![]() ![]() Even toddlers who wake early or in the middle of the night are developmentally normal.īabies also don’t wear clocks or read calendars, so while many books and articles suggest your infant will sleep through the night by a certain date, there’s no guarantee.Įvery baby is different. Infants are still learning to experience the world and aren’t fully equipped to self-soothe. ![]() Newborns need to wake for frequent feedings. So for every parent who claims their little one slept through the night at just a few weeks old, there are plenty who are still waking with their babies at 6 months, 12 months, and beyond. Researchers found that 43 percent of 12-month-olds woke up in the middle of the night. ![]() Older babies weren’t getting a full night’s shut-eye either. It has been firmly established that sleep cycles exist, and adults experience brief periods of wakefulness each night, so why do we expect different from our littlest ones?įurther, a 2018 study showed that 57 percent of 6-month-olds were not “sleeping through the night” for 8 hours. Strangers have told me what I am doing right… and wrong.Īnd even though no one agrees on the solution, everyone agrees my son is an anomaly.Ī 2019 study found that as babies passed the 6-month mark it wasn’t that they were waking fewer times each night - it was that they weren’t waking their parents as often. Moms on social media have inundated me with sleep training tips and suggestions. Of infants who began sleeping through the night by their 16th week or, in some cases, their 12th. Well-meaning friends have told me stories of their blissfully sleeping babes. She’s making excuses.” I can hear you saying, “She’s wrong.” And that’s because I’ve heard it all. Now I know what you’re thinking: You’re saying, “She’s rationalizing. Not salves, scents, oils, or the dreaded “ cry it out.” And that is because it is normal for babies to be sleepless and restless.īabies are not designed to sleep ‘through the night’ On a good day, he stays asleep until 5 a.m.Īnd while I’ve tried to get him to sleep in and (more importantly) sleep through the night - I’ve adjusted his diet, bedtime, and the length of his naps - nothing works. and it’s a struggle to get him back to sleep. He regularly falls asleep on me, in his stroller, and at the dinner table, but in the evening, he is restless. You see, my son - my 13-month-old son - isn’t (and has never been) a good sleeper. Should Hunter be sleeping through the night?” “Great,” I said, strapping my screaming, freshly vaccinated son into his stroller. “Okay, well if all is well, we’ll see you in 3 months.” ![]()
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