When did your baby start sleeping through the night?

choccybikkie_2

DD1... 5 months
DS ....6 weeks
DD2 ....12 weeks
DD3.....12 weeks BUT.. with DD3 that only lasted a month then she started waking 1 or 2 times. She's now 6 months and goes to bed at 7pm and wakes about 3am quick BF then back to sleep til about 6.30am.

skintchick

Not having a go at anyone, just thought I'd put this here for discussion.

http://thestir.cafemom.com/baby/112381/everything_you_know_about_sleeping

Jewel_2

skintchick wrote: »

Not having a go at anyone, just thought I'd put this here for discussion.

http://thestir.cafemom.com/baby/112381/everything_you_know_about_sleeping

That's an excellent article. I wish more new parents would stop beating themselves up about babies sleeping all the way through the night - it's not natural or unnatural, it just does or doesn't happen.

It would be wiser to concentrate on how you as a parent can get the sleep you need, because that's what is important.

I won't touch a book again if I have another one.

Gillby1

I agree. I spent ages worrying about getting my little boy to sleep through the night (mainly coz i was exhausted!). But at around 6 months he started sleeping through for the odd night, and now at 7 months he sleeps from approx 7.30pm to 7am almost every night! We don't do anything different now, so i think he just started sleeping through when he was developmentally able.

It's good to read that some of you who have more than one child have had babies that are totally different re sleeping patterns, as there's a chance that my next babies fist few months won't be quite so difficult. As long as they aren't worse, or course!

Gilly

goingsenile

onlyroz wrote: »

I'd be worried about this. My midwife told me that if a newborn goes more than about 4 hours without a feed they could end up weak with hunger and won't be able to feed properly when they do wake up.

Well my daughter is now 6.5 years old and appears to be none the worse!!!
Inidivudal midwifes have a range of differnt views about all different aspects of parenting ( I work with them in a proffesional capasity) , but most would agree that one of the most important skills a parent can learn is to respond to their own individual babies needs. For my daughter that was feeding when she woke up.... it would have suited me better to feed her more regulary during the night as anyone who has breastfeed will know, going 7 odd hours without feeding is not the most comfortable!!!!

Js_Other_Half

Ds started doing 11pm-7am around 5 months, he then started doing 7pm-7am at 11 months, just as I was going back to work 2 1/2 days a week.

JodyBPM

My DD slept through 9pm - 7am at 2 weeks, and my DS at 9 weeks.

Ridiculously, I actually went to the health visitor when my DS was 6 wks old concerned that he wasn't sleeping through yet, and she just looked at me as if I was mad! But my only experience was DD who was SUCH a good sleeper! Even 9wks for DS I'm lead to believe is early!

I think its a mixture of different things that helps them sleep. Nature is one of them - you are either given good sleepers (or perhaps more accurately, babies who are good at settling back to sleep without any fuss should they wake up) or ones who find it harder. But nuture makes a difference too - calm, comfortable environments, blackout blinds etc all help. Both my children were in the nursery, which is just off of our room within a week or so, which does go against current advice of having them in the same room as you for the first six months, but that seemed to work for us. I also think that me be pretty grumpy in the night helped - I was never tempted to coo, cuddle and play at 4am, simply feed in the dark, then back to sleep!

Jewel_2

JodyBPM wrote: »

My DD slept through 9pm - 7am at 2 weeks, and my DS at 9 weeks.

Ridiculously, I actually went to the health visitor when my DS was 6 wks old concerned that he wasn't sleeping through yet, and she just looked at me as if I was mad! But my only experience was DD who was SUCH a good sleeper! Even 9wks for DS I'm lead to believe is early!

I think its a mixture of different things that helps them sleep. Nature is one of them - you are either given good sleepers (or perhaps more accurately, babies who are good at settling back to sleep without any fuss should they wake up) or ones who find it harder. But nuture makes a difference too - calm, comfortable environments, blackout blinds etc all help. Both my children were in the nursery, which is just off of our room within a week or so, which does go against current advice of having them in the same room as you for the first six months, but that seemed to work for us. I also think that me be pretty grumpy in the night helped - I was never tempted to coo, cuddle and play at 4am, simply feed in the dark, then back to sleep!

Good Godiva! :eek: My DD was in a cotbed from three weeks. In a separate room. I don't coo and cuddle and play at 4am either, never did. I was a right grouch! Six months of quietly to bed, quietly going to the loo ....

bylromarha

Jewel wrote: »

Good Godiva! :eek: My DD was in a cotbed from three weeks.

This 6 month advice has been in place for a while - DS is 6 and was certainly the advice I was given from more than 1 source.

We ignored it too

For others it works. We never would have coped as I woke with every tiny sniffle baby made and couldn't sleep for another hour after I woke.

Threebabes

DS was about 4!! It was a nightmare, he fed through the night from about 10 months and then just woke for a dummy or fancied waking up. The girls were a bit better. DH and I didnt sleep properly for years :-/.