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When I weaned my lo, she started STTN. She was 17 months old. We are the exception to the rule, though I'm sure!

My DS didn't sleep through the night ever before 16 months and only started doing it consistently around 22 months. It was awful!! I can't say that anything really helped except for time. People kept telling us that formula would keep his belly full longer so he'd sleep through the night but that never worked. Then they would tell us once he was eating solids he would sleep through the night but that didn't really make a difference either!!

I think around one year he was taking 2 or 3 naps? I don't remember. I think a very general schedule went something like this - he'd take a mid morning nap, an early afternoon nap and then would sometimes fall asleep on our way home around 3:30 and wake up around 4:30/5. Then he'd go down for the night around 7 or 7:30. He was drinking quite a bit of whole milk at that point and no longer nursing.

Unfortunately I think it's sometimes just out of your hands. These kids have their own agenda to drive us nuts through sleep deprivation!! I so feel for you though, I know how hard it is! Hang in there!

@bushelandapeck: Ah, that could be it! I agree, the overnight sleep is more valuable to me than the super long nap. You should try pushing her bedtime up by maybe 15 min increments for a few days. I hope that works for you!

@bushelandapeck: we had to night wean. She didn't STTN consistently until 18 months, but night weaning helped. My husband would go in. I think we started giving her skippy cup with water in it at that time too. It didn't impact day nursing, and I nursed her until she weaned herself at around 26 months.

My kids didn't STTN until they were about 13 months old. I think it helped that daycare dropped their naps to one nap at 12 months old. They definitely needed the sleep, but they were more tired. Also, weaning definitely helped to stop the night time wake-ups. They would just wake out of habit (they didn't actually need the milk).

DS didn't STTN till I weaned him from milk completely! When I nurse weaned him, he slept better, but when I took away the bottle that replaced my boob, he finally STTN!! It didn't last long though because he hit another growth spurt/milestone and we were up and at it again 2 months later. But those 2 months were glorious since he never STTN prior to 12 months!

I guess it depends on what you consider STTN? E didn't sleep a solid, not-waking at all 7ish-7ish stretch until he was 15 months old, after he dropped his last late-night nursing session. But the last few months or two he was just hanging on to that one session (it was around 4am).

My friend EBFed and she said her son never STTN until he was walking and weaned to cow's milk, although he got bottles of BM at daycare until her stash was out and I think she let him quickie nurse for bedtime. Before that he was up twice a night to nurse. Everything solidified into a rock solid schedule once he was on one nap. She thinks it was just an EBF thing because it metabolizes faster?

My son didn't STTN until 20 months !! I weaned at 12 months and that helped a lot. I also do not let him nap past 4pm but that's for early morning wake-ups, not MOTN. I did CIO many, many times and still nothing worked. He did not do it until he was ready. And I was so tired for so long. Commiseration, mama!

I was in the same position. I night weaned at 16 months, and it worked like magic. I think on the 2nd night of no night feedings, he slept through the night. And every night after. Up until then, he'd been up at least once - and often 2 or 3 times - in the night. I didn't want to night wean either, but now I wish I'd done it sooner, because life is SO much easier on a full night's sleep.

My big girl night weaned and started to STTN at around eighteen months and is still nursing at 3yo so it can be done! In our case it was about making sure A was getting enough calories during the day to ensure she didn't need a night feed (she was dropping daytime nursing sessions but not yet eating enough solids to make up the calories).

I didn't have to wean completely but I did have to night-wean for her to STTN. It was after 12 months for us as well.

@bushelandapeck: We started giving her WCM at 12 months and I would nurse in the morning and before bed. Shortly after we cut the MOTN nursing session and DH went in instead of me. She was pissed for a few nights but then stopped waking up finally! Good luck

I actively night weaned at 12.5 months with 3 nights of attended CIO. She STTN after that and we continued to BF until 18.5 months.

We never did any sleep training, and she kinda night weaned herself by 9 months. She is almost 11 months, we follow roughly the same schedule and her 2nd nap does go till 4-4:30 some days, but I find that it doesn't affect her night sleep. Her bed time is 7:30-8 and she will sleep till 6-6:30.

@bushelandapeck: I find that she def can go 4 hrs too, but she can also go 3-3.5! I know, there is no logic with these babies!