7 month old won't sleep through the night.

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My daughter is nearly 7 months old and for the past 3 nights she has been waking up in the night crying (never at the same time). Previously she has been sleeping through the night from 10pm through till 8am. I'm not sure why she wakes up crying. At first thought it may have been a nightmare, as her crying is quite full on. But as this is the 3rd time, I'm not so sure. I pick her up and cuddle her and nothing settles her apart from a bit of milk. She is not teething, so I know it's not that. I just don't know why she is waking up in distress and hoping it's not becoming a pattern.
I know she is not cold as we have the heating on at different times through out the night and she doesn't feel cold. Nothing has changed in her routine. Any ideas as to whay this happens?

I think the general rule of thumb for younger babies is that if they wake at irregular times they're hungry, but if they wake a regular times it's habit.

There is a big growth spurt at about 6 months so it could be she's just hungry, particularly as this is a new thing. Try upping her solid food during the day and may be just accept you're going to have to feed her at night for a few days. If it lasts for more than a week to 10 days then there's something else going on, but from your post my instinct is growth spurt.

my son is the same age and has started doing this, we tried everything then someone suggested it was teething, have given him a small dose of neurofen before bed and now he either sleeps through or wakes after 6/7 hours when the meds have worn off... might be worth a try?

The other thing we did that helped a bit was add an extra blanket on top of grobag (with his feet at foot of the cot) when we went to bed as did some research and said babies that wake between 3 and 5 are nearly always waking as they are cold!

I've already put more blankets on as it's getting colder now and might try giving calpol and see if it's that. If not then I'll try more food. Thanks guys :)

my daughter is the same.

So tonight - Calpol given - extra blankets increased. Can we all stay in touch and see whats working?

She has screamed a couple of times already (bedtime is 7pm) but when I get there she is asleep again.

You are very lucky if they sleep through-all mine were 2 yrs before they managed it!

When she cries does she try to rub her ears at all? It might be earache and if you have a few more nights of this I would have them checked. I had this with my DD, only realised it was earache once I saw pus coming out of her ear. She had no temperature and her behaviour was normal during the day. The same with my DS, he kept waking up for about 2 weeks until I realised it was his ears. It can get very painful al of a sudden when laying down therefore the very loud cry. I hope that helps.

Good suggestion baabi I hadn't thought of that - her ears have been a bit productive with wax recently - will have them checked today.

DD had a few screaming moments before 10pm (bedtime 7pm) but was asleep again before I got there (small house so l wonder if she really woke at all) and then woke happily at 4.30 but was warm and cosy but def hungry and went back to sleep after some milk until 7am (daddy woke her going to work!) so l am going to increase her food today and see if that helps.

How did everyone else get on?