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what age did your baby sleep through the night?

Started by adriel , author of the mommyhood memos 9/28/2010 12:42:24 AM

At what age did your baby sleep through the night?

Did you let it happen on its own? Or did you help baby to learn?

Is there anything you'd do differently next time??

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Reply by Lisa

author of The Last Degree 9/28/2010 6:16:28 AM

My twins slept through at 11 weeks. I actually wrote a post about it few weeks back. We tried to keep to a four hourly scedule then maximised the daily feeds while reducing nights. Hard work!

http://thelastdegree.com/2010/09/when-mummy-and-daddy-slept-through/


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Reply by Trench Mommy

author of From The Trenches Of Motherhood 9/28/2010 8:14:48 AM

I have 3 kids and they started sleeping through the night at the following weeks, 9, 7, & 6.

I used the BabyWise Method with schedule and flexibility mixed for a great result!  I highly recommend buying or begging for the book ON BECOMING BABYWISE!  It is worth it's weight in gold and then some!


Reply by adriel

author of the mommyhood memos 10/17/2010 4:34:02 AM

Levi did that too. He was amazing until 4 months and then I SUFFERED through the next few months. At 7 months I decided I was through with getting up at night. I was about to lose it!

All it took was a few minutes of crying for two nights and he was sleeping through. (And it wasn't "emotional" crying it was "protest" crying, if you know what I mean.) I think it was about 20 minutes the first night and 10 the second... but truthfully I can't even remember the details (from only six weeks ago!). Anyway, it was so easy that I wished I had done it sooner!! (Though maybe that's also because he was well and truly ready.)

The reason I hadn't done it sooner was that my doc had said breastfed babies sometimes still need a feed at night until they are a year so I was still feeding him... going on her advice. (Even though he used to sleep through...)

Then I got exhausted and crazy and decided to go with my gut and wean that feed. I was so glad when I did.

But 2-3 times sounds like a lot. Can you cut her back to 1 night feed? And then when she's established on solids cut out the last one? That's what I'd do. :)

Btw, I should also say that I had sleep-trained Levi when he was 2-3 months so he already knew how to go to sleep on his own (I didn't feed-to-sleep or anything like that). So he did already have that skill down... just had to break him of the habit of the actual waking up. Taking away the feed also took away his incentive to wake up I guess!! 

What do you think??


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Brandy said ...
My almost 5 month old daughter now wakes up every 2 or 3 hours to feed (prior to being 4 months old she only woke once a night). 


Reply by Holly

author of thatonecrazyfamily 11/4/2010 4:05:30 PM

Christmas Eve my 7 week old son slept all night. It was the greatest gift EVER! And since then, he's always been a good sleeper...half of why my husband doesn't want to have another child - he's freaked out we will get a non-good sleeper since we've been spoiled. 


Reply by claire

author of Sexified! 12/29/2010 8:33:35 PM

My 2 year old still wakes up during the night sometimes usually because of night mares and my 7 month old has never slept through.  I don't think it's worth fussing over sleep because once they get older they'll definitely sleep through and It's part of being a Mum to be tired all the time it just doesn't matter.  My thoughts anyway.


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