Post by statlerwaldorf on Dec 6, 2018 19:53:29 GMT -5
Yes but they are 9, 4 and 2 year old twins. One of the twins started sleeping through the night around her first birthday but the other was closer to 2. DD1 was 4 months and DS1 was 18 months.
DS was a unicorn who STTN at 2.5 months and onward (now 2.5). Unless he's sick, teething (has all 22 now) or more recently fears of darkness and transitions like visiting grandparents overnight. But yes, overall he STTN.
DD - finally STTN fully at 4.25 years. She was mostly STTN by age 3, but she would still get up and yell MOTN if she realized I had left her bed. She finally stoped that when DS came along. But the first 2 years were so hard. She was born a preemie so we had to feed her whenever she woke up. She couldn't drink more than 4 oz in one bottle until she was almost 3 years old. She would get up MOTN to eat and it wasn't until she fully dropped her bottle right before age 3 and subsequently started eating more solids that she started sleeping longer. And I tried starting around 20 months to get her to drop that bottle. But if I took it away, she just refused to drink any milk and she wasn't the best eater to begin with so we didn't push it too much until she did it on her own.
DS - 3.5 months. I swear I did nothing different with him. He started loading up on the night time bottles around 7 pm. He even inched his bedtime up to match DD's bedtime. Sweet baby. I hope this doesn't all go to crap. He's also a much better solids eater than she was and he's only 9 months old.
My friend's kid is 6 months younger than DD. I once told her when DD was 2 how tired I was and how lucky she was that her 18 month old napped her way through Europe. She told me someday my second one would be a good sleeper because of what I went through with the first. She was right.
4 (in November). Started STTN at 6 weeks and continued to do so until about 6 months, then we went through sleep hell for about a year. We sleep trained around 13 months, but she would wake up around 5am and be wide awake. I spent many nights rocking in the chair or laying on the floor next to the crib until it was a reasonable time to wake up. Eventually, she just stopped doing that. Now she sleeps from about 9pm-8am. She has a childproof knob cover on the inside of her door and can’t get out. She occasionally yells for us on the monitor and we go in and comfort her.
14 months. For the most part. Sometimes wakes to eat around 4am. He was the.worst. sleeper until we sleep trained at 7 months. We did full extinction because checks pissed him off.
Post by gretchenindisguise on Dec 6, 2018 23:47:12 GMT -5
My 4 year old started sleeping through the night the evening of his 4th birthday party. A week or so prior, I told him that it was the law he had to stay in his bed all night long once he turned 4 and a fairy would come in the middle of the night and he would just wake up being able to do it.
It fucking worked. I am still shocked. He was coming to our bed most nights prior to this. He won't even come out of his room in the morning, he calls for us. It's been over a month.
My 9 year old on the other hand was in our bed twice this week. So obviously doesn't work on everyone.
My 2.5 and 7.5 year old don’t sleep through the night consistently, but usually they only wake up one time early in the morning and go right back to sleep (often in our bed, unless I make them go back to theirs). They also sleep way less than average for kids their age and have always been that way. My strategy is to do whatever gets me the most sleep, even if it’s co-sleeping for a couple hours a night. My younger son slept ok for a newborn but his sleeping didn’t improve much so it was really terrible from age 1-2. I will happily wake up only 1x a night after that. My older son was even worse up until he dropped daycare naps at age 5.
We never had to sleep train our 10.5 month old DS, but we did have to night wean him. Once we did that he has STTN from 7:30-6. I'm sure we'll have a few rough nights here and there but I'm happy with having night weaned him. Granted, it's only been a week and a half lol but still glad we did it.
Yes- DS started at 12.5 months on his own, but we were co-sleeping. He moved into his own bed/room at 20 months no issue. DD started at 13.5 months when we moved her to her own room. Prior she was waking up between 5-6am which made it hard for me to get up and get ready. Now she sleeps until about 7:15-8am.
DD is 4 and recently has started coming into our bed 1-2x a week. Probably just because she knows she can and we don't stop her. She started sleeping through the night around 6 months, but was a pretty good sleeper before then, we did CIO around 5ish months (can't really remember when).
DS is 17 months and now sleeps through the night with a wake up maybe 3-4x a month (quick, go and rock and put back down). He was a HORRIBLE sleeper for the first 9 months, but since then has been a lot better.
Yes, and now at 9 and 5 I have to wake them up for school. It was a long road to get to this point. Dd1 didn’t sleep through the whole night for well over a year. I’m pretty sure she was still waking up for a 4am bottle at 16 months...Dd2 was a little better, but it took a long time. I just can’t remember how long now. Lol. Dd2 still frequently comes into our room in the middle of the night, climbs into our bed and immediately falls back asleep. I’m not sure she is fully awake when she does this, and I don’t even notice until my alarm goes off.
Post by hbomdiggity on Dec 7, 2018 10:05:16 GMT -5
DS is 3.5.
He didn’t sttn until at least 1yo. However in the past month or so he has started to wake up when he can’t fix his comforter 1-2x night. I’m hoping a bigger bed/bedding will help or else we are going to have to address it.
We hired a sleep trainer at 8 months and since then, S GENERALLY sleeps through the night. There are always occasional spouts (the last few weeks for example) when S is sick or something when he wakes up but generally sleeps 10-12 hours in a row.
Our 4.5 year old typically STTN. She’ll sometimes wake up MOTN and come into our bed though. 1.5 year old has never consistently STTN. She is getting better about it, but will wake up once a night for milk. CIO only works if she wakes up early in the night.
My daughter, 4, started sleeping through the night between 10-11 months. We had to do multiple rounds of CIO to get to that point though. Initially around 5 months to drop from hourly feedings to 2 feedings, again around 8 months to drop to one feeding, and then a few other times after either sicknesses or travel messed her up. I wasn't considering CIO at first, but as krystee mentioned I didn't feel safe to drive a car given how I exhausted I was around the 4 month mark. The day I fell asleep at a stoplight with my daughter in the car was the day we started sleep training. She had a pretty bad regression around 2.5, right before her little brother arrived but generally STTN now. It's not uncommon for her to wake a few times a month and call out to us. She usually just needs a hug, a drink, help in the bathroom but it's quick.
My son, 18 months, also started STTN around 10 months. There were similar circumstances to his sister. He was never as bad as DD was as a young infant, but I had less tolerance and patience for being sleep deprived with two kids to take care of. It took multiple rounds of sleep training for him as well to get to that point. He also wakes up here and there but there's almost always a reason...ie, wet, hungry, sick, teeth. He is impossible to get back to sleep if wakes up now though.
I would love to do an informal poll and see what the general consensus is since I am in a 3.5 year long sleep deprived hell. So:
-What is your child(ren) age(s) -Do they sleep through the night? If so how old were they when they regularly started?
Please also send spare sleep vibes my way
10, 5 and 3. The 5 year old just started recently and she doesn't always do so. She will get out and look for me. The 3 year old is no where near sleeping through the night. He gets up every single night! UGH. But in the land of the insane, when they go to my parents they sleep through the night for the entire month they are there.
Post by pinkdutchtulips on Dec 7, 2018 14:01:00 GMT -5
What is your child(ren) age(s) -Do they sleep through the night? If so how old were they when they regularly started?
** DD is 9yo She sleeps through the night by herself now but it wasn’t an easy road. She started sleeping through the night at 6-8 wks 😄 then turned into a CRAP sleeper from 18m to 2 years, then was fine until 4-5 years. Her dad tried to take her in the middle of the night when he was high. She had HORRIBLE sleep anxiety from 5-9y. It was only over this past summer that she has consistently slept in her own bed by herself.
Post by HoneySpider on Dec 7, 2018 16:03:27 GMT -5
Sorry kellsbelles I'm fortunate to have good sleepers (although maybe I wish DS2 wasn't as good of a sleeper because now I have to spend $$$ on a helmet)
DD is 15 mo. She was capable of STTN starting around 5 months, but it was very hit or miss for another 6 mo or so. Since around a year, she has good nights and bad nights but as long as she's healthy she is quiet all night probably 3/4 of the time. She tosses and turns like CRAZY, but if she's waking up, she is putting herself back to sleep rather than crying.
Ugh, I’m sorry. Ds1 didn’t sttn until about a year old and Ds2 started off great but then had a loooong regression basically the whole time he was 1yo. Now at 2.5 and 4.5 they reliably sttn for the most part.
They will get there! I always told myself it would click for them one day - they wouldn’t go to college still needing to be rocked and patted and all the other shenanigans it used to take. If nothing else, the mental picture of it made me laugh.
Also, my husband still doesn't sleep through the night most nights. I think he and the 9yo are genetically programmed the same.
Also this. I’m 36 and I STTN maybe once a week. I think DS just inherited my shitty sleep habits. I wish he had inherited DH’s because that man can sleep through the apocalypse. My sister’s kids also don’t sleep.