Do ANY cosleeping babies sleep through the night? - Page 2

[akind1]

Due to painting our master bedroom, we tried out transitioning DS to his crib this weekend. Lo and behold, he STTN! and did again last night for the 4th night in a row.

Call me crazy, but I really miss having him in bed with me, but I do love the uninterrupted sleep!

[shotmama]

i remember reading a much older thread about this, and people responded by saying theirs started (cosleeping fams) around 22-25 months. can anyone with older children comment on this??

[Jerlin]

Wow! What are your secrets for STTN? When I say STTN, I mean go to bed and not wake up until the morning, no wake-ups for nursing, no wake-ups for pottying, no wake-ups whatsoever. Let an exhausted mama in on the secret.

[ramama]

I agree with PPs who said it depends on your standards. My girls learned pretty fast that mom sucks at nighttime parenting, and seriously learned not to poop their diaper at night by a couple months old LOL. Pee can wait. I guess when they were old enough to wiggle around enough to find my breast with very little assistance from me (ie, without really waking me up. They usually weren't totally awake either). That was good enough for me. Probably not STTN by most people's standards, but hey, I took what I could get I also didn't burp them at night. Like I said, I am a very lazy nighttime parent.

But really, I strongly prefer stirring a few times a night to nurse, never really waking up, to getting up and going to another room to feed, comfort, change diapers, etc even if it's only once. Even though there may be more "wakings" with bed-sharing, I don't think they're as disruptive to sleep as they would be if baby were in another room. In short, I don't think that STTN is the holy grail for mothers who bed-share, as it seems to be for families who don't bed-share.

[justKate]

Originally Posted by Lirazel

Just curious. I know mine won't for a long while, I'm sure, but I'm curious how common it is with any cosleeping babies. I know STTN shouldn't necessarily be expected of infants, but it seems even less likely when cosleeping.

Thoughts? Anyone have one who does?

DD did not sleep for more than 2-3 hours at a time until she was nightweaned. Once nightweaned, she would sleep 5-6 hours (technically STTN). When she was entirely weaned at 18 mos., she began sleeping from bedtime (btw. 7:30 and 9:00 p.m.) until she woke in the morning (btw. 6:00 and 8:00 a.m.). Always in our bed.

ETA: She's nearly 20 mos. and sleeps like a brick once she's finally asleep. She grumbles in her sleep if DH and I talk too loudly over her.

[wombato]

Dear God, there was hell to pay with mine until I figured out that I needed to burp him several times during the night in the first few months! I was RELIEVED when I realized that's what he was crying for!

[wombato]

Sometimes I think the nightweaning helped my son (16 mo) sleep longer. But like I said in an earlier post, I tried it at 12 months, and he was not having it.

I've figured out that he's waking up at 5 am seriously hungry. Once he even went to the kitchen doors and pointed. Some of the times, I took him to the kitchen, had a full snack, and got 3 more hours of sleep out of him. When I breastfeed, he wakes up every 1/2 hr or hour 2-3 times before he wakes up for good. I think the milk isn't holding him anymore. He's quite a chunk too, pushing 30 lbs. Maybe this is a growth spurt.

[wombato]

I wouldn't call you crazy. I still wake up at 2 or 3 am because I've been kicked. Or whacked in the face with the head. The very hard head. owwww!!!

[maptome]

I like this thread. It reaffirms to me that DD is not waking because I am cosleeping with her. She just wakes up because she is a baby. Also, gives me hope for the next one.

[2cutiekitties]

Originally Posted by babygirlsmama

This thread makes me wonder whether the "definition" of STTN includes babies who stay asleep all night, but nurse a couple times. When folks ask me whether my baby STTN, I usually answer, for my purposes, yes. We get into bed together around 9:30 or 10 pm and she sleeps straight through till about 8:30 am. Neither she nor I fully wake during the night, although she does nurse a couple times. Since my sleep doesn't get interrupted, I don't really care.

For me that is not STTN. It is exactly what you said, which is its own category, imo.

OP, mine started STTN at 3 mnths when I let him sleep on his tummy.

[limette]

I thought I posted on here already but I don't see it so....

Both my girls didn't sleep through the night (12 hours no waking) until around 20 months when they weaned. Up until that point they woke every two hours to nurse. From two on they were potty trained and would occasionally wake to pee once a night. Me, I've never slept through the night.

My son is only 6 weeks and he sleeps for about a 5 hour stretch and then wakes every 2 hours to nurse.

I've read several places that STTN is defined as a 5 hour stetch with no waking.

[OkiMom]

According to the Ped I talked to with DD1 STTN is considered sleeping at least 4 hours in a stretch. Given that definition both mine started sleeping four hours in a stretch at around 9-10ish months, they would go to bed around 7ish, wake at around 11ish to nurse, go back to sleep and sleep until around 3ish, then go back to sleep and wake for the day around 5-7am depending on the day.

If you mean sleeping 8-12 hours straight they didn't start doing that until around 1 1/2 when they night weaned. However, I don't necessarily sleep 8 hours straight, Im always getting up to get a drink, use the potty, adjust something thats not comfortable, etc so I dont' expect my babies to do it either.

[akind1]

Originally Posted by OkiMom

According to the Ped I talked to with DD1 STTN is considered sleeping at least 4 hours in a stretch. . . .
If you mean sleeping 8-12 hours straight they didn't start doing that until around 1 1/2 when they night weaned.

If it is only 4 hour stretches, DS did that nearly right away, and move to a 5-6 hour stretch by a couple months.

I don't know that I could handle a 12 hour stretch; DS has done some 10 hour stretches in the last week and I wake super engorged from those. but he started doing 10 hour stretches when I let him sleep in his crib through the night, and didn't bring him to bed with us.

[maba]

My 13 wo has been STTN for a month now. I would wake up engorged every morning and the forceful let-down made it uncomfortable to nurse for my LO. So now I dreameed him 2-3 times in the night. He usually sleeps 9-11 hours.

[BeanyMama]

Two out of three my mine did. All identically parented- just different fellows

[mamazee]

My second did right from the start, but my first didn't until she was 2 years old.

[justKate]

Originally Posted by shotmama 

i remember reading a much older thread about this, and people responded by saying theirs started (cosleeping fams) around 22-25 months. can anyone with older children comment on this??

We've always coslept. DD started STTN (by MDC standards!) around 15 months, when she nightweaned.  She's now 22 months and weaned, and sleeps from 8:30 p.m. to 6:30 a.m. without waking AT ALL about 60% of the time.  For us, it was all about nightweaning and time.

[sunnygir1]

Do any non-cosleeping babies sleep through the night?

My babes both spent their first year or more sleeping in our bed, a cosleeper, or a side-carred crib.  Both of them by 8 or 9 months (?) were being rocked/nursed/bounced to sleep and then put to bed alone in the crib a couple hours before my bedtime.  Dd was moved to her own room and night-weaned around 18 months.  Dd is almost 4 and rarely makes it a week without night-waking. 

Whether bed-sharing, co-sleeping, or in their own room, both of them almost never slept through the night as babies (up to the 15 months that ds is so far and dd until 2 for sure).