How old were your babies when they started sleeping through the night and what were/are you "secrets" for getting them to??

Ds is just 2 months...he is still getting up every 3-4 hours to eat.......I don't mind that he still gets up...i just was wondering what everyone else has experienced....and how I can go about it when the time comes.

thanks!!

Dd started sleeping through at 6 weeks. I've said it before and I'll say it again, I SWEAR by the book, Secrets of the Baby Whisperer. I think it did the trick.

Oh Cornelia...I feel for ya hon. I had 3 kids. Not one of them slept worth a piddle. I was soooooo tired by the time the youngest one turned 3....I'm still making up for it, trying to bank an hour or 2 here and there :rest:

Ayla started sleeping through the night at around 2 months old. Once in a great while she'd wake up but other than that she got a good 8-10 hours straight sleep.

I wish I knew what I might have done to get her to do that, but it just sort of happened without me trying anything.

Madison slept through the night about her second month. That only lasted a couple of months. Now she is awake once a night and wants about half a bottle.

I heard routine really helps. PJ on the same time, story and then bottle. They get used to and enjoy the routine.

Ds#1 started sleeping all night around 8 weeks, and dd around 6 weeks. Ds#2, on the other hand, JUST started this week at a little over 5 months! I don't know what to tell you. Seems to me like it depends on the kid.

What does the book say, Amy?

I don't remember, lol.:toothy: (17 years ago)
I do remember that when they were old enough they really seemed to sleep better after a little cereal with their evening bottle.
Hang in there Cornelia, he will sleep through the night sometime soon. :hugz:

DD started sleeping through the night around four months, right after she graduated to regular baby formula and got off the preemie stuff. She now sleeps 8-10 hours each night. If she does wake, which is once or twice a week, I go get her and put her into bed with me and she goes right back to sleep. I'd rather do that than get her back into the habit of taking a bottle in the middle of the night.

We have a definite bedtime routine, and I rarely have trouble getting her to sleep. After 9:30pm, there's no more napping... if she dozes off, I wake her and start playing with her. Between 10:30 and 11pm we put on her pajamas, have a bedtime bottle, and snuggle in a semi-dark room-- usually in the rocking chair in the family room. She's usually asleep no later than 11:15.

I know I've been really lucky with DD- a friend's baby is a month younger and still gets up two or three times most nights. I really think it depends on the child... but then again, I only have one, so I'm no expert! ;)

Good luck!

It looks like my dd was the bad child. LOL Seriously she did not sleep through the night on a regular basis until she was 3 years, not months. I know it sounds impossible but its true. To this day she is a very light sleeper and any sound will wake her up. I have a sound machine in her room to help her sleep. We got up for three years and ate in the middle of the night. First it was just a bottle and then we graduated to 1/2 bowl of warm oatmeal. Looking back I wonder how I survived. Its no wonder I still feel sleep deprived.

DS was 6 weeks- thank the good lord!! If he was awake he was constantly screaming- so I really needed the peace and quiet. I also resorted to putting cereal in his bottle and I used a CD that was heartbeat therapy. It was lulliby's sung with a heartbeat going in the background. He absolutely loved it. It also came with a gaurantee that it would stop the crying and help them sleep, and it did. Even during the day when I couldn't take it anymore- within 10 mins, it had him sleeping like an angel.

DD was about 7 months- when I was able to start giving her heavier foods, not just pureed, watered down whatever. I'd just give her a bowl of thick baby cereal a couple hrs before bed, and that seemed to do the trick.

All of my kids have been different and I can't remember how each one of them slept lol but jayme is 4 months old and started sleeping allnight at about 2 months. When I say allnight....She's usually in bed before or at 8pm....up at 5 to eat(8 oz),back down till 8,she takes half a bottle and is up for maybe 30 mins and back asleep to about 11. I feel really lucky in how she sleeps now but when she was born..she was up every 1½-2 hours.I was dragging butt big time till she turned 2 months and starting sleeping better :)
I never did anything diff...she just started on her own :)
It shouldn't be long and he'll be snoozing all night and so can you :rest: