Poll about STTN - no judgment

[satama]

I think 6+ hours can be called sleeping through the night. But 8-9 hours is much better, and we strive for 10-12.

DS1 was sleeping through (until 5am) at 12 weeks. I think his bedtime was 8 or so. DS2 has been sleeping from 7:30 or 8 until 5 or 6 am since about 4 monthsw unless you count random wakeups for his paci to be put back in for him.

[jr009j]

From 8 weeks to 5.5 months, DD fairly consistently slept from 7pm-6am. Her naps were much more inconsistent though. Then it all went to hell as she's been sick and had growth spurts and learned that daddy will read to her in the middle of the night. Recently she's back to sleeping longer, generally 6:30-5 and then at 5 we bring her into bed with us and she'll sleep until 9 if we let her.

[bunch]

Dd sttn (8p to 7am) from 4m to 6 mo. And then not again until I weaned at a year.

[ilikedonuts]

DD slept from 10pm (she had a late bedtime for a while) to 7 or 8am starting at 6 weeks. I consider that STTN.

[Deleted]

For me, it literally means sleeping *through* the night. Through being the operative word. So at least ten hours but more like 11-12 for a baby: 6 or 6:30 pm to 6:30 am.

We've been lucky with DD so far. She started doing a 10 hour stretch around 8 weeks or so. With the boys, it was more like 5 months when they started consistently doing it.

[Deleted]

I consider it 8 to 10 hours at a stretch, but I know some people consider it 6 hours, which he was doing by a month or so (he'd go down at 10, wake up at 4, eat, go back down for two or three hours.) He always slept at least 4 or 5 at a clip though from the time we brought him home from the hospital.

Around 8 weeks or so he started sleeping from about 9 to 5, which I considered STTN (then he'd wake up for an hour, and go back to sleep for 3 hours).

Around 10 weeks he started doing a wonderful stretch from about 8 or so until 6 or 7 in the morning, a nice solid 10 hour stretch. It was heavenly.

then he hit 4 months and bam! no more STTN. LOL. We get some random nights here and there (last night he slept from 945 until I woke him at 645 so he could get ready for daycare) but there's definitely been a sleep regression. We're working on it. LOL.

[w2w]

I consider it sleeping through the night when I got to sleep until the morning without having to get up. That started around 9 months and was consistent by 10.5 months (I think).

[mishap]

I define STTN pretty much like you -- 9 or 10 to at least 5 a.m.

DS1 was about 3.5 to 4 months. I don't really remember exactly.

DS2 was 6 weeks. (ducks) Yes, we actually landed one of those magical "good sleeper" babies. I am thankful that he was my second because I know it really is all about luck.

[birdmom]

I'd say between 9 pm and 6 am. DS is 20 months. I can count on one hand (maybe two) the number of times he's slept through the night. He's a crappy sleeper.

[lishie]

Neither of my kids STTN until at least 6 months of age.

I couldn't get #2 to sleep in his crib until at least 9 months, the only way I got any sleep or even the appearance of STTN was by having him lay right next to me.

[everam01]

I consider STTN from our bedtime (10-11) through when I usually get up (5:30). This did not happen consistently with both kids until 10+ months. Until then, at least one would have a 2-3am wake-up.

Now they're back to a 2am wake up. Sigh.

[eddy]

I count it when they sleep through my night.

Jack was legit sleeping through my night at 8 weeks. That kid is a freak of nature when it comes to sleep.

Leo just started sleeping through my night at and he is just shy of 5 months. He has been regularly sleeping 8-10 hours but I still had to wake in the night with him. It is LUXURY to sleep a full night.

[hannamaren]

She slept 6-7 hour stretches from 2 weeks old. But before you get jealous, she cried from 6pm - 1am every night and then slept until 8/9am. And napping? 30-45 minutes tops.
Then at 5mths, she started sleeping 7-4am.

It is such a short period of your whole life. You move on.

[ijack]

Emma was 8 months old before she STTN (but that's when she hit 12 lbs), Q was 8 week old and only like 9-10lbs (like 8 hrs a night). Then she had a bad stretch around 4 months, but we got back on track.

[pugz]

Squirms was a total tease last night. Slept from 9-4, then back down and woke at 6....but she wasn't actually hungry. Came downstairs and got the bottle ready and I could not get her to rouse enough to eat. So we napped on the couch til 8

[justjen]

I would define it as any 7-hour stretch that lasts from before midnight until at least 5am.

She's done that twice in her 10 weeks.

[sunshineluv]

Ugh, I used to could brag about my boy STTN at 3 weeks. And he did! But then he regressed, and regressed some more.

He doesn't eat in the middle of the night, just wants his paci like 8 or 10 times. Ferber starts monday. .

[electricmayhem]

STTN, for me, was when DS would no longer wake up to eat. He didn't do that until he was about 8 months old.

He's 15 months now, and we had a few months over the summer when he was sleeping from 7-5:30 pretty consistently and I wouldn't hear him at all, but lately, he's been waking up crying anywhere from 1-3x per night. Luckily, it's usually between 7-11 though. He's still a really early riser too, usually up before 5:30.

[ohgillian]

My personal definition was when I wasn't being woken up before 5 or 6 AM by a crying child.

DS dropped his last middle-of-the-night feed (which was almost clockwork @ 3:30 AM) at 8 months. It changed my world.

[kittycatlove]

I think we got 5-6 hour stretches at about 2 months. I went back to work after 12 weeks and I want to say maybe a month later DS was sleeping from 7pm till 6 am. He's always been a pretty good sleeper.

Even now at 18 months he's down by 8 and up at 6:30.

[lindyanne]

DS was six weeks but he was 8lb10oz at birth and totally ff at that point

[BAMFMrsB]

BabyBAMF has just started to "STTN". He still goes down between 12AM-1AM, but then he'll sleep until 7AM or 8AM. To the point where we get him up. I know, I know. We're crazy. I think its because he's finally eating 4oz now and is full enough.

I think he's only gone down a few times before 12AM. He looooooooves to party at night.

Lately he's been waking up overnight and just chillin in his crib. No crying or talking (we have a def talker) but he'll just move around a lot and then fall back asleep. We put him down facing N-S, and when we go in to pick him up in the A.M. he's facing E-W We are buying mesh bumpers, stat.

[Deleted]

I define it as 6 hours of sleep. DS started this at 6 weeks, & then 12 hours at 7-9 weeks. He had a small sleep regression ( up once a night at 4.5 months. He has since sttn.

[hocus]

With LO 1 -- 11 months. We did sleep training and had to redo it around 18 months. Everyone once in a great while she'll either call for me OR wake up very very early like 5 AM and need a morning nap but it is rare. I know she wakes up over the course of the night but as long as she doesn't call for me I still call it STTN.

With LO 2 -- 9 months but there are more relapses. We didn't sleep train.

My first kid was all business at her nighttime wakes up by 12 weeks. So it was feed and pass out. (We don't change overnight diapers unless there is a poop). My son had a harder time, but it was still not so long.

[karinothing]

DS slept through the night once 7-5am. It was glorious. It has never been repeated. He has been up a billion times lately. Found out today he has a double ear infection. Hopefully we get back to normal (one time) soon.

[anna7602]

Oct 25, 2012 10:06:51 GMT -5 lindyanne said:

DS was six weeks but he was 8lb10oz at birth and totally ff at that point

Are you implying that formula feeding=magic STTN remedy? I don't buy into that. I know plenty of formula-fed babies who didn't STTN early on.

[8675309]

My DD STTN by 8 weeks. It started out 9-10 hours/night and by 12 weeks she was sleeping 12hrs.

My DS STTN by 9 weeks. By 12 weeks he was also sleeping 12 hours.

I think its a combo of having great luck with both babies but I also read a book called 12hrs in 12wks. It was a sleep training book that worked really well. And no, my babies didnt suffer as many judgy moms have said to me.

[atouchofklasse]

12 hour nights starting at 3.5M. Only have gotten up with him maybe 4 nights in the year since.

[drloretta]

STTN for me was probably 9pm to 6am, or thereabouts.

DD was STTN at 7 weeks. Her night-time awakenings got later and later. One night she went down in the evening, and then I woke up and it was morning

Yes, we were very lucky.

[hannamaren]

Oct 25, 2012 11:59:17 GMT -5 anna7602 said:

Oct 25, 2012 10:06:51 GMT -5 lindyanne said:

DS was six weeks but he was 8lb10oz at birth and totally ff at that point

Are you implying that formula feeding=magic STTN remedy? I don't buy into that. I know plenty of formula-fed babies who didn't STTN early on.

I think bigger babies that are formula fed do sleep longer stretches. (bigger bellies and formula fills them up longer)
But in general, bigger babies often sleep longer.