Our 9-week old Henry hits the hay about 8:00 each night and sleeps through til about 1am. Mom feeds him and after that he’s up about every 2-3 hours. I know this is perfectly normal; I’m just wondering what other parents’ experiences were as far as their infant’s sleeping patterns. Also, what was it like when Junior slept all the way through? Did it happen all at once or was it more gradual, sleeping a little more each night? And when did it happen?
Both my sons started at about six months. Those were the two longest six month periods in history. This was also around the time when they started eating some cereal instead of just milk. There’s probably some correlation, but I understand it’s not a good idea to start cereal earlier in order to promote sleeping because their little digestive systems aren’t ready until around six months.
My daughter Matilda started sleeping through the night at just under two months. :> Yes, I know we’re lucky parents. She’s a perfect child.
My youngest is just over 8 months old and he has been sleeping through the night since ~2 months old. Still does. He gets his last bottle between 9 and 11 and he wont wake up until between 630 and 730. He USED to go back to sleep after his breakfast bottle. Now he waits until after his 2nd bottle for his morning nap. He has been eating cereal through the bottle since 3 months. He has recently started eating cherios, crackers and them Zwieback(?) sticks. And green beans, he LOVES green beans. Freak.
Four months seems to be what’s quoted by doctors and infant care books. Both my kids hit that mark almost exactly.
My son kept getting us up every 2-3 hours untill he was 6 months old. Then one night it happened. We put him back to bed around midnight and he slept until 6 a.m. Thank god my husband was home because I was petrefied to go and check on him. I was sure he was dead.I sent the hubby in there and I was able to start breathing again when everything was well. My girls on the other hand went to sleep when they were a week old at ten p.m, got up for a two a.m. feeding and slept until 6 or 7. It was heaven.
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Aaron’s just over three weeks old, and he goes to sleep from between 10 to midnight, and wakes up every three to four hours.
Robin
1st child (now 10) from 6 weeks. I thought all my Christmas’ had come at once.
2nd child (now 2) about 6 months and it was obvious I had used up all my Christmas’.
But then again, these two girls are opposite in almost everything, so I suppose it was destined to occur.
Except if she’s ill or teething, our girl has been sleeping through from 6:30pm till 6:30am from 2 months old.
My daughter is thirteen years old and she still wakes up in the middle of the night.
But I’m hoping she’ll grow out of it by the time she graduates.
Primafloret the Elder – occasionally when he was 5.
P the Younger – 5 in October and never has slept through the night. Specialises in going to sleep at 10.30 and waking at about 6am. Summer time he’s up at 5 am.
Neither kid took day sleeps after about the age of 1 year.
Yours in chronic sleep deprivation
Primaflora
With our seventh, got it down to 3 nights. Practise does really make perfect!
Our daughter, who nursed into toddlerhood, didn’t sleep through the night until she was about 11 months old. I didn’t see it as a terrible thing. Since I stay at home with her, it was a nice quiet time, nursing her in the wee hours of the morning and putting her back to bed.
I don’t really remember with flodjunior. I think he slept through the night for a time starting when he was four or five months old. But then at almost eight months old, he started waking again because he had atopic eczema and woke up itching too bad to fall asleep again. The reason I’m thinking it was at those ages was because the first corresponds to when the health clinic nurses were telling me he “had to” have solid food in spite of the lack of interest, so he would sleep through the night, and he already was; and the second is when we took him to visit my family, and my grandmother’s hairspray made his eczema much worse. (Which was obvious to everyone but Grandma, who told us we were being hysterical 
) Once we found a good oral antihistamine and a useful skin treatment for him, he began sleeping through again. But those were some of the longest weeks of our lives, especially for the little guy!
Totnak was eight or nine months old. They say babies stop sleeping through the night during growth spurts, but the first nine months of that child’s life were one enormous growth spurt :eek:
In both cases, the boys just dropped a night waking rather abruptly. Mamma notices this if she’s nursing!
My first two started when they hit 12 pounds. I had big babies, though, so #1 slept through at about 9 weeks, and #2 actually slept through from the first night home (11 pound baby).
My younger two co-sleep with us, and they are both more wakeful. 3 1/2 yo sleeps through, but Babypoet (1 1/2) still wakes for a bottle. I think if they weren’t sleeping with us, they’d sleep better, but I do like those little warm feet on my back.
~karol
Six months. The longest six months of my life. He only slept through after two nights of letting him cry. This is not cruel, as he was fed and dry. It’s what his doctor told me to do.
Six Weeks.
As a new newborn, my soon would wake up every 2-3 hours and then nurse for at least an hour before he’d nod back off. I was getting ready to go back to work and could NOT face the prospect of doing so on only three hours sleep every day. So I started feeding him a small bit of cereal mixed with breast milk each night. He loved it, never had any problems with digestion, and slept through the night (10pm–6am) from the very first night I did it. I thought I’d died and gone to heaven.
I’m in shock reading these responses saying things like 8 months or 11 months—I would have lost my mind! All you sleepy parent’s have my utmost admiration.
bella
Our son slept for 8 hours in a row last night. Happy day!
He just turned 4 months old on Saturday, so he hit that 4 month target pretty much on the nose.
My first daughter slept through at 6 weeks from around midnight until 7. Like Qwisp the first time it happened I was scared of going to check on her in case something terrible had happened.
My twins are 21 months and they started sleeping from midnight until 7 at around 6 weeks too. Occasionally one of them will still wake up through the night, normally at about 2am, but for the most part I’ve been very lucky. I’m sure I’ll be paying for it when they get into their teens! 