As in, no night wakings? I sure did! My LO is 7.5 moths an has gone through periods of sleeping through but always reverts back when sick etc. I thought that he would be STTN by no later than 6 months!
Did you think your baby would be STTN by now?
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I thought for sure she would be sleeping through the night, I'm kind of bummed she isn't.
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@Bao: how old is your LO? Bummed isn't the right word. Exhausted.
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@winniebee: Well she's only 4 months old, but when I have friends/families kids who are her age or younger who sleep through the night, it makes me feel like I'm not doing something right. Exhausting.
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I don't know, my LO was a preemie, so I knew it was going to be awhile before he STTN. He is actually pretty good at STTN eventhough we are going through a rough patch now.
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Yes! DD is 6 months, we had 2 nights of sleep training last week = fail! She cried for 2 hrs on and off until DH couldn't take it anymore, best part is when he picked her up she laughed!
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I always thought babies woke up in the middle of the night before having her. I don't think I ever thought she would STTN by now.
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@Bao: my mother claims me an my siblings slept through after 3 months and always says how he "should" be sleepover through. I have done everything but CIO to et him to be a good sleeper. I'm now convinced it is just luck of the draw.
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@leelee: so naughty!
@mediagirl: Really? My sisters kids slept through by 6 months so I always used that as a benchmark.
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Yep 14 months and still wakes up.
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No, but one can dream!
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She actually started STTN before I expected. She started right around 6 months and I figured we'd be closer to 9-10 months before hitting that benchmark.
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My mom always said that my sister and I fully slept through the night by 3 months, so I thought DD would be the same. She is quite a good nighttime sleeper at 9 months, but she still wakes up when she's sick, uncomfortable, cold... or if she knocks her pacifiers out of her crib. It's tough.
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No. DH, SIL, and SIL's kids weren't good sleepers at all, and I just assumed LO would be the same... even though I've always been an excellent sleeper. From months 2-4 she slept a consistent 10-12 hours every night. Now she sleeps 11-12 hours without waking most nights, but we do get the occasional wake-up. Traveling and sickness throw her off really easily.
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I fear this will happen with my next. Lo sttn 12 hours straight since 2 1/2 months with only the occasional wake up due to a poo or something, but she'd always go right back to sleep. We are SPOILED! I have a bad feeling our next kid wont be so nice.
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@artbee: omg. no fair.
I for sure did! He is 10 months... I thought it would happen by 9 months, and for sure by 12 months. Who knows - it still could - but I highly doubt it
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I definitely did. DD is almost a year and still wakes. Mist of it is because she us always sick from daycare. I'm so exhausted because I have such a hard time going back to sleep after I get up with her.
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@BabyBoecksMom: There's hope... my LO started STTN just after a year. And in the sixth months since then, I've been in his room in the middle of the night ONCE. He made me wait for it, but he's a champ now.
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Yes! 13 months old and still up once to eat most nights. Some nights are better than others and no consistency....we chose not to sleep train but I am thinking about some no-cry-sleep stuff eventually.
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she only started sleeping through at almost 14 months when i sleep trained! charlie slept through the night at 4 1/2 months when we sleep trained.
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I don't think I had any idea when she would STTN. She's 6.5 months and sleeps 12 hours with 2-3 feedings, which she doesn't really wake up for but grunts/moans until she gets a bottle.
We are starting to concentrate on trying to get her to eat more during the day as I think she has really needing the night sessions (she has been taking as much as 4-6 ounces in a night feeding, which makes me think she wasn't getting enough during the day).
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Nope. LO's almost 5 months, was born on the small size. She's always been iffy on the bottle and now that she's starting daycare, I think she'll be up a couple of times at least tonight! Hopefully once she gets used to daycare she'll drink more from the bottle...or if not, maybe it's time to see if she'll drink from a straw or sippy cup.
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Yes I did, and no she's not. Almost 15 months and I am absolutely exhausted. Investing in a sleep training book for this next one, Mommy needs some sleep.
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I knew at four months we would not be STTN but I never dreamed I would be up every hour and this exhausted at this point
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Yes but I thought that because she used to sleep seven to eight hours straight before waking up to eat. Now she's waking up like six to seven times a night and I don't know why. When her cold passes, we're sleep training.
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I am sort of relieved to see I'm not the only mom with a baby who's a year old and is still not sttn. I thought she would be by a year, but so far she's still up twice a night most nights. Ugh.
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Hells yes. The long sleep stretches at 2 and 3 months old made me think we were definitely close to zero night wakings soon. At 8 months old there seems to be no end in sight to the (usually about 3 or 4) nightwakinngs, although he did have one night with none, just to tease me. It seems nightwakings are actually more common than I think most people let on.
But I also didn't realize how my own body would adjust to nightwakings, so they aren't as big of a deal as I thought they would be.
Having said that, when he does finally STTN I will be so happy.
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@StbHisMrs: I missed that you are pregnant again...congrats!
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@cvbee: I was more ok with the night wakings when I didn't have to get up at 5:30 for work and work all day in an office. Now....no bueno.
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@Bao: My LO is also 4 months (16 weeks this week), and the longest she has slept so far is 4.5 hours, and that happened once, in the middle of the day. ((Hugs)), doll.
@WinnieBee: I also totally think it is luck of the draw. There are other factors, too, (like birth weight, etc.), but I really just think it mostly comes down to luck.
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@winniebee: yes, I am hoping the magic STTN happens when I got back to work.....a normal day of work usually makes me super tired, so I will need my sleep then for sure
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@Matador: I thought life was great on the nights when there was just one post-midnight wakeup . . . and now we are back to 4-6 wakes per night (including pre- and post-midnight wakeups). I think we are currently experiencing the 4 month sleep regression though.
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@winniebee: really. I had no experience with kids before our own. Now that she's here, though, it seems like everyone's kid except ours (that we know IRL) sleeps through the night. And they all look at me like I am doing something wrong b/c she's not.
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@MediaGirl: Phooey on that! I have a hard time with judgmental parents . . . they of all people should understand that sometimes you are just at the mercy of the current with your LO.
Oh, and I *totally* think that most parents (in other settings) at least slightly exaggerate the amount of time their LO(s) sleep/slept through the night.
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@mediagirl: @MsLipGloss: I agree. My mom says I slept through at 11 weeks. But, turns out she put me down at 10 and I would sleep until 5. My son did 7 hour stretches starting around 4 months, so it's not that far off. But NO night wakings? Not so much.
My IRL friends all had to sleep train or had night wakings until 9 or so months (some, even with sleep training).
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@MsLipGloss: ha I am convinced most people are telling lies about STTN. Or they only mention the STTN victories and make you think that is what they get all the time, when in reality it is not most of the time.
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Yes! DS is 6 months this week and wakes up every three hours at night. He's never STTN.
A lady I bumped in to told me her oldest was 2.5 years when he first slept through, and that happened the very night she went into labour with her second baby!
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Yes she is 8 months and still wakes up usually twice! It really drives me nuts, especially because she STTN for a month when she was 2 months to 3 months old
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Yep, he' still waking up 1-2 times a night.
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@Mrs. Yoyo: Thank you for telling me that! I'll cling to that, hoping that she will eventually STTN. We actually made her CIO last night. It only lasted for 10 min and she passed out for the rest of the night. I, however, didn't get back to sleep for another 2 hours. Oh, today is going to be painful
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