr, and she's still his and miss! Do whatever you need to do to get some sleep, he will soon get the hang of eating more in day and drinking less at night. It will happen eventually! X

 

[Mel32]

14 months in amd dont think hes ever slept a full night! Usually wakes every 2 hours ish or ends up in our bed.

 

[strongminded]

Thanks all

Looks like i just have to brave through it lol

 

[Blueclass]

Mine is 1 next week and does not sleep through either I'm afraid. Most nights she ends up in with us as its the only ti.e we k ow she will sleep. She slept through 1 night last week only to then start her normal wake up pattern the next night.

 

[fcroxy]

My oldest didn't sleep through until about 18m/2y!! But even now at 3.5y she still wakes at least once a night, she does have maybe 1 night a week where she will sleep fully without waking me. My youngest who's almost 10 months still doesn't sleep through and will sometimes have 1-2 bottles a night. Saying that the last few weeks she has had 3 nights where she's slept 8pm/5am but they are very random. It does give me hope tho she will sleep through sooner than my oldest as it took ages to get that at night. X

 

[YorksLass]

Nearly 1 and still wakes at least once a night. It's up and down - she had a phase where she was wanting milk around when we went to bed and then slept until 6:30ish (which was bliss!). She got ill for about 3 weeks straight last month however and has since been waking two, maybe three times a night and up for good at between 5-6am. Never can predict haha! I think the light mornings and birds don't help the early waking time. Only thing is she's easier to settle than she was - 10mins instead of 40mins to an hour! Unless she decides to stand up every time you put her down...

 

[GF91]

My daughter is 27 months & she's only just started to sleep through! She still has the odd night where she'll wake 2/3 times!

 

[El1en]

22 months

 

[Rose83]

Daughter was 3 months. My son is 14 months and I'm still waiting, he wakes up several times a night and from 4/5am won't go back in his cot and will only sleep in bed beside me. I'm exhausted and desperate for him to start sleeping properly before baby 3 appears! X

 

[Lucyboo]

How many meals a day is your LO on? Maybe try and encourage him to eat more. It can't make things any worse x

 

[knopk@]

My eldest was 3 years old. He is a great sleeper now at 5.

 

[SoGentleNWild]

8 hours straight - ~ 8 months with DS. 10 weeks with DD.

Full night - DS was 2. DD hit 12-14 hours by 17 weeks.

DS was awful to get into a good sleep habit. So we started with very, very gentle sleep training with DD from day 1 - only sleeping in her crib, putting down not 100% asleep as DS had a very wicked startle reflex if you moved him asleep. And DD took to it like a charm.

 

[B81292]

Still not sleeping at 1.5
Wakes up at least once for milk but she's getting slightly better. Normally wakes at 10pm for milk and then hopefully that's it until she hears her dad get up for work at 545. Then she'll have more milk and sleeps til 830/9
On a bad night it will be 10pm and then between 1-3am.

 

[tinselcat]

about 11 months old after some sleep training. I couldn't take being woken up 6 times a night at that stage

 

[BunnyN]

Our oldest was about 2 when she started sleeping through more nights than not. She was night weaned at about 1 year old because I was pregnant again and finding night feeds too hard but it didnt make her sleep any better, it was just harder to get her back to sleep . Some find night weaning helps but it doesnt always.

 

[FBTTN8079]

The boys were about 14/16 weeks xx

 

[SLHRK]

My little girl is nearly 8 months and still wakes 2-3 times a night for a feed. Only recently she has started taking a little bit of porridge before bed and I give her a bottle of expressed milk instead of a breast feed after the porridge and she only wakes once if that! Might be worth a try x

 

[KHTW]

My LG is 21 months and still wakes up at least twice. God help me

 

[YorksLass]

My girl slept from 7 to 7 last night *faints*
That'll be a one-off.
Of course, partner and I woke constantly, being programmed to, and we were up for good at 5. Dammit.