When do babies start sleeping all night?

Question

My son is 3mths old.

Answer 1

Most babies are developmentally ready to sleep through the night between 6 and 12 months old. Before that, you may be able to "train" them not to wake you, but they will probably continue the night waking--you just won't know it.

Answer 2

Every baby is different. My daughter starting sleeping through the night when she was 2 months old, but stopped taking afternoon naps that were longer then 20 minutes.

My good friends son is 15 months and he still wakes at 3 am for a bottle, but he sleeps a lot during the day.

Your baby is still young. Best thing to do is let him sleep when he needs to.

Try to start a "bedtime routine". That is what really worked with my daughter. Here's what I did:

- At about 8:00pm, I would give her a bath and put her in a sleeper (I only dressed her in sleepers at night, never during the day because they DO know the difference in what they're wearing). Bathing them in the evening relaxes them and dressing them in a sleeper makes them feel cozy.

- Once she was bathed and dressed, I would nurse her, or give her a bottle of warm formula. (I found formula worked best for her last feeding because the milk is a little thicker)

- As she was drinking, I would start to sing a lullaby to her. I have 3 lullabies that I sing to her ONLY when I want her to sleep. Throughout the rest of the day, I never sing those songs cause she has learned to associate them with sleeping.

- Then (after she burped) I would rock her, while still singing. This made her fall asleep.

It may take a few tries before your son learns the routine, but soon he will understand. For the first few nights he might wake up at his usual feeding time. I'm not sure if you use a pacifier, but if you do, try giving him the pacifer instead of a bottle. If not, then comfort him but try to stay away from feeding him.

You'll find that as they get older, they aren't really looking for food at night, they just want some comfort. Of course that being said, if he really is hungry, then by all means feed him.

Eliminate 1 nighttime feeding at a time...start with the 2-3 am feeding, then once he is used to that, cut out the 4-5 am feeding and so forth. It will take time, but the end result is that your son will become accustomed to not eating over-night.

Sorry this ended up being a really long answer but hopefully this will help. Good luck!

Answer 3

Well, it depends on what you mean by sleeping through the night. Babies need to eat every few hours during the day, what makes us think they all the sudden don't get hungry at night? My 4 month old nurses 3 or 4 times at night, that is totally normal. Neither of us really wake up for these feedings, since he sleeps right next to me I sense him get squirmy and roll over and feed him- its great! That said, I have also read that for a baby, sleeping 5 hours straigt is considered "through the night", sometimes they will have one long chunk of time that they sleep soundly, then wake every 2 hours after that. If you are right there to respond to their needs, they will cry less because you can catch things right away.

Answer 4

My son is nearly 3 and still doesn't sleep through the night. He wakes up 2-4 times a night.

Answer 5

My son started at 2-1/2 weeks...he's now 22 months and still sleeps through the night

Answer 6

It all depends on the baby. My four boys started sleeping through the night around 3 months. My girl is still up 2-3 times every night and she is almost 11 months.

Answer 7

depends on the baby.. a couple in my office has a 2 month old that sleeps through the night. my son who is now 11 months has just started sleeping through the night in the last couple of weeks.

Answer 8

Mine was 6 months old. At 6 months a baby no longer needs to be fed in the middle of this night, so I juts stopped feeding her and within 3 days she was sleeping through the night. She was upset I wouldn't feed her at first but I would just rock her and sing to her until she fell back to sleep. A couple times I gave her a bottle with a little water in it. Her tummy was retrained in just a few days. if you keep feeding the baby they will continue getting up.

Answer 9

All babies are different.............both of my children slept thur the night when they were babies (have a 3yr old & 4 month old) I now alot of mothers will disagree with me on this one but this is a trick that i learned wayyyyyy back when i was taking care of my niece and nephew (it was my grandmothers idea).


First if your baby is bottle fed this will help (i had to switch to both brerast and formula for this to work)

get some baby cereal and a container of baby food. but like a table spoon full of cereal in a bottle with about the same amount of food (carrots and sweet potatoes work fin for mine) fill the bottle with formula (5oz bottle) shake will then put the bottle in some hot water to about 10 min. when you are dont with that give your baby a nice warm bath lotion or oil him down very good making sure to masage his legs back and arms (babies need love too) then after you have dressed him (leave the water you can do all of that later) take the warm bottle and feed it to him (make sure the whole is big enough but not too big) when he finishes eating (about half of the bottle bc they really are not used to eating that kind of hearty meal) burp him and take him to his speeping spot lay him down and enjoy the rest of your night (only do this at night time because you dont want him to become over weight or anything like that).

Now if you are breast feeding him................that is whole different kinda story. I would still do the bath and massage but i would also allow him to nurse himslef to sleep.

When he wakes up in the middle of the night and you breast feed dont turn on the light feed and change him in the dark (hall light of something). That way he will know that it is night time.

Answer 10

Really depends on the baby. My oldest didn't sleep all night for the first 6 months. My youngest slept right through the night almost immediately.