When Do Exclusively Breastfed Babies Sleep All Night?
When do they usually start only waking up twice a night, or once, and when do they sleep all night? Just curious, thanks!
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Every child is different, doesn’t matter if they are breastfed or not. My daughter waited until around 14 months and still doesn’t consistently do it. My friend’s baby did it at 8 weeks consistently and still does as a toddler. Both were breastfed, no sleep training, etc.
Every baby is different. It really doesn’t matter if they are exclusively breast fed or formula fed. Babies begin to wake up less at night and finally sleep through the night at a wide variety of ages. For example, I am mom to 4. All were exclusively breast fed for varying lengths of time. My oldest was breast fed until she was 5 months old than we moved to solids and formula. She was over 2 1/2 years old before we could reliably count on her sleeping through the night. Her baby brother actually slept through the night more often than she did. My youngest was exclusively breast fed until just before she turned 7 months and we did baby-led weaning with her. She regularly slept through the night right from birth. There just isn’t any way to know when a baby might begin sleeping through the night on a regular basis. It’s just as common for babies to want to be fed every 3 hours around the clock as it is for a baby to be able to go 6 or more hours at night without a feeding.
Sleeping through the night is a developmental milestone that all babies hit at different times. Most do so between 12 and 24 months. 18 months seems to be the average.
My daughter is 8 months and she still wakes twice a night, sometimes 3 times, to nurse. We co-sleep, so that makes getting her, and myself, back to sleep a bit easier.
I read somewhere once that about 80% of parents lie about their babies sleeping through the night. For some reason it’s seen as some obscure badge of parenting and many think sleeping baby = good mom, so they lie.
I really wish I could find that article, it was pretty amusing. I’ll look, and post it if I find it.
my son has been waking up once a night since he was around 3 months. He was getting up twice a night between 1 and 3 months. Right ow my son is 5 months and a typical night is; bedtime by 9 pm, 4 am feeding, back to bed, then awake for the day around 7 am. A medical definition of “sleeping through the night” is sleeping in 5 hour or more stretches. So technically he sleeps through the night, but i do get up at least once a night to feed him still. When he has a growth spurt though, i can be up every other hour all night. yowzah…
My baby would eat every 3 hours around the clock for the first 2 months. Then at around 2 months she would last about every 4-5 hours at night. Between 3-4 months she would wake up around 1:30 every night for a feeding. By 4 months and still today, she sleeps through the night from 8pm-8am. I never breastfed on demand though. I got her into a schedule and woke her up during the day every 3 hours to feed her and at night would let her eat on demand. Slowly those 3 hours at night would become longer… but I would keep feeding her on the button every 3 hours during the day, even if she was taking a nap. I’m so glad I did that. She’s 6 1/2 months now and we’re on a perfect schedule AND she sleeps through the night. Good Luck and I hope that helps. Remember, all babies are different and all moms practice different beliefs. My baby was easy to mold.
It’s different for all babys.. When your child is ready s/he is will sleep all night. Wyatt was breastfed until he was 9 1/2 months. Until he was 6 months he got up every 2 hours. Then he went to every 3 hours. In the last month we had about a week of him sleeping all night now he get’s up once. So I wouldn’t count on getting much sleep at night until your baby is about a year old. But like I said, all babies are different.
Every baby is different and will have different sleeping habits. When my daughter was a newborn she woke to eat at least every 3 hours, sometime 2 hours and she didn’t sleep through the night until she was 4-5 months old. I now have a 9 week old son and he has been sleeping 8-10 hours a night for the last month or so. And then he wakes to eat and goes back to sleep for another 2-3 hours. It’s heavenly. I ebf’d my daughter and am currently doing the same with my son. I hope that your baby sleeps well for you early on!
All babies do not sleep through the night at the same age.
some babies sleep through at 3 weeks, others at 3 years.
My first baby slept through at 6 months. Before that, she woke frequently. My second is 4 and a half months and still wakes up at least 4 times a night, although she did go two nights only waking 3 times…but other nights wakes every hour, and some nights every 2 hours.
My son was exclusivly breastfed for the first 8 months of his life. He would nurse atleast once a night usually until then, but he also slept in my bed so it could have been it was more accessable. Seriously, if you are having troubel nurisng, put your baby in your bed and it will make life a lot easier.
Depends on the baby. My daughter was 8 weeks – it was the night after her first injections, and I woke up the next morning assuming she must be dead. She’d slept for 9 hours having never slept for more than 3 before.
I repeatedly read on here that it’s impossible because breastfed babies never sleep through early. Well, she did. Carried on doing so, too.
every baby is different, my son use to get up every two hours when he was an infant now 1year and 9months and he sleeps ok sometimes he wakes up in the middle of the night. but what my sons doctor told me boys dont really sleep until they be 5yrs old. my girls were so and so . good luck! and congrats and hope everything goes good for you.
I honestly don’t recall when my daughter, now 22 months, slept through all or most of the night. My son, who is 10 weeks, only wakes me up once, sometimes twice a night. He’s been doing this for a few weeks now.
It’s different for every baby.
My first, now 23 months, was over a year before he was waking only 1 or 2 times a night. He has since weaned and still wakes up a few times.
My daughter is 4 months and she’s been waking up only twice a night since she was about 2 months.