[casper2425]

DD has finally started STTN (from 1030pm to 7 or 8am.. yey!), but only 5 times in the last 3 weeks. I'm optimistic this will increase as time goes on...
I know all babies are different but it got me thinking... the lucky ones who's babies are STTN.. how often do you get up to them? Once they started, was it consistent for you or are you up once a fortnight, once a month, only when they're ill? Just curious ...

[lozoodle]

Mine both started at about 4 months (about 7pm-6am). There are phases where i'd get up one or two times a night to put the dummy back, but never up for long. Neither of them fed overnight since 3 months of age (they were formula fed, not sure if that makes a difference). But there sometimes unsettled periods where they'd wake a bit, but always go back to sleep easy enough. I just made sure I was 100% consistent.

[lsolaBella]

Like PP mine were all STTN from 6-12wks of age. Once that happened I never gave a feed during the night again.

DS1 was consistant 10pm-8am boy from 6-7wks of age. Only time I had to get up during the night to him was if a tooth was coming through or ill.

DS2 was 12wks 9pm -8am Between 7-11m though he went through periods of waking hourly midnight to 5am.

DD was 8wks 9pm -8am. Between 8-11m also did phases of hourly midnight -5am.

The midnight -5am I would put a dummy in or pat/shhhh them back to sleep.

[Balto1]

DS started STTN at 4.5 months so over a month now. Generally 7.30 pm to 6.30-7.15am. I have only had to feed him at night once since then when I knew he had only drunk a small amount at bedtime that particular evening.

Maybe every third night he will half wake at 3.00am or so. He will either self-settle or I will get up, pop his dummy in and turn it into a loo stop for me.

He has not started teething or been sick yet so I will wait to see how these things will interupt his sleep.

[Tesseract]

My (breastfed) DD started sleeping 10 hours straight over night at about 3 months. Then at 7 months she started waking heaps, and now at 12 months she is still waking between 2-6 times a night. We've started co-sleeping as its the only way I can function.

Sorry this may not be what you want to hear! My point is, enjoy it while you can! Hope it lasts for you.

[Bluenomi]

My (breastfed) DD started sleeping 10 hours straight over night at about 3 months. Then at 7 months she started waking heaps, and now at 12 months she is still waking between 2-6 times a night. We've started co-sleeping as its the only way I can function.

Sorry this may not be what you want to hear! My point is, enjoy it while you can! Hope it lasts for you.

That sounds familiar. DD started sleeping 11-13 hours a night at 6 weeks, did it pretty much every night until about 4 months when she started awaking again. By 9 months she was waking twice a night, back to once a night around 12 months and finally at 18 months started sleeping all night again.

[niggles]

My DD started sleeping 12 hours at 12 weeks. She started waking again at 4.5 months, first once then twice then up to 5 times. This eased off once we started her on solids and dropped back to twice once she was 8 months. At this point she would resettle without a feed. She started sleeping through again at about 14 months but would still wake from time to time and still does at nearly 4.

My DS is too early to tell. Like her, he was born a happy self settler (3 months, she stopped doing it when she started waking again but he's still happy to). But he still wakes once or twice a night for a feed. And he's ravenous. He slept through one random night a few weeks ago. I hardly knew myself in the morning. Bliss. Despite his waking (which is very reasonable anyway) I find him much easier to care for. He's just so consistent and clear about what he wants.

[Xiola]

My DD started sleeping through 6p-6a at 10 weeks. She did it every single night without fail until she was 4.5 months old and has consistently woken at least once a night since then. I don't see her doing it again anytime soon.

[MakeLoveNotBacon]

Where do you find these babies that sleep 12 hours a night? I want one!

[lsolaBella]

Where do you find these babies that sleep 12 hours a night? I want one!

Pure luck. I will NOT say it is any form of superior parenting.