When did you baby sleep through the night?

Question

My little man is 3 months old and still gets up once (which I think is normal for that age). But when your baby slept through the night was all on their own or did you have to do things to coax them to sleep longer?

Answer 1

My baby didn't sleep through the night until she was about 6 months. I would try to keep her up 3-4 hours prior to her bedtime, then I give her a bottle and she'll fall asleep.  

Answer 2

My daughter slept through at about 7 months.  (From around 11 p.m. to 6 a.m.)  I didn't have to do anything special to make it happen.

(She did begin waking again briefly at around 11 months.  I opted to comfort/rock her, but not nurse her when she woke, and after a week or so she began sleeping again.)

Answer 3

waiting and praying it happens soon.

Miss T- email me and tell me what you did, please!!!!!

Answer 4

Your boys still very young and your lucky he gets up only once at that age. My son started to sleep completely through the night when he was 11 months. He was getting up for one bottle from 4 months till then.  

Answer 5

as well i am still waiting.... i wish it would hurry up and happen though i have school fixing to start and man 6 in the morning comes early....good luck

Answer 6

i am one of the lucky ones my son, with no coaxing, has slept through the night since he was born!! he goes to bed at 10:30 and he wakes up to eat at 7:30  

Answer 7

My daughter started sleeping from about 11pm-8am at 8 weeks. What a relief, even if it doesn't last forever, it's been great.  

Answer 8

I have a 7, 4, and 2 year old. What do you mean they sleep through the night???

Answer 9

my baby just started sleeping through the night (a couple days shy of 8 months). it happened when solids started becoming a bigger part of her diet (breakfast, lunch & dinner). from 3 1/2 months until now she got up once around 2/3am to eat.

I never tried any of the tricks to get her to sleep through the night, although i was tempted. in the end, i decided it was easier for me to feed her and have her go to sleep then deal with a crying baby at 3am. I was HOPING she would just sleep through the night on her own, and, it seems she has (fingers crossed it continues...).  

Answer 10

My baby started sleeping right through the night at about 3 months old. We got him onto a really good sleep schedule right from the get-go. Which was hard at first because he was backwards when he was born (slept all day, up all night) but we started doing some sleep training with him (which is where you keep them awake for certain amounts of time during the day) and after about 3 weeks of it, I got him to sleep right through the night. He is now 7 months old, and it has only been the odd time where he'll wake up in the middle of the night to eat. It's awesome!!  

Answer 11

8 weeks. on his own and ever since. he is 2, he tried testing us a few times in between, but once we checked on him and realized he was fine, we just left him, he taught himself how to go back to sleep. Sometimes even know, I hear him at night singing or talking but he stays in his bed and eventually goes back to sleep

oh and he was breastfed until 1 year, so that didn't make any difference, he fed good before bed and when he woke up. He was in the 95% and up percentile since birth so he was just fine skipping a middle of the night feeding.

Answer 12

6 weeks. on his own.  but now that he's 8 months old hes getting up every night at 2. i think hes just making up for him sleeping through the night at an early age.lol.    

Answer 13

All 3 of my kids slept through the night when they were 2 months...I didnt have to do anything special. Just give them there bath, feed them and put them to bed. They didnt need any extra cereal in bottles or anything...I'm pregnant with #4 and hope this one works out like the other 3 did...=)

Answer 14

I have a good sleeper on my hands-  he was regularly sleeping 6 hours at stretch at a month and by two months that was more like 9.  Now at 3 months he sleep 10.5-11.  I am not sure it's anything I do, though I'd love to take credit.  We have just always kept it really calm at night and active during the day.  We try to keep him up for a good chunk of time before he goes down for the night, though I'd never force a tired baby awake, we just have a routine that keeps him stimulated and includes play time, a walk, a bath, reading, etc.  We still do a small bottle while he's sleeping right before we turn in for the night, but we're slowly decreasing the amount of formula in that bottle so hopefully that feeding will end soon.  but the dreamfeed is often recommended to keep the baby asleep longer.

Answer 15

Hi,

My James was over four months but that was mainly because I didn't know at the time that I could teach him to sleep through the night!

It was a baby sleep audio program recommended by a friend that finally saved us. We followed the advice and began by creating a baby sleep routine which included bathtime, dimming of the lights, putting James into his crib, final nappy change and then lullabies. We also made recommended changes to his naps during the day and used some of the other recommended techniques. Within two weeks he was sleeping through the night most nights with just the odd night where he would just wake once!

Definitely start by creating a good baby sleep routine though and you could find that solves most of your baby sleep problems.

Good luck!

Kelly

Answer 16

My son is 18 months and he slept 'through the night' when he was 8 months, but still occasionally gets up at night. That is what being a mom is all about.......I know its hard!

Answer 17

My daughter is 3mos. and started sleeping through the night at 2mos. I put her down at 10pm-11pm so I think the later bedtime helps.

Answer 18

6 weeks. He still is at 7 months, but every once in awhile he wakes up, eats and then goes back to sleep. My son didn't need to be "coaxed" but I do have a good routine with him, he eats, bathes, and then lays in bed with my husband and I until he gets sleepy. Then we put him in his crib and he sleeps through the night. We used to co-sleep until he started rolling, and then he hated it, so now he loves being in his crib. I still think that it's normal for your son's age though.  

Answer 19

We were lucky.  Ours started sleeping straight through at 5 weeks.  I'm not kidding.  It scared us to death that first time because we put her down at 9:30, we went to bed exhausted, then woke up at 6 the next morning and realized that she hadn't stirred all night.  Our first thought was SIDS, raced to the crib in a panic, and found her sleeping peacefully.  Now she is 4 months, and sleeps from 8pm to 7am without a peep.  The trade off is, it's nearly impossible to get her to nap during the day.  She is wide open from morning till night.   Just give your son a little time.  If he's only waking up once, I'm sure he'll get over it in a couple more months.  Good luck to you!  

Answer 20

I got blessed with baby number 2. He sleeps when I sleep, not the other way around. He started sleeping through the night at 2wks with no coaxing. I think he's my reward for my first though. My first didn't sleep through the night until he was well past 6 months old, and that was only after cheating and putting ceral in his bottle. (Bad advice from pediatrician.... I now know much more and wouldn't do that again.)

Answer 21

8 months, my son started to sleep through the night occasionally. He is now 11 months is sleeping through the night with out a problem. I love it!!! Do not have to drag myself out of bed in the middle of the night to see what he need.

Answer 22

My daughter began sleeping through the night at around four months on her own. All children are different though. I would say that it is reasonable to expect them to sleep through the night once they become fairly active, i.e. crawling, rolling over and standing. If you keep your child active and allow fewer naps, this should help.

Answer 23

My daughter started sleeping through the night at 6 weeks....but that only lasted about a month. Since then (she's 11 months now), she goes off and on with periods where she can go weeks without waking up in the middle of the night, then she can go for a month waking up 1-2 times a night. Right now she's in the waking up  1-2 times a night phase. I no longer feed her to go back to sleep, but I usually do have to pat her and occasionally rock her back to sleep.  

Answer 24

I have the best baby in the world and he has been sleeping through the night since he was 2 weeks old!!  I put him to bed around 10:30 and he wakes up around 5am (still 7 hours or so, so I'll take it!) and then again about 3 hours later so I get a chance to get some sleep again!

Answer 25

Still waiting.......

Answer 26

a month old and he just did it on his own..we're just very very lucky....he's almost 8 months and still sleeping the same