When did you notice?

[Jojo]

When did you notice LO sleeping through the night?

Did you have to change their bedtime to later in order for them to sleep until the sun came up?

Can you tell I'm desperate with all my sleep posts??

[Elaine]

Ben was 2 weeks old the first time he slept through the night. We spent the night at my mom's and he slept for 8 straight hours. I thought he was dead although a quick check proved he was fine. :p After that, at around 6 or 7 weeks old, he started sleeping for 6-8 hours at night and eventually moved on to 10-12 hours by a few months old (maybe 4 or 5 months? I can't remember exactly).

We didn't do anything special, he just started sleeping on his own. We're lucky and he's a sleeper. For example, he slept in until 9 am this morning, went down for a nap at 1 pm, fell asleep around 1:20 pm and is still sleeping. :eek:

[Jenni]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA - Jasia is not a good sleeper. We got used to getting up every single night. Even now ((insert big sigh)) when she has a couple of nights of full sleep we think it's a fluke.

-- In fact I was up for nearly two hours last night with her. This is also the same child who didn't really nap until 19 months. Good times.

Jorja was (and still is) and awesome sleeper. I attribute it to the fact I was working and we had a schedule to stick to rain or shine. She got up every morning at 6a - regardless. At six weeks she was pretty much a 9 to 6 sleeper.

Not sure if that was any help at all. Good luck.

[Ashley]

My kids were/are night and day. Tyler was my easy baby, no question. He went 4 hour stretches almost immediately, 6-8 hours at 6 weeks, and we were at 12 hours shortly after. Honestly, I just followed his lead. He would usually go 10-10. We tried 8, 9, etc, but that worked for him, he always slept the best. Even now, he's 3 1/2 and 9-9 at night, a 2-3 hour nap at 3, then down at 9.

And then there's Lily. Sigh. Lately she has been good at night, about 10-9. (not so much last night though). Not so much during the day. I have tried all kind of things, nothing seemms to be much help. My ped told some just need catnaps- gee thanks. If we're still at no naps in a couple of months I'll do cio if I have to- just not too long just yet.

Honestly, every kid is different and I think you just have to experiment. Heather had a great schedule system she recommended that looks like it could really work (just not so much here with 2 kids and having stuff to do with Tyler too). I think there's a thread about it, let me see if I can find it!!

Good luck!! :support:

[Heather]

Yes, I always preach about my schedule. :teeth: But seriously, it worked for me! I put him on one at 9 weeks old, and he immediately started napping and sleeping through the night. I also read "Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child". I highly recommend this book. One thing that the book says is that pushing the bedtime back is NOT going to help w/ them sleeping later. It says "Sleep begets sleep" and that in order to get them sleeping longer, you actually should put them to bed EARLIER. I know, sounds wrong but it works. Cohen's bedtime was never any later than 8:00pm, and now he goes to bed at night anytime b/c 6:30 and 7:00.

Good luck! I remember those days very well, and they suck donkey balls.

[Farah]

What Heather said. Charlie wasn't ever a great sleep-through-the-nighter, but he slept through the night for the first time at 7 or 8 months. I know, sucky. Now though, we say "Night Night" and/or he says it and we do our bedtime routine and no fighting.

At 10 weeks we did sleep training with Charlie and it did work for getting him to sleep in his own bed. When we were on a two nap schedule he slept great and slept always at 10 and at 3. We're finally getting him on a good one nap schedule and that's partly because he and I have done some negotiating :lol:

I remember those first few months. So hard, and not fun, but the fog will lift! :support:

[Cindy]

I'm still waiting... :lol:

Really Conner started doing better around 9 months when I let him CIO a little. He still has nights he cries for his paci because he is to lazy to find it himself. :rolleyes:

It helped with nights when we took away his late nap. No he doesn't go down for a nap past 3. But Matthew is still pretty young and will take naps. At his age Conner thought bedtime was when the sun was up so I am no help!

[Jojo]

Thanks so much! I am going to try that schedule and get that book.

Heather, you are right about the sleeping thing. If he is overtired good god you better run.

[AshleyMommyto2]

Eli started at 3 months. From the day we brought him home from the hospital we made 8:00pm bed time he got his bath, read to, and bottle. Then I would be him in his bed. He woke up every 3 hours! So when he got to 3months I started taking feeding away from him through the night... I know it sounds mean but when he would wake up I would just rock him back to sleep it would work up till the 5:00am feeeding now if he was really hungry and you could tell I would give him one. But eventually by the end of the month he got it.
Hang in there!

[Budette]

Talia took 8 months to sleep through the night.

Jackson got there around 6 weeks.

Tasha slept through the night at about 6 weeks as well.

All of mine went to bed at willy-nilly times up until that first month mark. Once that hit, I'd get them in bed at the same time every night. Having a regular schedule seems to help. I have noticed that moms who don't get the regular naptimes or a regular schedule in have a lower chance of having a kid sleep through the night. That goes with Heather's "Sleep begets Sleep" mantra, which sounds like a really smart one!

I'm a big fan of "Dream Feeds", as well, where you either bottle feed or nurse your kid about 2 hours into their night-sleep. That helped get Jackson through the night.

Good luck!