Sleeping Thru the Night - West Hills,CA

8 months for the first one. 10 months for baby number 2.
Breast fed baby number 1 until 10 months and baby number 2 until 7 months. So, giving formula and solids did not make a difference. They are ready to sleep through the night on their own time. I'm glad I didn't sleep train. I knew the waking would not last forever.

16 weeks, 3 days. It was so hard. I slept through the night at 6 weeks, so did my sister. My brother at 6-1/2 weeks. Both of my sister's daughters at 6 and 6-1/2 weeks. So 6 weeks came, and went. Seven weeks. Eight weeks. We decided we would be in sleep hell forever. And then one night, he just slept through. And that was pretty much it (unless he was sick).

I've talked to lots of young parents over the last 20 years or so. With or without 'sleep training,' they slept 6 or more hours anywhere between 4 months and 2.5 years.

My grandson was the 2.5 years kid, and his desperate parents tried every form of sleep training, including CIO at one point. Nothing took. I personally think sleep training is a myth, or a catchy phrase designed to sell baby books, because babies will sleep when they are able. My grandson has been a reliable sleeper for the past 3 years, though he pops awake at 6:30 every morning, even if he got a late bedtime the night before.

19 months. It seemed like forever at the time..oh how I would like to go back and have a few weeks at that age again or younger though. Time just goes so fast. You won't regret nurturing your lil one at bedtime.

From about, 2 years old.
Naturally my kids did this.

I always went by my kids' cues. For sleep and feedings.

I just also found, that 'expecting' them to sleep all night, was just sabotaging and induced frustration. Because, a baby just wakes and needs to feed. It just is.
So if you expect... a baby to sleep all night... it is really just frustrating.
Hence, people "sleep train" because of the waking.
But I just accepted the wakings and feedings on-demand to be just the norm for a baby. Because, that IS what a baby is and does.
And once they got older, they naturally sleep longer and now, all night.
It just is.

Sleep trained or not, does not make one baby better than the other.
Or dependent or independent.
I even co-slept.
My kids are super well adjusted and independent and individual.

I don't know how old your baby is.

What I did was sleep teaching and that is very, very valuable to you and your baby! Babies don't automatically know how to sleep. They have to be taught. I highly, highly recommend The Baby Sleep Book by Dr. Sears, The Baby Whisperer and The No-Cry Sleep Solution. They all have invaluable tips, tricks and information. The better and more you know and understand infant sleep you can come up with a great sleep plan/routine to help baby learn to sleep with minimal tears.

It's crucial that baby get enough rest and good rest. And you don't have to leave them to cry while you count the minutes on the other side of the door to accomplish that!

All that being said every baby is different. My oldest was able to sleep 10-13 hours a night after about 6-8 weeks of doing and saying the same things every nap and nighttime routine. He learned what to expect and what was expected. My second was never the sleeper her brother was. She still woke many nights to nurse until she was over a year old. And even after that she still woke at least a couple of nights a week. No biggie.

My son slept 6 hours a night for a long time from about 3 months on. I didn't get to 7 or 8 hours until he was about a year old.

my 2 1/2 year old started sleeping through the night at 7 months, my 8 month old twins started sleeping through the night at 3 months.

I think the whole "sleep training" stuff is just a sham to sell books and videos to desperate sleep deprived parents. And the whole BS about "babies/children dont know how to sleep" that is a load of malarchy!!! newborns dont sleep well because they are hungry, or startle themselves awake. as they get older and eat more they are able to sleep longer. too much of a routine makes it harder i think, or when parents stay in the room or have to sing or rock their child to sleep. it just makes them used to that and then they need that to sleep. i always just lay my babies down to sleep and they fall asleep anywhere between 5 minutes to 20 minutes later.

My son didn't sleep through the night consistently until 21 months. We would get a night here or there, but most nights he would wake up at least once and often twice a night. There were nights that I would hear him up and playing and then he could get himself back to sleep, but most nights he would cry. We thought he might be hungry and would give him milk. He ended up getting really constipated for several days, so our daycare took him off of milk. We decided to do the same thing at home. Even being as constipated as he was, he slept through the night! We finally realized that the milk didn't bother him during the day when he was playing, but upset his stomach at night. We switched to soy milk and he sleeps through the night every night now. Just something to think about.

Every child is different. My firstborn son had colic and a lot of health problems for the first 2 years of his life. Even so, from about 12 months he would sleep through the night (if he wasn't sick). My daughter slept with me for about 6 months (while I was breastfeeding) and then slept through the night (in her own cot and room) from when I started her on rice cereal at the 10pm feed! Best of luck and Sweet dreams! :)

6 weeks. We were not nursing.

She would sleep from 10:00 pm to 6:00 am

I gave her a nice warm bath in a darkened bathroom. Quiet talking.. Rub her really well, dry her with strong stokes, give her a bottle in the dark, burp her, change her still in the dark except for a night light.. no talking and lay her in her bassinet with her head up against the bumper in the corner.. she was out!

3 months. Absolutely no sleep training.

My twins were nine weeks old and my newborn baby just slept seven hours at two weeks of age (though not consistent yet - six hours is a given each night).

my oldest 3 yrs , she's my ADHD-C kiddo.
her little brother , right around a year.
didn't do anything different with either of them, kids sleep through the night when they will.

For my child without sleep problems.....maybe around 2 years old? I honestly can't remember.

My son is eight and I'm not sure he's sleeping through the night yet. He has various sleep problems. He puts himself back to bed now, though, so I'm getting plenty of sleep.

my son began to sleep through the night as soon as I stopped breastfeeding him ( 1 year old) my daughter is 22 months and still wakes up at night once.

For all 5 -- by 8 weeks. Just kept it "boring" at night. And I nursed 4 of the 5.

My daughter was 10 weeks and my son was 2 extremely long years!!!

Good luck!!

10 months... but it's always changing... they have phases where they wake up at night and then they start sleeping thru the night again... Of course I'm not counting the teething discomfort and when they are sick...
Good luck, N.

My son slept through the night a few times right after he turned 1, but it was a fluke. By the time he was 18 months, he was regularly sleeping around 10 hours a night, although he would get up around 6:30 every morning. Of course, now he sometimes wakes me up (he is almost 3 years old) for water or help with the bathroom in the middle of the night, but he goes right back to bed after whatever is done, and he often sleeps until 8 in the morning.

2 months, but we weren't nursing, which makes a difference. I do know though from the few people I know who were nursing that routines are essential and they got most of their babies to sleep through at 6 months. I liked The Baby Whisperer.

my daughter just started to consistently sleep all night this past week, she's almost 10.5 months old. My son slept all night around 13 months old. We didn't necessarily "sleep train" with anything formal--but when I knew they were just waking up out of habit, they cried it out.