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Eli just started sleeping through the night consistently... He turned 12 weeks on Sunday... before that though, he would sleep through the night every other day or so for about a week. His bedtime has always been around 7pm since week 8 (6pm now after daylight savings) We just noticed that his wake time would slowly go from 2am... to 3am... to 4 am... 5 am... finally to 5:30 - 6:30 nowadays.

Okay - so this is a stupid question I'm sure - but what do you mean when you say "sleep train"? I've heard this in a few different threads and not sure exactly what people are talking about!

I have so much to learn before our baby comes in a few weeks!!

My husband and I loosely followed the Ferber method, and we went months being defeated by our LO. We didn't set a consistent bedtime routine for him, and I think that is what hurt him the most. Now at 6.5 months we have our routine set, and the LO passes out without a peep with only one middle of the night feeding. Phew. I was also so certain that he needed to wake up 3-4 times in the middle of the night to eat.

I wish I had sleep trained consistently from the beginning. Better late than never.

@Lozza - My routine takes half an hour. It starts with a bath. Then we go to her room where she has water (was previously milk but she stopped wanting bedtime milk at 15 months), I read her some stories, and we have cuddle time. Once it hits bedtime (hers is 6:45 pm), I zip her up in a sleep sack, put her in the crib, and she is down for the count. We have been doing this same routine since she was about 2 weeks old I think.

@Lozza- Eli is 12 weeks right now, we started the routine when he was just 5 weeks old. The routine consists of a bath, bedtime bottle, swaddle, white noise, a song, and then we place him in his crib drowsy so he falls asleep on his own. He has been sleeping long stretches of time since 6 weeks old!

As of timing.. every baby/kid is different but we notice that he goes down easiest around 6pm (before daylight savings it was 7pm) and within an hour after he wakes up from his last nap... so timing is important. The whole routine takes about 30 minutes... 10 min bath, 15 - 20 min feeding and burping, then 5 min for swaddle and a song

@Lozza: Our routine is from 30-40 minutes. Bath at 6:30pm followed by nighttime diaper and lotion massage, nasal irrigation (poor baby has terrible environmental allergies), PJs and sleepsack, read 1-3 books depending on his mood, and nurse to drowsy. He is down between 7 and 7:10pm.

Our little one started sleeping through the night at 2 1/2 months. The minute we stopped swaddling her, she found her thumb, and that was it. 12 hour nights right away.

I have a feeling we're very lucky and spoiled, and we're in for a suprise when baby number 2 comes around

Even when we sleep-trained Claire at 4.5 months, she would still wake up 2-3x per night to eat (which we read is perfectly normal for that age). The only difference was that she would go right back to sleep after a feeding and a diaper change.

The very first time that she slept a full night was the day after she turned 6 months old. But that was a fluke, and she returned to waking up 1-2x a night.

She only began to regularly sleep 10-12 hours through the night without waking us (because most babies do not actually sleep the entire 10-12 hours straight, but will go back to sleep by themselves) was at about 9 months. But even so, she still wakes up once about 20% of the time.