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For me, I say my kid STTN when waking up is the exception, not the rule. In my experience, my kids wake at night if they are sick or if a nasty tooth is coming in. They might wake for a few nights but go back to STTN.

That said, when we potty trained our then 3yo, he went from STTN for years with just the odd waking, to waking almost every night to pee....for like 6 months. It was so annoying!

I think I am in denial I think DD STTN but we have weeks off and on.....lol @14 months

T regularly STTN 8-8 since 9 mo when we dropped to 1 nap. Right now we are in a 2+ week streak and we were out of town last weekend, score.

@winniebee: Yes, that's how I would say it. Waking is the exception not the rule. You don't go to bed each night wondering if LO will wake up. You assume they won't and are surprised if they do.

My son has very consistently sttn since 5-ish months. I'd say he maybe wakes after he goes down 1x a month because of something random (teething, illness, etc).
We hit 18 months today and he's woken the last 2 nights. Wondering if it's the 18mo regression? I would still say he sttn because I know it will end and we'll go back to normal.

@Cherrybee: I thought the definition was "most nights"
and not including when ill.

@BabyTsMom: yes he would! Quick pee and back to sleep. But his brother wS also waking to eat them and it often was at a different time...

I mean, my four year old still wakes some nights and needs a snuggle. And if she doesn't, she goes to bed to snuggle with us by four or five most days.

I wouldn't really call having wakings every couple days STTN. DS started sleeping all the way through at 8m. From then until maybe 20m he'd have a wake up once every 3-6 months. DS is now 28m and I can't remember the last time we had a wake up. It might've been several months ago when he had croup.

Lo1 started sleeping 7 pm - 7 am around 10 months. Until very recently, if she woke up during that time, I knew something was wrong (sick, teeth, etc....). She's 2.5 now and goes to bed around 8 but wakes up almost every night around 10:30 and just needs a quick hug and goes right back to sleep. I still consider that STTN because I haven't gone to bed yet.

Ever since potty training last year my daughter wakes up 1-2 nights a week consistently. Before that she was STTN every single night for over a year! It sucks now! It has nothing to do with pottying anymore, thats just when it started.

Both of my twins have gone from sleeping through with barely a peep to waking up multiple times in the night needing water, hug, etc, as well as waking up close to an hour earlier than they used to. No idea why but I'm SO over it!

I guess we are lucky because mine (2.5 years) doesn't ever wake at night unless she is sick or teething. She started STTN at 10 months and she did wake every so often back then but she's been rock solid for at least a year, I think.

LO is 2.5 and I don't remember the last time she woke up in the middle of the night. It's usually only if she's sick.

ETA: I wouldn't really consider it STTN if she was still waking multiple times a week.

My 2.5 year old only sttn a few times a week. And she wakes early. And sadly, this is the best her sleep has ever been.

DD is 23 months tomorrow, and she started STTN when we weaned at 14 months, then stopped at 18 months. We sleep trained at 19ish months, and things were great for a while. Then winter hit, and sickness and things have screwed with us for at least a month. We are going on week 3 of crap sleep from sickness, teeth, and now who the hell knows what. She's currently screaming in her bed TWO HOURS after we started bedtime, and she's been in with us every night for what feels like forever. I'm over it, but it doesn't seem like it's going away any time soon, unfortunately. Our problem now is that co-sleeping used to solve our problems, but now it doesn't.

All that to say, I don't know the answer to your question, but I feel you!! I think some kids just don't have super predictable sleep, unfortunately.

DD started STTN most nights when we night weaned around 15 months. Then when we completely weaned at 18 months she started STTN solidly. Now at 23 mos she is still STTN, but does have a night every few weeks where she'll wake up once and we need to go in and hold her for a few mins, but those are pretty rare.

I wouldn't consider it consistently sttn if little things are waking them up every couple days.

My 3yo has only waken up about maybe 10 times since 8weeks old. She sleeps through colds/teething/coughs/fevers/minor illnesses (even vomit ). She's woken up bc of diarrhea and once in awhile if she loses her lovey, which is pretty rare.

My 1.5yo has woken up more but probably about 10 times since 8 weeks. He woke up a lot due to his first set of molars and his bad coughs. But he sleeps through colds/most teething/fevers.

My 17 month old has been STTN consistently since he was 8ish months and he wakes up at night usually only about once a month for a nigh or two, usually when he is sick or teething.

@Cherrybee: thats rough Could you try a reward chart with her? She gets a sticker for every time she "sleeps through"/if she wakes up, doesn't get you up? And maybe if she has milk before bed, try and reinforce as much as possible for her that big girls have their milk before bed, not in the nighttime...my sister went through a very similar thing with my niece and she left a bottle of water with her in bed that she could drink through the night, and the reward chart was tacked up opposite her bed with glow in the dark stickers, as a reminder. It didn't work all the time but she went from waking up every night to only 1 night-ish a week.
Good luck - I hope tonight is better x