STTN
Also called sttn, sleeping through, sleeping through the night
STTN stands for sleeping through the night. There's no single agreed meaning: parents use it loosely, and researchers count a stretch of 5, 6 or 8 hours in a row.
How it's said
So, some reassurance needed: when your LO finally STTN, did it change your life?
I feel like such a failure of a mum. All my friends' babies STTN; they go to sleep in their pushchair, car seat and so on.
So the last time I slept longer than 6 hours without waking (STTN) was probably childhood...
Who says it
Where it came from
It's shorthand from parenting forums and sleep coaching blogs. Studies of young babies going back to 1957 used five hours or more of unbroken sleep as the measure.
A 2018 study of 388 babies tested both six and eight hours and found that 27.9% to 57.0% of babies at 6 and 12 months didn't sleep through by those counts.
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