for the first time my daughter slept through the night!!!!!!!!

[commander bunnypants]

and I got to sleep

:boring: :boring:

CB

[dr.strangelove]

1. Congrats

I've been there. Its a nice feeling. We had a few months after the first time my daughter slept through the night where it was not every night, but it kept getting better. There is nothing like sleeping for 7 or 8 hours without a child waking you in the middle of it.

[underpants]

2. Good!

How old is she now?

Do you have one of those mechanical rockers? Oh man that was like a third parent.

[commander bunnypants]

4. almost 3 months

yep she likes the rocker.

CB

[LibDemAlways]

12. You don't know how lucky you are.

My daughter first slept through the night at age 4 - as in four years. The first three were pure hell.

[crim son]

3. That's great!

A triumph, really. I remember praying for the day when I could just get in my car without securing anybody into a car seat. That day finally arrived too. Sweet.

[bbernardini]

5. Damn! Beat me to this kind of post!

My son just did it for the second time last night. He just turned 10 weeks on Tuesday.

[eyesroll]

6. My stepdaughter is 4 and doesn't do that.

Yeah, her night wakings are a lot easier than a baby's -- no feeding, no changing (except for very rare accidents), usually just a few minutes to resettle her (she was "attachment parented" to the point where she can't settle herself if she wakes up--no, I'm not knocking AP but there is a downside)...but more often than not, she's up around midnight and again sometime between 2 and 4.

Congratulations.

[MountainLaurel]

9. Hell, I'm 34 and still don't

Never have, except when under the influence. I never understood why babies are expected to sleep through the night when most adults don't.

[eyesroll]

10. Well, to be fair, "sleeping through the night" is 5 hours when you're a baby...

I've heard that's the yardstick -- if they go more than 5 hours between full-on wakings, they've slept through the night..

And when adults wake up, they usually go to the bathroom or get some water or whatever and then go right back to sleep. Babies, especially very young ones, might be up for hours at a time during the night for no discernible reason. (Even kiddo, when she was 2, occasionally decided it was playtime around 3 a.m. -- thankfully, this only happened at her mom's house, not here. Mom dutifully got up and supervised the playtime; I'm not sure I would have done the same in that situation.)

[QMPMom]

7. Congratulations!

We were lucky with our daughter. She slept through the night from the first night home from the hospital. We sat there that first night staring at her waiting for her to wake up. She didn't so we woke her up! My mother-in-law said we were crazy and that if DD wanted food she'd let us know and to sleep when we could!

The next year we had the baby from hell. Our son woke up like clockwork every three hours and wanted all manner of attention before he'd consent to go back to sleep. I could get a night feed done in an hour. He'd make my husband dance to his infant tune for at least 2 hours before he'd go back to sleep.

[youthere]

8. I remember when that happened for the first time...

It was heaven. Absolute heaven.

[bigwillq]

11. YAY!

:bounce:

[nosillies]

13. Congrats! We just got to that point a couple of weeks ago, ourselves.

I won't tell you how old my babe is, 'cause it would piss you off, but after you wake up that first morning and reassure yourself that no, he's not dead, the feeling of happiness that washes over you is indescribable! :bounce:

My friend has a two year old who still won't sleep through the night. I think I'd run away from home if that were my child.

[Maine-ah]

14. congrats! There is no other feeling like it, is there?

We were really lucky, DD has been sleeping thru since 6/7 weeks. She still wakes up once and a while, but will go right back to sleep.

Here's to sleeping thru the night!:toast: :bounce: :bounce: :toast:

[jobycom]

15. Yay! Now you can sleep

Until she's sixteen and stops sleeping through the night again.

[commander bunnypants]

16. and she will never have the down stairs bedroom.

CB