When did your baby sleep through?

James started sleeping through around 8wks, we didn't do anything to try and get him to sleep through.

Kiya was "taught" to sleep through at 6mths by the nurses at MotherCraft (she'd been doing it on and off from 6 weeks, but then we developed the bad habit of her sleeping in my bed on me)

Josiah started sleeping through at 15mths, I started offering him cold water instead of a warm bottle of milk at 3am when he began mucking around at that feed (so didn't need it anymore) and he decided that wasn't worth waking for.

Xavier isn't sleeping through yet, he's feeding at least twice a night.

fattartsrock wrote: Jake still wakes once, at least

Annie, you need to train Jake like I (without intending to) trained Josiah!

From the moment Xavier was born, Nat started waking up to Josiah and I stopped. Now, the few times Josiah does get up in the night, he goes around to Daddy's side of the bed!

Rhiannon has been sleep through since about 8wks....only wakes if she is in pain (teething)

Lily has been a super duper sleeper and slept right through at 4 1/2 weeks, and now she sleeps 12 hours a night, she is a dream child and loves her sleep like her Mummy.

Hannah and Briona both were waking once at 6mos and didn't stop that until they were weaned at 11mos Krystiana was sleeping through at 6-8 weeks but hasn't done it once since 3 1/2 mos, just before we introduced solids. She usually still wakes twice a night, although one of those is after 5am so not tooooo bad. I just wish she'd sleep through again! and wonder if she's getting enough solids?

I'm not too gung-ho strict on our 'routine' but Erin really seemed to thrive on having things relatively organised, was just thinking about what we may have done to 'assist' her sleeping through... but brain is too fuzzy

AndysMummy wrote: Remember that in all the sleep studies etc 5 hours is considered sleeping though the night!

I didn't know that! Gina sleeps for 5 hour stretches no probs but does wake up once. It's because she normally goes down at around 8-9pm so ends up waking up at around 1-2am for a feed and then sleeps again thru to the morning. I don't actaully mind it as I need to get up anyways - boobs hurt too much from the milk (but refuse to leak it out on their own! )

Isla has just started sleeping 8 hrs without waking in the last 2 weeks, probably about 50% of the time. She still wakes for a feed around 10-10.30pm, then sleeps til 6.30-7am.

We didn't do a dreamfeed when Elle was younger as she'd wake fully and then be restless for the rest of the night. At 3mths she'd sleep 7pm to 1am then to 5am then to 7am. Then at 4mths she did 7pm to 3am to 6.30am. At about 5mths she did 7pm to 5am to 7am. Then she started going backwards and waking anywhere between 1 and 4.

At 7.5 mths we introduced a dreamfeed. She was still breastfed but if I picked her up she woke so I did the dreamfeed with a bottle and simply propped her up in bed. She slept through from that point. I droped the dreamfeed 2 weeks later and she has slept through every night since.

I personally think sleeping through is a rhythym and some babies take longer than others to learn it. In our case, the dreamfeed ensured she was full enough to transition throgh the light sleep phases during the early hours without waking. Once her body was in the rhythm of it the dreamfeed was no longer needed.

(Edited as should've typed didn't rather than did in the first sentence! Whoops)

That is what worked for us but all babies are different.

HTH

Edited by FionaS