Did your baby sttn?

jensriot

I think sttn means different things to different people. Someone in another post mentioned their LO sleeps with no wakeups. At around one year, did your baby sleep all night with no wakeups at all? I consider my kids good sleepers, 11-12 hours for each of them starting as early as six months. At that age, all of my kids woke up at least once every single night though, usually about 3 hours into sleep. They cried for a few minutes and went back to sleep.

DS does this. He wakes up around 11pm, cries and goes back to sleep. We have family and a guest for a week and I warned them this would be happening. Last night I hear him cry, then my SM's friend goes running across the house to soothe him. He was up for an hour and a half. She probably thinks I'm mean, but he cries for a moment and goes right back to sleep, we don't go to him. We're talking 5 minutes. I'm going to ask her to leave him be today, but I was curious what everyone else does.

eaglesfan700

The first two were definitely sleeping straight through with no wakeups at a year.

Sorry hit post too soon. I wanted to say that I know what you are talking about though. DD 2 does it now, at 7 months. She wakes up for about a minute, she might whimper or even a cry, but then goes right back down. I would definitely tell them to leave him

dizzycooks

She would wake at 1am, nurse, and go back to sleep. Upon weening at 14 or so months she immediately went back to sleep, no soothing. Who was the fool there??

Cherryblossoms07

DD did. She was sleeping 8 hours a night at about three months. DS didn't sleep through the night continuously until after one, even then he had many incidents of regression until 2.

hokies94

I consider waking for a few minutes, crying and going back to sleep on their own STTN. Definitely tell your friend to leave them alone. That's normal sleep behavior. All of kids were STTN at 12 months. We used Ferber with #2 and 3. Somehow #1 did it on her own. She's a sleeper even to this day.

joyfullyfound

Wow, that's so odd that she'd go soothe your kid! Even if I disagreed with letting him cry, I'd never go against the parents' wishes while staying as a guest in their home... so weird. 

I can't remember if DD was sttn at one year or not... that's right around when she started, in any case. She was the worst sleeper in the history of babies for the first 9-ish months of her life, and now she's been making up for it because I almost feel guilty telling people about how well she sleeps, haha. 

She'll wake up and cry pretty regularly too, and we just ignore it as well. Sometimes I can tell something's really wrong and I'll go in to her, but usually she's just resettling from a weird dream or something... it's not real "help me" crying, it's just fussing, and if I go in it does more harm than good. 

Chapter79

DD was a super great sleeper from the start. Her longest stretch started at 5 weeks old.. she would sleep from around 10pm-4:30/5am. Once she was a few months old, she gradually moved the 10pm part to early times and slept longer.

Her worst sleeping habits actually started around the age of 2, when she would randomly wake in the middle of the night for silly stuff, and stay up awhile and keep calling out.  That lasted until she was like 4. I got bit in the butt.

nosoup4u

Both of mine didn't sttn with no wake ups until close to age two.

Andrewsgal

My children did not sleep through the night until we CIO 12 months for DS and 15 months for DD.

cactus5

Yes, all of mine slept through the night at a year. My youngest took the longest, but she sttn at 6 months.

chickaboo1974

My boys would sleep 8p-8a at 12 weeks.  They might have woke during that time, but they would fall back to sleep without making noise.  Even now- they sleep 7p-6:30 to 7a ish.  I know they wake in the night- I see them on the video monitor- but they roll over and go back to sleep.

CouponMon

Chapter79 said:

DD was a super great sleeper from the start. Her longest stretch started at 5 weeks old.. she would sleep from around 10pm-4:30/5am. Once she was a few months old, she gradually moved the 10pm part to early times and slept longer.

Her worst sleeping habits actually started around the age of 2, when she would randomly wake in the middle of the night for silly stuff, and stay up awhile and keep calling out.  That lasted until she was like 4. I got bit in the butt.

This is totally my life right now. DD1 was always a great sleeper. She "slept thought the night" at a few weeks old. She put herself on a nap schedule and everything. She turns two next week and she has started randomly waking up in the middle of the night and will not go back to sleep. Hopefully it's just a sleep regression and teething and doesn't last two years!

caybeh

Nope. DS didn't STTN until 15 months which was when I weaned him. He always woke up once to nurse. I would try not to nurse him, but it would always lead into a few hours ordeal and he would not go back to sleep until he nursed. Then one night, it's like it clicked. I told him we weren't nursing anymore, but he could have some water and crackers if he was hungry. He went back to bed, and haven't looked back. He will cry out sometimes during the night, but I can usually tell if he is going to go back to bed or if he needs something.

barnwife

No. Absolutely not. J. woke up every 45 minutes until I lost it when he was about a year. I couldn't take it anymore. We started some gentle sleep training then. And thankfully I started getting 2 or 3 hour stretches of sleep.

A. was probably only waking twice a night at that point. That's fine by me. We bedshare and I barely wake up to nurse LO back to sleep. 

We will see how S. does. He currently will not sleep for longer than 2 minutes if he is not next to or on someone else. (He's 6 months.) 

bumpuser8448316

No, DS didn't STTN with no wake ups until 15/16 months.

jensriot

ExpectantSteelerFan said:

We sleep trained doing CIO with both my kids, so by a year yes they were STTN.  They might have woken up and made noises (possibly crying for short times, although by a year I think I stopped using a monitor overnight with both, or maybe it was just DD), but I didn't get up to check on them or anything.

I've turned the sound off on the monitor now. Honestly if he's really needing me, I'll hear him. I'll just have to find a gentle way of telling her to leave him alone. These people are so sensitive.

rosesandpetals

No. DD was STTN when she was young, much younger than most kids. She was the easiest little baby ever. We are making up for it now. She wakes up several times every night and is up for an hour or more sometimes. She also pees through her diapers... We have her in overnight pull-ups because they're the most absorbent. Last night she went to bed at 6:30, woke up at 11:00, changed her, and she still peed through her diaper around 4 this morning. I'm starting to go crazy with the lack of sleep and outside of waking her up to change her diaper, I don't know what else to do. ETA: she doens't always need to be changed when she wakes up, sometimes she just wakes up.

zbeesma86

Z didn't start until 14/15 months I believe?

When she hit a year it was 1-2 times a night- full diaper or lost her pacifier.

Now, yes. Unless sick or teething.

ASullivan1231

Ok I'll admit we got REALLY lucky - DS started sleeping through the night at 5 weeks. We did nothing to promote it - he was just born that way. It meant he would sleep 10 to 6. By probably 7 or 8 months he slept 6:30 to 6:30.

Update: DS wakes up during the night, every night, but he self soothes.
I'd be annoyed with your guests. It's not their place to go in.

JeffandLeslie

DD wakes up once about an hour after going down and needs to be soothed. Then she wakes once to eat around 3-4. Minus teething, ear infections, etc., she has done that since two months.

raraavis28

My own personal definition of STTN was "doesn't wake up to eat," which happened around 6.5 months. Since then we've had nights w/ no wakeups, nights w/ one or two wakeups that required anything from a couple pats on the back to rocking in the glider for half an hour (the most of this was after N's surgery last October), but most often we'll hear a few random cries throughout the night, but then the fusser settles back down in a minute or two. I rarely need to go into the room to soothe anyone anymore (and they have to seem to really need it, b/c any time I go in there I risk the awake baby thinking it's party time....and then waking up his brother to join the party....)

I would be livid if a guest took it upon herself to override me like that. And my kids would probably also freak if anyone other than myself or DH came in to see them at night.

jensriot

It sucked and I mentioned at lunch today that if we just let him cry he'll sleep better. She said she heard him cry, but didn't say anything about going in. I saw her on the monitor. So now I'll have to make it clear tonight. I keep telling myself "it's just one week." I love seeing family and friends, but its kind of a PITA.

ASullivan1231

JenS2203 said:

It sucked and I mentioned at lunch today that if we just let him cry he'll sleep better. She said she heard him cry, but didn't say anything about going in. I saw her on the monitor. So now I'll have to make it clear tonight. I keep telling myself "it's just one week." I love seeing family and friends, but its kind of a PITA.

Oh yikes. That's so weird she didn't acknowledge going in there, but you saw her on the monitor! I'm
Sure it's harmless, but a little creepy.

jensriot

ASullivan1231 said:

It sucked and I mentioned at lunch today that if we just let him cry he'll sleep better. She said she heard him cry, but didn't say anything about going in. I saw her on the monitor. So now I'll have to make it clear tonight. I keep telling myself "it's just one week." I love seeing family and friends, but its kind of a PITA.

Oh yikes. That's so weird she didn't acknowledge going in there, but you saw her on the monitor! I'm Sure it's harmless, but a little creepy.

This exactly how I feel. How bizarre. No big deal in the grand scheme of things, but strange.

superToots

Fuck no. (:|

meglew

DD1 was sleeping 7:30pm-7/7:30am at 5 months.  I did not realize how good I had it.

DD2 has slept from 8pm-7am ONE TIME in her 53 weeks on this planet.  She usually wakes anywhere from 1-3x/night.  She has some longer stretches, but it is super unpredictable.  There seems to be no rhyme or reason to her good vs. bad nights.

vlagrl29

yes at 1 year DD was sleeping 12 hour straight (9-9), it was lovely!

jensriot

@Sing4mysavior I'm clinging to DD2's naps for dear life. DD1 is so good for quiet time, but if DD2 stops napping I might cry. DS is still good with them and my sanity hinges on that little break in the day.