Sleeping through the night - How old were yours?

MoonMama wrote: When they finally started sleeping through the night? Please someone tell me I am not the only one whos child seems to need VERY little sleep. He is consistently getting baby foods and rice cereal and all that now. We have tried everything, more naps during the day, less naps, earlier bed time, later bedtime, food shortly before bed, music, total silence, etc. But he still wakes up 3-4 times at night. Last night he was up from 11pm till 2am and this isn't out there for him to do. We play pretty hard all day long so you would think he was tired. He doesn't takes naps past about 2 PM except on rare occasion. I no I sound like I am complaining. I'm really not trying to it just seems like all my friends babies ether do or did sleep through the night (10-14 hours) from about 3-4 months on, really I just want to know that I am not alone here.

moped replied: Well Jack was about 5 months but that was a forced CIO on my part.

I do believe that Braedin is into a habit is all....I used to put Jack to bed and say to Tom, he will be up at 2:15 and it was exactly 2:15 when he would wake up.

HuskerMom replied: Keith was just shy of 3 mo when he started. I also let him CIO sometimes. Now I wonder if on the nights when he woke up several times a night if he would've gone back to sleep on his own if I had let him CIO. After a while he would cry for a few mins and then go back to sleep. I hated not getting up and just letting him cry but sometimes he just wasn't hungry or wet so he didn't really need to get up.

Calimama replied: 3 months for us, although now she's decided that she doesn't need sleep anymore.

hoosier momma replied: Mine was about 4-6 weeks, but when teething starting he was all over the place again.

PrairieMom replied: Benjamin was 12 weeks and he did it on his own. Alexis was still waking twice a night at 10 months. After a LONG month of CIO she is finally sleeping through , and just 11 months.

hopefulmomtobe replied: My kids were very young when they started sleeping through the night, it was around 3 and 4 months old. They say the trick is to lay them down when they are drowsy but not yet asleep so they can comfort themselves to sleep on their own. That way when they get a little older, they wont be dependant on their parents to get them to sleep. I tried it with all of my kids and it worked for me. Their is a book out there on it too, I forgot the name though.

moped replied: The Baby Whisperer is a good book actually!

hawkshoe replied: My boys were around 3 months old when they slept through the night.

When yours wakes up, what are you doing? Are you feeding him. If so, stop. Offer only water. Are you playing with him or turning on the lights. Try not to do either of those either. He needs to learn to pacify himself and put himself back to sleep.

Good luck.

Mommy2BAK replied: 6 weeks!

lovemy2 replied:
Dylan and actually Olivia too slept through from about 8 weeks - I agree 100% that the trick to getting them back to sleep in the middle of the nite on their own is making sure they know how to fall asleep on their own - I started a thread on CIO which got pretty heavily debated which wasn't my intention and it was my goof because at 8 weeks I wasn't letting him CIO but letting him cry to fall asleep when I put him down for the first time at nite....he now goes to sleep great, if he wakes during the nite he goes back to sleep on his own.....

His only issue now is he rolls from his tummy to his back and can't get back again so I sometimes have to go in and flip him back over and he goes right back to sleep

Olivia well she was always a good sleeper - both my kids suck their thumbs though too which I think is a HUGE help in them putting themselves back to sleep...

Yes, the Baby Whisperer is a great book, I used it...

Boo&BugsMom replied: I can't remember, but I want to say Tanner was about 5 months. He would still get up though to have a diaper changed, but after awhile I just stopped giving him bottles at night, changed him, and put him back to sleep. After a few nights he was fine and got use to just sleeping all the way through. For the most part though, we got lucky and he more or less put himself on a nice schedule. Do you think Braedin (sp?) could be over tired by that time??? Sometimes when they don't get enough sleep during the day it could result in being overtired and not wanting to sleep at night.

stella6979 replied: Avery just turned a year and she is just now starting to sleep through the night.
HALLELUJAH !!

boyohboyohboy replied: caleb starting sleeping thru the night at 8 weeks all by himself, no help needed
now jake on the other hand is 18 months old and has yet to sleep more then 3 hours at a time..
guess i just got lucky the first time around

msoulz replied: Jacob was 18 months before he slept through. Erin started around 4 months, then at 6 months until about 10 months she was up in the night again, then settled back down and now is the best sleeper in the house, putting in about 10 hours per night straight through. It is a marvelous change from her brother's sleep habits I must say!

mummy2girls replied: before jenna was 12 months she started.

ediep replied: Jason was about 5 months old before he slept through the night, but he was always a good napper

Emma has been sleeping through the night since about 3 months or so. SHe isn't really a good napper though.

I'd say since he is so young, he may be too overtired to relax. I know that if Emma doesn't get some sort of an afternoon nap, she is very restless at night.

I also don't go into her room at night unless she is really really crying. Last night she went to bed at 7pm, and then an hour later at 8 she was up screaming so i went to her. Gave her more bottle and rocked her. She went back to sleep and then at 4am she was up but not crying, she was just jabbering and cooing, so I didn't go into her room, and she went back to sleep on her own and woke up at 7am.

Cece00 replied: My oldest was over a yr. I contribute that (partly) to us trying to co-sleep. My other 3 did it between 6-9 weeks. I tried cosleeping with them, no one got any sleep, I stopped doing it, kids slept all night. So that worked for me. No more cosleeping, and we all got plenty of sleep

Our Lil' Family replied: 5 months old. But from 7 weeks-5 months he only woke once for a feeding and went right back to sleep...I was satisfied with that.

Crystalina replied: Evan is 3 and he still doesn't sleep throught the night 75% of the time.

gabriella replied:
I totally agree with this advice and will stick to this with our second child.

However, I have to say you lot are amazing. How on earth did you get them to sleep through the whole night, especially from 8 weeks!? My son was breast fed for a year and wanted feeding every 2hrs at night, for I can't remember how long He didn't actually start to sleep all the way through until he was 12 months.

We read many books and what worked was the advice mentioned. We didn't want to go with the cry it out approach, after reading so many views on this. Guess we did it the hard way then

MoonMama replied: Thanks everyone SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much, I'll give some of your tips a try and KYP.

Farelle replied:
My first didn't sleep through the night until over a year old!! But my second was at around 3 months. He would start waking up when he was teething but THANKFULLY that's almost over.
Have to tried white noise? Like a humidifier or a fan. I think they even sell white noise CD's. Once when my older boy (he's now 3) would just not go back to sleep when he was a baby in desperation I turned on the hair dryer and he was out in like a minute. They like that kind of noise for some reason.
Good luck and hang in there!!!!

~Roo'sMama~ replied: Andrew started sleeping 6 hours straight at night when he was less than a week old. Allie just recently started sleeping 5 hours straight and she's 2 and a half months old. She did sleep 7 hours last sunday night though.

ETA: I was also going to suggest that you give him a nap later in the afternoon ~ he might just be too over tired at night to go to sleep.

A&A'smommy replied: alyssa slept through the night when she was 5 days old until she hit a growth spurt and then it was off and on. She still sometimes she wakes up and crawls in the bed with us which of course I put her right back in her own bed

it will get better!!