What age did your baby start sleeping through the night?

Question

1. what age
2. how many hours a night?
3. Where? ( bassinet, his own crib, with you, etc)
4. did you do anything to help it?

Thank you for answering,just wondering about other peoples experience with this!

Answer 1

8 mons
crib
warm bath lavender lotion, air wick air freshen in her wall opposite from crib, womb bear on, and a warm bottle of milk when she was done mylicon then i left her some water in a bottle to prevent tooth decay..
from 9pm to 6am usually woke up at 3am so
3 extra hours was worth it and i got much needed sleep:)

Answer 2

I guess I was very lucky. Mine were all sleeping from around 11:00 pm til 6:30- 7:00 am by the time they were a month or so old. One was sleeping through the night at 2 weeks.I just tried to keep them awake as much as i could in the late evening. Gave them a nice warm bath, made sure their belly was full and put them in their own bed in their own room. The bassinet would wake them up cause they would hit the sides. I put them in the crib.

Answer 3

She slept thru the night for the first time when she was about 6 weeks old. She doesnt sleep thru the night every night but does so very often. When she does sleep thru the night she sleeps about 9 hours, wakes up at 6 am for milk then goes back to sleep till her next feeding. She sleeps inside her crib in my room. I try to keep her up as much as I can thru the day and before her last feeding at night I'll give her a nice bath and a bottle and off to sleep she goes. That seems to help her alot.

Answer 4

1. I have been blessed with such a wonderful who sleeps all throughout the night and is awake during the day ever since he was born. maybe there was only this one week when he was still a month old when he'd sleep during the day and wakes up during night. but that was okay because i was still on my maternity leave then. but after that, he was back to his original routine until now that he is already 15 months old.

2. he usually sleeps from 9:00 at night and wakes up at 6:30 AM or 7:00.

3. he sleeps with me and my husband, in our room

4. just establish regular sleep-time routine for your baby. like if he sleeps at 9, he should already be pacified before that thru relaxing music, bedtime stories, etc.

Answer 5

All 3 of my kids started sleeping through the night @ 7 weeks of age. I was VERY lucky!! They slept a total of 8-9 hrs. a night. They slept in a bassinet next to my bed in the beginning. At 4 mths. they went to their nursery. I did the same thing every single night before bedtime. I would give them a bottle with a little bit of oatmeal cereal. I would wait about 30 minutes, give them a nice warm bath with camomile baby wash. I would put chamomile baby lotion all over them after their bath. I would put warm pj's on, lower the temp. on the ac, and turn on the CD player with lullabies very low. I put a night light on and that was it. EVERY NIGHT!! Routine...by the 2nd week of doing this they would yawn during their bath. They knew..I say figure out a plan and follow it consistantly. Good Luck..and congratulations..

Answer 6

I have 4 children and each one was unique when it came to sleeping through the night. Our oldest was never very good at sleeping through the night. Even as a toddler she was up once or twice in the night for a drink of milk or juice. As she got older, it was not uncommon for us to hear her moving around at night getting a drink of water and/or using the bathroom. She is now 28 with a newborn of her own, so she's still getting up in the night! My second child was a much better night sleeper. He was about 3 months old when he slept through the night for 5-6 hours pretty consistently. He was in a crib at that time. Nothing special that we did, he just liked to sleep. By the time he was 2 years old, he often would just lay down and go to sleep whenever he was tired and stay that way until morning. He is now 25 and still listens pretty good to his body and goes to bed when he is tired. Our 3rd child was a good night sleeper when she was about 6 weeks old and was still in a bassinet (actually in the hallway outside our room since we lived in a tiny house with tiny rooms). I nursed her until she self-weaned at 11 months. Even if she did wake in the night, a little nursing was all it took to send her back to lullaby land. When she was 12 months old, she began sleeping from 7 PM- 7 AM and did that for quite a long time. She rarely woke in the night and when she did, it was nearly always because she had an ear infection. She is now 22 and still gets ear infections. We also have a little surprise baby, who is now 9. She was the most amazing sleeper I have ever come across. She always slept through the night beginning from birth. She actually slept so much that she stopped gaining weight. She'd sleep up to 12 hours straight, wake up to nurse and go back to sleep for 12 more hours. At her 2 month check-up, her doctor suggested that during the day, I wake her (as best I could) to nurse every 2 hours, but let her sleep at night as long as she wanted. She loved to sleep and we used to measure her growth by ounces and 1/4 inches instead of pounds and inches. She slept in a bassinet in our room until she was about 5 months old. I think each baby has their own body clock and despite our best efforts to get them to sleep through the night, sometimes it just isn't going to work.

Answer 7

1. inconsistently, 3-4 mos.4-8 mos. seldom.consistently:8 mos.

2. 3-4 mos: 8-10 hours. 8 mos.+ :11-13 hrs.
3. crib
4. 3-4 mos:rocking,nursing,singing,for up to an hour.
at 7 months started gentle ferberizing

we didnt want to ferberize but she was waking up evry hour-hour and a half and crying for up to 2 hours. she was healthy,not teething,etc.she wanted to sleep with us and breastfeed all night. she wouldnt be hungry in the day and wouldnt nap either. i was exhausted! it took a month of sleep training until she started sleeping through every night. next baby, sleep training starts at 3 months. all the rocking this one got "spoiled" her maybe?the bedtime routine is key too.

Answer 8

My first son:
1- 6 months
2- 6-8hours
3- in his crib
4- no, he was pretty easy going

My second son:
1- 11 or 12 months
2- 9 hours
3- in his crib
4- I (or my husband) had to stay in his room with him until he drifted off to sleep.

My third son:
1- not yet :( he is 4 months old
2- he wakes up every 3 hours :(
3- mostly in my bed :(
4- apparently not enough!!

Answer 9

He's two and a half, still not sleeping through the night, commando style out of his crib into our bed in the middle of night, he's a mommas boy...

Answer 10

my son was 1 month old when he slept from about 9p.m. until about 6 a.m. in his crib. the closest i came to "helping" him was putting 1 ounce of rice cereal per ounce of formula in his last bottle of the day. i only did that because by the time he was a month old, he weighed almost 11 pounds!!! he was almost 9 1/2 lbs at birth!!!!