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1. He was 7.5 months, I'd guess around 22 lbs.


2. I consider sttn to be 10 hours or so - from baby's bedtime until a fairly reasonable morning hour.


3. We night weaned 2 weeks beforehand, but did no sleep training
 - one day he just slept til 4, then it gradually got later over the next few days.

4. n/a


5. So far at 10.5 months he has been very good. He's had 4 teeth since and none have caused wakings. When he gets really congested he may wake a little, but its very rare. I am crossing my fingers that regressions won't hit him too hard!


6. Yes, he'd been napping well since about 6 months on 2 scheduled naps per day - although our nap routine was very simple.


7. He slept in his cot.

Hope the answers are helpful!

1. 11 weeks (12.5 lbs)

2. I consider STTN 6-7 hours. Specifically if they stayed asleep between 12:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m. For us, this was him sleeping roughly 10:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m.

3. He mostly did it on his own, but with help. For example, if he woke up, I would offer him his pacifier first before offering to nurse him, and if he went back to sleep, that was that. Doing this led him to stop waking up.

4. N/A

5. For us, regressions, illness, and teething all affected sleep, but not nearly as much for us as for most babies. We were lucky.

6. We had a routine of EASY (eat, activity, sleep), but his naps were varied from 20 minutes to 2 hours and totally random.

7. He first started sleeping these longer stretches in a bassinet.

1. What age/weight was your LO when consistently STTN?
about 6 months old, not sure what she weighed. She was 8 lb 2 oz at birth, tho

2. How many hours do you consider STTN? 6? 12? I considered it a full night. 7-5 or so. She was doing 5-6 hour stretches within a month.

3. Did your LO naturally do this on his/her own or did it require some sort of intervention/training?
We had to sleep train

4. If it did require intervention, what did you do and at what age?
At 5 months, we did the Merlin in a crib nest. The first night, she STTN. Then she would STTN about 2x/week. Then she rolled in it after a few weeks and we moved to a sleep sack and did CIO. Took 20 min the first night. Took a full week to really "stick". She started to sleep on her side or belly, too.

5. What interrupted this the most? Regression? Illness? Teething? All of the above? For how long?
Honestly not much. Every now and then she'd have a bad night but it didn't last long. Just a couple days. Or a couple days a week. Even while sick, she usually STTN without our help. The 18 month regression was the worst and lasted 6 weeks. Then like that, it was over. And then we'll still have a random one-off bad night, like last night, where she was up at 11:45pm for a half hour, just crying and wouldn't calm down with us, no matter what.

6. When LO started STTN did you have a consistent nap routine?
Daycare was working to get her on a schedule but she was still between naps, between 4 and 3.

7. Where did your LO sleep when first STTN? Crib? Co-sleeping? Swing? Other?
Crib, in her Merlin.

1. What age/weight was your LO when consistently STTN?
Right at around a year old.

2. How many hours do you consider STTN? 6? 12?
I know some people consider it 6 but I'm sorry, 8-2 is not STTN. I didn't consider it STTN until she went down for the night then didn't wake up until it was time to get up for the day. For us, that was 12-12.5 hours (7-7/7:30).

3. Did your LO naturally do this on his/her own or did it require some sort of intervention/training?
No, we sleep-trained.

4. If it did require intervention, what did you do and at what age?
6 months, 9 months, then it finally stuck at a year. She was EBF so it took night-weaning for her to STTN.

5. What interrupted this the most? Regression? Illness? Teething? All of the above? For how long?
Illness & teething. At least a couple of weeks each time.

6. When LO started STTN did you have a consistent nap routine?
Yes. Our nap and bedtime routines are similar. White noise, sleep sack, sing/read book.

7. Where did your LO sleep when first STTN? Crib? Co-sleeping? Swing? Other?
Crib.

Charlie

1. What age/weight was your LO when consistently STTN?

Charlie - 4.5 months when we sleep trained. He was a big baby... over 16 pounds at the time I think.

Olive didn't sttn until 16 months when we sleep trained. We sleep trained at 13 months and she sttn, but was sick for months 14-15.

2. How many hours do you consider STTN? 6? 12?
At least 10.

5. What interrupted this the most? Regression? Illness? Teething? All of the above? For how long?

Charlie's sleep the first year was pretty much perfect. No regressions, teething didn't bother him, illness either.. travel did affect him and he had a pretty bad 15 month regression.

6. When LO started STTN did you have a consistent nap routine?

We nap trained charlie at the same time.
Nap trained Olive at 8 months.

7. Where did your LO sleep when first STTN? Crib? Co-sleeping? Swing? Other?

Crib.

1. What age/weight was your LO when consistently STTN? DD and DS at 8 weeks abt 10lbs
2. How many hours do you consider STTN? 6? 12? When I'm Sttn! So I considered it from 9-6ish
3. Did your LO naturally do this on his/her own or did it require some sort of intervention/training? Some training
4. If it did require intervention, what did you do and at what age? Moms on call since 2 weeks old. Which is mostly feeding every 3 hrs during the day and try to push feedings back at night until their gone
5. What interrupted this the most? Regression? Illness? Teething? All of the above? For how long? For DD illness but shes only woken up in the middle of the night a handful of times in 2 years. DS is just 3 months so we'll see!
6. When LO started STTN did you have a consistent nap routine? DD yes she slept for 2 hrs awake 1 hr repeat. DS no hes a catnapper
7. Where did your LO sleep when first STTN? Crib? Co-sleeping? Swing? Other? Crib for both

@lawbee11: how did you night wean? I want to do this because I think it's the only way my 9mo will sttn.

1. What age/weight was your LO when consistently STTN? 3 months, around 12 lbs I think?

2. How many hours do you consider STTN? 6? 12? For us STTN was about 8 hours in the beginning and is now closer to 12.

3. Did your LO naturally do this on his/her own or did it require some sort of intervention/training? Once the pedi gave us the go ahead to stop feeding her every 3 hours at night she slowly started sleeping longer. 4 hours, then 5, 6, etc.

4. If it did require intervention, what did you do and at what age? While she was sleeping more and more, she was still waking up for one feeding and then having a hard time going back down. I started doing a dreamfeed a little before she normally would awaken. This made all the difference. At that point she started sleeping 12 hours. We still do the dreamfeed and she sleeps about 8 or 9 hours from the dreamfeed to waking.

5. What interrupted this the most? Regression? Illness? Teething? All of the above? For how long? Travel was the biggest culprit! We had a few nights where she woke up around 3 or 4 am around 4 months, but she never really regressed.

6. When LO started STTN did you have a consistent nap schedule? Sort of. She was consistently napping twice a day, but it all depended on when she was actually tired, when she was waking in the morning, if we were out, etc.

7. Where did your LO sleep when first STTN? Crib? Co-sleeping? Swing? Other? She was napping in the swing during the day and sleeping in the PNP in our bedroom.

Other notes: I really don't think she started STTN until we pushed her bedtime up. Before then she was going down around 9 or 10. We started regulating her naps and putting her to bed around 7 and things started to get easier.

1. What age/weight was your LO when consistently STTN?
At 4 weeks she was sleeping 10pm-8am. At 4 months she was sleeping 7pm-7am. I hit the sleep jackpot and am so scared I'll pay for it with baby #2 lol

2. How many hours do you consider STTN? 6? 12? As long as I don't have to wake up myself before 6:30am, I consider it STTN.

3. Did your LO naturally do this on his/her own or did it require some sort of intervention/training?
She naturally did this, but I had to sleep train her at 6months to fall asleep on her own without the bottle

4. If it did require intervention, what did you do and at what age?
CIO with checks at 6 months

5. What interrupted this the most? Regression? Illness? Teething? All of the above? For how long?
She has STTN pretty consistently....there was a week long stretch around 7 months where she was up in the MOTN. She is still a terror in hotel rooms, waking up multiple times a night and not going back down. But generally we have been very lucky.

6. When LO started STTN did you have a consistent nap schedule?
Nope - she was so young when she started STTN our naps were all over the place

7. Where did your LO sleep when first STTN? Crib? Co-sleeping? Swing? Other?
She was in a bassinet in her own room.

1. What age/weight was your LO when consistently STTN?
10 months, I think around 18 or 19 pounds.

2. How many hours do you consider STTN? 6? 12?
I consider it 10-12 hours (me not having to attend to her before 6-ish in the morning)

3. Did your LO naturally do this on his/her own or did it require some sort of intervention/training?
On her own. However we sleep trained for falling asleep/staying asleep at 5 months.

4. If it did require intervention, what did you do and at what age?
Ferber method (extinction with checks) at 5 months. She was waking 8-10 times per night due to her 4 month regression and this helped her only wake when hungry (2-3 times per night at that age). We did not sleep train to remove her MOTN nursing sessions, she did that on her own gradually.

5. What interrupted this the most? Regression? Illness? Teething? All of the above? For how long?
She hasn't really had true regressions since 5 months, she wakes sometimes due to random things like teething, nightmares, or losing a paci, but not consistently.

6. When LO started STTN did you have a consistent nap schedule?
Somewhat at daycare but she has never been very consistent about naps.

7. Where did your LO sleep when first STTN? Crib? Co-sleeping? Swing? Other?
Crib.

I pumped until 13 months, so breast milk in a bottle. But even now that she eats a ton of food and drinks hemp milk, it makes no difference to her night sleep.

1. What age/weight was your LO when consistently STTN?

21-23 months, 11kg but LO did occasionally STTN prior to six months

2. How many hours do you consider STTN? 6? 12?

I count it as sleeping through if I don't get out of bed

3. Did your LO naturally do this on his/her own or did it require some sort of intervention/ training?

We tried to follow good sleep hygiene but sleep training wasn't a good fit for our family, LO has made a natural progression towards STTN

4. If it did require intervention, what did you do and at what age?

Our intervention was nursing and bedsharing from the first wakeup

5. What interrupted this the most? Regression? Illness? Teething? All of the above? For how long?

N/A, we waited it out which has been a reasonably stree-free process.

6. When LO started STTN did you have a consistent nap schedule?

We've always had a reasonably good napper who likes routine

7. Where did your LO sleep when first STTN? Crib? Co-sleeping? Swing? Other?

In her cot, in her room and now in her bed

FWIW my LO needed her night feeding till 18 or so months because she was dropping her day feeds but not taking in enough solids to replace the calories, once she started eating bigger meals she naturally started to sleep through, I also believe she was a baby that just needed to extra parenting and comfort at night.