baby's sleeping

@crazymom (579)
United States
October 24, 2006 1:30pm CST
How old was your child when he/she started sleeping through the night?
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@limcyjain (3516)
• India
26 Oct 06
my daugher was around 8 months when she started sleeping all night.
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@crazymom (579)
• United States
27 Oct 06
How long did she sleep before she started sleeping through the night?
@sbeauty (5865)
• United States
27 Oct 06
My daughter started sleeping through the night at about 3 months. My son had chronic ear infections, and I don't think he slept clear through the night until he was about 2.
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@sbeauty (5865)
• United States
27 Oct 06
You want to help a sick baby so much, but there's only so much you can do. They can't even tell you what's wrong or what hurts.
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@crazymom (579)
• United States
27 Oct 06
I know that is the big problem, I hate that. If they could just tell us what hurts, it would cut out a lot of the sleepless nights.
@crazymom (579)
• United States
27 Oct 06
Poor thing! I just hate it when babies are sick.
@DRoddy77 (1776)
• United States
25 Oct 06
I got REALLY lucky with all of my kids. When my oldest was first born he had his days and nights backwards and would sleep all day and be up all night, but by 6 weeks old he got the routine down and started sleeping through the night. My twins would sleep at night time and just wake up every 3-4 hours to eat, then they would go right back to sleep. They both started sleeping through the night completely at 4 weeks..both of them on the same night!
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@DRoddy77 (1776)
• United States
26 Oct 06
No, not really..I just tried to have them on a routine every night!
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@crazymom (579)
• United States
26 Oct 06
Well, I already have him on a routine but that is not working
@crazymom (579)
• United States
25 Oct 06
Do you have any tricks to share??
• United States
27 Oct 06
I got really lucky with my three they were all about 6 weeks when they started sleeping through the night. And they were long nights too so they got plenty of rest.
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@crazymom (579)
• United States
27 Oct 06
Since they slept all night did they take any naps during the day?
@crazymom (579)
• United States
27 Oct 06
I guess that you are one of the lucky ones.
• United States
27 Oct 06
Yes they took after noon nap it would usaly last about two hours.
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@kadybug (87)
• United States
25 Oct 06
i have a 2 1/2 month old daughter...she slept most the night at 1 month she would wake up at like 7 in the morning i would give her a bottle and she would go back to sleep, but now she sleep until like 10 or 11 with out waking up at all
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@crazymom (579)
• United States
25 Oct 06
Wow!! That is great!! Do you have any tricks to make them sleep through the night??
@crazymom (579)
• United States
25 Oct 06
I am going to have to try the johnsons bath, because I already give a bath before bed....maybe that will help.
• United States
25 Oct 06
well i make sure she is good and full and then i give her a bath and put johnson's bedtime bath in the water...and about 10 mins after the bath she is out for the night
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• United States
25 Oct 06
My daughter is 8 wks. Most nights she sleep 6 hrs and takes a bottle then goes right back to bed. She slept 8 hrs the other night but only that night. Hopefully she will make it through the night soon
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@crazymom (579)
• United States
25 Oct 06
Mine is three months old today and has spept through the night twice, and I have no clue why he did but I wish that I did because I would do it every night.
@crazymom (579)
• United States
26 Oct 06
That is great!! I wish you the best of luck. I hope it works. He wakes up, but after he takes his bottle he usually goes right back to sleep. Hopefully soo he will sleep for at least 8 hours.
• United States
26 Oct 06
crazymom- last night my daughter slept 8 hrs again. what I have done both times is feed her a bottle around 6:30 then keep her up for around an hour or so. when she starts to yawn I give her a bath with the Johnson's bedtime bath with lavender and also use the lotion. I put her in her pj's and swaddle her really good. She cries for about 10 mins trying to get out but I just hold in her pacifier and rock her and "spank" her butt. She ususally passes out pretty good. Last night she woke up at 4am. I am going to try and slowly push back her evening bottle and bath to hopefully get her to sleep until 5 or 5:30 when I get up for work. Hopefully you find something to work for you
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• United States
27 Oct 06
my daughter slept all night but now she just turned 4 and i cant her to sleep til 5 or 6am
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@crazymom (579)
• United States
27 Oct 06
That is different. Someone else on this discussion said that their son is 5 and he doesn't sleep very well.
@karinna (233)
• United States
27 Oct 06
my daughter is going on 2 and she started sleeping all night only a few months after she was born. i always bath her befor bed, i put her in her room with very dim lights and play phil collins and she goes out pretty fast.
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@crazymom (579)
• United States
27 Oct 06
Oh! I have a sound machine that plays different sounds, he likes the rain the best.
@chebel82 (417)
• United States
25 Oct 06
Let's see I have 5 kids, the first were twins and they were about 1 1/2 yrs,then another girl at 2, then my only boy just last year at 3, and i'm still waiting on my last girl to sleep ALL through the night.
@crazymom (579)
• United States
25 Oct 06
Wow!! How do you handle getting up every night for that long??
@chebel82 (417)
• United States
25 Oct 06
I still have no idea how I can do it LOL
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@crazymom (579)
• United States
25 Oct 06
Weel, I wiss you the best of luck!! I have your last girl will start sleeping through the night soon.
@aimee750 (1116)
• United States
27 Oct 06
My daughter was 18 mos old before she slept through the night. My son was 2 mos old before he slept through the night. Obviously it varies a lot.
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@crazymom (579)
• United States
27 Oct 06
Yes it does! I wish that there was some secret that someone knew why it does.
@LadyElektra (1078)
• Canada
27 Oct 06
she is 5 ty
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@crazymom (579)
• United States
27 Oct 06
She is a cutie!!
@LadyElektra (1078)
• Canada
27 Oct 06
yup i got that trick from my mom too :) here is my angel
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@crazymom (579)
• United States
27 Oct 06
Oh! How cute. How old again???
@LadyElektra (1078)
• Canada
27 Oct 06
9 months old..i put a spoon of cereal in her bottle and she slept all night
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@crazymom (579)
• United States
27 Oct 06
My mom told me to try that. I was just afraid to do it. But, I turned out alright though.
@angelface23 (2494)
• United States
27 Oct 06
Stephanie was about 2 1/2 months when she first slept through the night. I was so happy because I am used to lots of sleep and obviously not getting my 12 hours when she first came home so it was nice and she still sleeps through the night unless our butthead neighbors wake her up.
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@crazymom (579)
• United States
27 Oct 06
YOu have it made!! I wish mine would do that.
@jolamama (92)
• United States
27 Oct 06
Both of mine slept through the night at 2 months.
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@crazymom (579)
• United States
27 Oct 06
Lucky!! Any tricks??
@indiandevil (2410)
• Canada
27 Oct 06
believe it or not my son started sleeping through the night not long after I brought him home from the hospital. I think he was a week or two old.. He scared me one morning because I was up, from pain one night and I woke him up around two am from moving in and out of my room his crib was right beside my bed, I fed him and put him back down and went to sleep for the night, he slpet through until 12:30 the next morning!!! I woke up panicing because I thought something had happened to him during the night. Ever since then I would put him to bed round 9 or 10 and he would sleep until morning.
@crazymom (579)
• United States
27 Oct 06
Wow! You were really lucky. I would have done the same thing when I woke up and he hadn't woke up yet. I would have been soooo scared
@erielle (1280)
• United States
27 Oct 06
I cant remember exactly. I think he was somewhere around 1 or 2 months old though.
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@crazymom (579)
• United States
27 Oct 06
I can't believe how lucky you guys are..I wish that I was so lucky. The thing is that there is not really any reason why one child will sleep through the night and the next one wont?!?!
• United States
27 Oct 06
i have 3 kids they all slept thru the night by the age of 6 months....
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@crazymom (579)
• United States
27 Oct 06
I hope that I am that lucky.
• United States
27 Oct 06
You mean they're supposed to sleep through the night?! LOL It took a while, but mine started sleeping through the night by the time they were a year old.
@crazymom (579)
• United States
27 Oct 06
That is how I feel, like it is a big joke and they really never sleep through the night.
@tarachand (3895)
• India
27 Oct 06
Around 16 to 20 months, I have three kids and had to take turns with the feeding bottle once they were weaned off by my wife. My oldest son took about 16 months and the youngest one about 20 months. The older one had been weaned off at about 9 months and the youngest one at about 13 months. My daughter who's the second child, well my wife fed her till she was almost 18 months and then weaned her off, but she adjusted quite quickly.