How/when did your child begin to sleep through the night?

My daughter first slept through the night the day she had her first injections at about 8 weeks old - having never gone more than 3 hours before. I laid her down at 11 pm, went to bed, slept like a log - and woke up to bright sunlight and silence at 8 am. I presumed she was dead. Nope, lying in the cot smiling at the ceiling.

She didn't always sleep through after that - but she either slept right through or woke up every 3 hours, nothing in between. Gradually the 'slept right through' got more frequent, that's all. She was also breastfed.

One thing I did find was that if she woke up and yelled, leaving her was a complete waste of time - she never went back to sleep on her own whereas if I went in, gave her the dummy back and tucked her in, she'd be fine. My son, on the other hand, frequently woke up, yelled twice, realised nobody was there and went right back to sleep. It's definitely worth figuring out which pattern your baby fits - no point leaping up and down to a child who has the odd yell in his sleep, but letting the other sort wind themself up means it takes much longer to settle them.

I have three sons the first and last were sleeping throught the night at like 2 months. The middle one took a little longer at Iabout four months. From what I hear I'm lucky, alot of kiddos don't sleep through the night on in to their first year or longer. We just have a schedule that was routine for us, everyday. My baby is 11 months and is in bed by 8:00 and sleeps a good 12 hrs. He takes 2 hr nap about 11:00AM. His brothers are 3 and 5 1/2 they both go to bed at the same time, only my 3 yr old still takes a nap as well, just not as long.

My oldest was about 2 months old when she started sleeping all night, we didnt do anything different except spend more time playing with her during the day, a warm bath and bottle at 8 bed at 9 then she slept till 5 or 5:30.

Our second was about 3 months old and the same thing and our son was 4 weeks old and slept through till 5am

My nephew on the other hand was almost a year old before he slept all night through and a friends daughter was about 6 months so it really just depends on the child and the routine. also I was never a mother that stuck to a schedule instead I fed them when they were hungry.

My daughter will be 3 months tomorrow..and she currently only wakes up 1 time during the night..and sometimes not at all. The absolute worst thing you can do is put cereal in a baby's bottle. Babies should not have cereal until at the earliest 4 months. Their little tummies can't digest it. I also have a projection machine that puts images on the ceiling above my daughters bed and it also plays different sounds..like the ocean..heartbeat..lullabys..i put that on as soon as I lay her down and she's usually asleep within 10 mins. Good luck!

Ours didn't sleep fully through the night until after they were over about 1 to 1 and 1/2. Our boy slept through earlier than our girl did. Our Granddaughter sleeps for about three hours and then has to get up and be handled, she then usually goes down for the rest of the night. She is 11 months old and is just beginning to walk also, even though she can crawl as fast as a black snake.

My daughter is 14 months old now. She slept 6 hours at a stretch around 9 weeks old, but didn't sleep 8 hours at a time until much later. I've read in several books by sleep experts that you can stop nighttime feedings at about 5-6 months old (and earlier if they do it on their own, of course). My daughter is very petite and the doctor was worried that she wasn't eating enough so we didn't stop night feedings until she was 8 months old. She's always been very healthy though, just small. I think we could have stopped around 6 months and she would have been fine. I believe strongly in the Ferber system and recommend it as a good resource about children's sleep, even if you don't follow the method. Good luck!

My baby slept through the night at about 4 months. 7-10 hours, i just kept the same bedtime routine from one week on, Bath eat cuddle bed. I would put her down drowsy and let her fall asleep on her own by 1 month. If she cried I would rub her back or belly to calm her, it that was not enough I would pick her up and start over with the cuddling. Now she goes right to sleep 95% of the time with no drama. I do this at naps too, put her down awake but sleepy. It seems to help them learn to go back to sleep on their own when they wake before they are ready . Good luck to you.

My son started to sleep through the night almost consistently at about 3 months. A week or so before that I had to stop myself from waking him up at night thinking that he was hungry. He would make a lot of noise in his sleep as he cycled into a lighter sleep. He would still be sleeping but make a few noises. I would always jump up and feed/change him since I thought that he was awake and needed tending to. In reality he was still asleep and I was waking him up. When he would make noise at night I would have to stop and see how long it had been since he last woke up, then I would give it a minute or so to see if he was still going to make noise or not. If he was asleep then he would stop. If he was awake and needed something, of course he would keep crying.

I would say with my 3 it was like a light switch when they started at about 3-4 months old. They were taking one middle of the night bottle then they just stopped without warning. The first time it scared the hell out of me cause I thought my baby was sick/dead when I woke up and saw he missed is middle of the night bottle but he was fine.

Don't hate me...but my son was sleeping in his own bed...ten hours at a time by 2-1/2 weeks old. He was strictly breastfed. I would give him a warm bath at 8 ish...Aveeno with lavender, then give him a rub-down with aveeno lavender lotion for babies. I would get him into his jammies, give him one last nurse at about 9 ish, and he was down for the night. He would wake up about 7 am...I'd change his bum...nurse him again, and he would go down for another couple of hours.