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What do you consider STTN?

I consider Logan STTN, but that's really 7-9 hour stretch (which he started around 11 weeks). If you consider STTN to be actually sleeping the whole time from bedtime to morning wake-up, he isn't. He goes to bed around 7:30 p.m. and is up for the day around 7:00 a.m. and has two wake-ups in between to feed (9:00 p.m. and 5:30 a.m.).

Xander was the same. Started sleeping 7-8 hour stretches around 11 weeks. He didn't sleep from bedtime to morning wake-up without feeds until we weaned at 14.5 months.

My BF daughter started sleeping through 7-7 at 15 months...before that she would do 8 hour stretches (but like 7-3AM and then back to sleep)...

he started sleeping a nice 8 - 9 hours stretch at 8 weeks. We were putting him to bed close to 10pm then though so it worked great as he would sleep till 7am sometimes. It lasted a couple of months and then he would have 1-2 wakeups per night until just after a year (and then he finally started sleeping 10-12 hours at night). With a few odd weeks here and there when it was better or worse.

@Adira: man, I hope T gets on that schedule! I would SO be on board with feeding him at 9, going to bed, and waking up for the work day at 5 and feeding him again! That'd be STTN for me!

Also curious because with E, DH and I could trade nights and I'm not keen on long term sleep deprivation that is mom exclusive

I EPd, but my LO had exclusively bm until I stopped at 13 months....and she didn't STTN even once till she was 1, and it's happened only sporadically since. She's just not a great sleeper. She's been "night weaned" for a year at this point and it hasn't helped her sleep.

@winniebee: 17 months.

I think around 10 months or so. From 3 months on, he slept 9:00-8:00 with only one wake up, though.

Consistently? 13 months. We sleep trained a few times and would get to 7:30-5 & back down until 7ish, which was not 100% STTN but I counted it. But she would always regress to multiple wake-ups with illness or travel or if we looked at her funny. Around 13 months it felt like it was "her idea."

Edit to add: I supplemented so I don't know if we "count"? I would nurse and usually not bottle feed at night.

G did it first at 12 weeks!!!!
Maybe 7-8 Times since scattered
Her sleep has no patterns....lol

@blackbird: @winniebee: Okay, good! That's why I thought it was STTN, even though it's not the full 11-12 hours. He's sleeping the entire time that I'm sleeping, so it's perfect!

@blackbird: Not sure if this will work for you or not, but once Logan started doing those longer stretches, I tried to essentially "force" them to be when I wanted. If he doesn't wake by 9:00 p.m. to eat, I feed him anyway. Then I don't feed him in the middle of the night, even if he wakes (except when he goes through a growth spurt). He takes a pacifier well, so I've given him that in the middle of the night and that's helped him to stop waking up.

About two weeks before he turned one.

@winniebee: I believe 5 hour stretches is considered STTN.

By that standard, our 4 month old daughter has STTN 2 times.

I was a little nervous opening this thread, but it makes me feel much better!

About 5-6 weeks. Right now she regularly sleeps 9:30-5:30 at 3 months. She will sometimes go back down for 1-2 hours. Not sure if this "counts" since we have a wake up, but after 8 hours I usually can't go back to sleep. We give her a bottle of pumped milk right before bed. Crossing my fingers it continues.

Both of my kids did 12 hours around 6 months. We did have a bad month of major regression with LO2 that I think was teething related because he went right back to 12 hours when his first tooth came through at 8 months. Both my kids were amazing from early weeks though, 6 hours at 2 weeks for LO1 and LO2 gave us 8 hours regularly once I stopped waking him around 3 or 4 weeks. I honestly think EBF isn't the issue nor do I think I did something special to get long stretches, some kids just sleep better than others. I did not think I could hit the lottery twice and I did. maybe it is genetically linked?

For whatever reason we were really lucky and K slept from 7:30 to 6 the first time at 6 weeks. By 3 months she was doing it pretty regularly. We don't have a video monitor so I guess it's possible she wakes up at night and doesn't make noise, but most nights I don't hear a peep from her till after 5.

Bed time to wake up started happening consistently around 16 months (about a month after she weaned).

18 months is when she started sleeping from bedtime until wakeup time. Around 13 months she started sleeping all night with one wakeup at 5AM. That coincided with dropping down to 1 nap.

Never? He's 20 months, still nursing, still waking up nightly.

Never...