when did your babe 'sleep through?'

[mamatosaskia]

Hi,

Dd is 15 months old and co-sleeping with dh and me. She goes down around 8 and gets up around 7 am...but she wakes up crying to nurse (and now signing to nurse, I can see her precious little hands furiously making the nurse sign) at midnight and 3:30. I want to keep co-sleeping but want to know when (if at all) I can expect her to sleep in longer stretches. Dh is supportive, but growing impatient that the night wakings aren't getting any better. She has on occasion gone from 7:30 to 3:30 without a night waking, so we are hopeful.

When did your babe sleep through (I know there are various interpretations of this, but I mean a good solid 10 to 12 hours).

We are opposed to CIO but we are also tired! Give me some hope. Also, any suggestions would be great.

:heartbeat

jacqueline

[dukeswalker]

:LOL :LOL :LOL :LOL
I don't think you want my answers.....with ds (now 12yo )- it was only about 2 years ago, up until then it was a nightly ritual to get up, pee, drink water and then later in the night, take a nice sleep walking stroll around the house...

With 4yo dd - she still gets up atleast once a night to pee and crawl into our bed sometimes...

With 16 month dd - she goes down about 8pm, wakes up at 11:30 to nurse and then a few more times (I don't keep track anymore - I've turned the clocks away - which I HIGHLY suggest every co-sleeper do) until 7 am when we hop out of bed - ok...well maybe not "hop" :D

[ZanZansMommy]

Wish I could give you some hope that by doing x, y & z your babe would sleep thru the night. Sadly that's just not the case. My DD is 2 & co-sleeps & she doesn't sleep trhu the night. If it's not b/c she's too hot, it's b/c she needs a drink or wants to cuddle. Honestly, I firmly believe that kids sleep thru the night when *they are ready*--not necessarily when *we* are ready.

[manzanitamomma]

My older dd did not start sleeping through the night (10-12 hours, relatively uninterrupted) until after she self-weaned at 20 months.

[BamBam'sMom]

My son slept through the night he turned 2 months old, and every night after that for about a month before he decided it was just a phase. I thought I was pretty lucky. Back then he was in his own crib in my room. Now he sleeps with me and wakes up several times a night to nurse. He doesn't really nap either.

[plantmama]

I wish ds was only waking up as much as your dd. He's 20 months and has been waking up throughout the night for the past several weeks. He sleeps from 8 to 8 most nights but wakes up at least 4-5 times. I just nurse him back to sleep, but it still interupts my sleep and is getting really annoying.
He's gone though stages where it gets better then it always gets worse again.
I really feel like night weaning him in hopes that this would encourage him to sleep through the night or just wake up to cuddle.
It's definately a hard issue... hang in there.

[Neldavi]

Oh my, what I would give for your nighttime waking situation ... oh, that's probably not what you want to hear, huh ;) . Ds now wakes up AT LEAST every 2-3 hours .. sometimes to nurse, sometimes not. All babies are different. Personally, I'm hoping by about 2.5 he's sleeping "through the night", meaning 8 hours or so. Your dd is sleeping longer periods already so maybe she'll do it sooner .. but who knows :shrug. Sleep deprivation is no fun huh? :yawning:

[kennedy444]

My dd is only 10 mos old so I don't expect her to sleep through (even though "everyone" else does) but I do feel a bit like a human pacifier lately. I know it has to do with the teething but that doesn't make me any less tired in the AM when I have to get the older kids off to school. Oh well, enjoy it while it lasts. This too shall pass. :bouncy

[beth568]

Eek, I wish I had a good answer for you. My 10 month old slept some good 6-7 hour stretches when she was a couple of months old, and hasn't since then. She goes maybe 4-5 hours on a really good night these days.

My almost 4 year old was sleeping those big full nights (10-12 hours) within a few months after she weaned completely, when she was about 2 years 9 months old. But not before then - even after we night weaned, she'd still wake at least once. And, I'm sorry to say, she hasn't slept "through" the night more than 2 or 3 times since her baby sister was born last November. :(

I figure some day, a few years from now, I may get to spend an entire night in the same bed I went to sleep in, without getting up to tend to someone, somewhere in the house.

And this almost certainly isn't what you want to hear, but I did find that I slept better when I left DH to sleep on his own and slept in a different bed with DD. When she woke at night and it was just the two of us, it was much quieter and more still than it was with another adult in the bed. If DD woke up DH, he'd often snort and snuffle and turn in the bed, and that was much more disruptive to my sleep than having a little person snuggle up to me to nurse, KWIM?

[octobermom]

From birth :yikes: but it was because she had blood sugar issues sleeping a long time isn't always a good thing.. After that probably around 5 months slept from 8-12pm then I dream fed and she was ussually good till about 6am. We dropped the midnight feeding around 10 months and shes been sleeping 8-12 hours since plus a two/three hour nap. Shes 35 months sleeps from 7:30 to 8:00 amish.

Deanna

[canadiyank]

My dd1 was about 3.5 yrs...for 3 yrs. she woke once or twice a night...sometimes now we'll wake up and she's in bed with us, but she usually sleeps through. I thought it would never happen, LOL! Now with my 9 mos. old, oh man. :( She's waking every 45 mins. these days...I mean, nights. I dream about a 3 hr. stretch...