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When did your baby start sleeping through the night?

I am wondering when your baby started sleeping through the night. I know everyone baby is different. I am just trying to get a ball park idea. My baby is 3 wks so I know it will be a little longer yet. Did you do anything to help them start sleeping through the night?

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1. My son started sleeping through the night at around 4 months.

2. My son did it on his own around 5 months. We hadn't changed anything in his routine...he just slept through the night one night!

My daughter didn't sleep through the night until she was 13 months. She only started then because I had enough and let her cry it out until she fell asleep! Over a year and still waking up 2-3 times a night was exhausting me!! I couldn't function any longer...she was fine after about 3 nights and is almost two and sleeps just fine! I can even leave her in her toddler bed awake and say Good Night and leave!!

My son is now 5 and always has been a great sleeper...I have to wake him up most mornings!

3. The first time he was 4 weeks, and then did it on and off from 2 weeks after that. He officially slept through the night every night (almost) at around 6 weeks. Even though I was breastfeeding, I did formula at night because it holds the babies over longer.

4. A baby usually starts sleeping through the nights the a few months after their born, usually around 4 to 6 months

5. My son was about 11 months old when he started consistently STTN. I did something like the No-Cry Sleep Solution to get him sleeping better.

My daughter is almost 18 months old and has slept 8+ hours maybe 10 times in her life, and that estimate is being generous.

6. We followed eat-play-sleep cycles putting our twins down drowsy but awake so they could learn to self -soothe and fall asleep on their own before they became used to any other way of sleeping.

They were sleeping 8 hours straight at night by 9 weeks of age, and were (and still are) breastfed.

There are many books on sleep training early (Babywise, the No Cry Sleep Solution, Happiest Baby on the Block) but what they all have in common is the eat-play-sleep cycle and putting them to bed drowsy but awake.

Youtube video on Eat-Sleep-Play (although eat-play-sleep is usually better for getting them to sleep well early).

A lot of people on this site don't like sleep training for newborns, but people who use these methods have happier calmer more content children. Those who don't like that then say those infants are only pretending to be happy. Which to me is crazy!

So anyway, I have twins, used early sleep training, and they BOTH became excellent sleepers very early, and are about the happiest easy going babies you have ever seen. I personally don't think 7 month olds are good enough actors to "fake" being happy. lol.

People who don't use any sort of sleep training method generally say things like "there is not telling when" and give you a horror story about how their 2 year old still wakes up 8 times during the night to help comfort you. Or better yet "welcome to motherhood!"

It is up to you, no sleep training and take your chances, or sleep training and excellent chance of a great sleeping very easy going happy baby. Either way it all works out.

Do swaddle though if you are not. Kiddopotamus swaddles are great. Also keep the room dark, pitch dark, although this matters more as they get older.

7. Our daughter started sleeping through the night at 8 months, we didn't change anything. Before that she was up every 2-4 hours for nursing.

All babies are different :) My sisters baby slept through the night since the day she was born but she feeds her formula so that might be why..

8. Not until around 7 months. they did it a few times before then, but not consistently.

9. My son started sleeping through the night around 3 months. As a new mom I asked the same question so many times :). Breastfeeding definitely helped me. After introducing solids, feed your baby with solids at night. Hope that helps!!!!...Good luck!!!!

10. I must say the eat-play-sleep idea is a good concept. I personally do not use any method but my son does eat and play for hours on end before getting sick of it and just falling asleep. he's 8 weeks old in a few days and will go down around 830-9pm and sleep 5-6 hours before needing to nurse, and then back to sleep for 4 hours..not sure what your definition of sleeping through the night is. also, if he has formula around 8 or so he will sometimes sleep 7 hours before waking up to be fed again. another tip, if you have just fed, burped, and changed him/her, and you put them back to bed, let them fuss a little, don't run to them at the first peep, they are ok. I made the mistake of jumping everytime he made a peep for the first 3 weeks, and then i got so exhausted i just could not do it anymore and i let him fuss. after about 10 minutes of fussing he would fall asleep and be just fine..it will be hard the first few times, but as long as theyve been fed and changed, if its the middle of the night put them back in the crib and go back to bed..they will fall asleep on their own and will get used to the idea that at night its sleep time...sorry to be so long winded..good luck and congratulations!

11. First one- 4 months.

2nd is 9 months and still wakes every 2-3 hours to nurse.

12. Just this past week!!!! She's nearly four months old. We did have a couple of nights here and there in the month prior. My ped stated that there's a trend with weight. Most babies start drinking around 5 ounces at about 13 or 14 pounds and that's when they can go all night without being hungry.

13. Both of my children slept through the night (11pm until about 6am) at about 8 or 9 months old.

14. I agree with Ivy's answer, mine slept through the night from 6 weeks and still does now (at 12 weeks). I followed "Babywise", by following their principles the book promises night sleep between 6-10 weeks of age. Sleeping is all related to feeding. If you train your baby from an early age to feed well (at least 30 mins at each nursing period) then your baby will achieve full, unrested naps. By 12 weeks they should be sleeping through if you follow this principle. People have told me a million times that I am just lucky - and guess what, Babywise said that people would say this - but I take full credit for my success in putting my baby into a routine and that is purely the single reason why he sleeps through the night.

15. Both of mine just did it on their own- there isn't really anything you can do to make it happen faster. My daughter was the worse sleeper lol she didn't sleep through the night until almost 6 months. My son was sleeping through the night at 13 weeks.

16. My baby actually started sleeping through the night the day we came home from the hospital but I refused to let him do it since he got jaundiced when we was in the hospital so I wanted him to eat good. So I always woke him up 2 times the whole night. I let him sleep through the night when he was 4 months old, I stop waking him up to eat with his doctor's permission. He is almost 8 months old now and lately he has been waking in the middle of the night and not sleeping good. I think he is just teething though.

17. At 13 months he slept 6 hours straight for the first time ever. He now makes it 5-6 hours about 3 times a week.

18. My daughter started sleeping through the night once she started eating solids on a regular basis, she wasn't ready for them until she was 9 months old, before then she refused them and she was breastfed so she woke up even more considering breastmilk digests quicker than formula. So up until my daughter was 9 months old she had me up 2-3 times a night, but that's what it takes to be a parent!

I'd also like to add that I toddler bed trained Marley around 16-17 months I believe and now all I have to do is lay her down, cover her up, and tell her goodnight, and she puts herself to sleep everynight! That's a godsend for when our next baby is born!