My kid is almost 2 and still doesn't always sleep though the night. Its just luck of the draw I think, one kid will be out 20 hours a day and another will sleep for like 30 minutes every 12 hours.
I have been there and absolutely nothing worked, believe me I tried everything, my wife and I both work full time so we were zombies for about 6 months. Eventually she fell into a routine, we had been putting her to bed at the same time every night for months and she finally started sleeping the whole night through about half the time. That was when she was 9 months old I think. Like I said she still wakes up some times, she goes to bed at 9pm and will occasionally wake up at 11pm or midnight fresh and ready to go, and nothing short of an elephant tranquilizer will get her back to sleep.
Then again I have a friend whose kid has been on a regular sleeping schedule where she sleeps 10 hours a night ever since she was a month old. People like that should die a slow painful death. Well not really, but you want them to when you haven't slept for 48 hours because your kid kept you up 2 nights in a row and you had to go to work...
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