Struggling to cope with night feeds now

[midori1999]

Any advice? I'm so tired and it's making me grumpy and snappy and very resentful of DH who (jokingly, but nonetheless!) complained that he had to get up with my 7 yr old last night.

DD is 7 months old and has gone from waking once or occasionally twice a night to much more frequently, sometimes hourly. Is there a sleep regression or something at this age? She has also been feeding much more in the day and was really biting me this evening at her bedtime feed. (she has no teeth yet though) could it be teething? She shows no other signs.

We did cosleep and I much preferred that and felt I got much more sleep. However, she started rolling onto her front and her doing that in our bed frightens me. I do have a bed guard and we observe the safe bedsharing guidelines. She sleeps on the outside, not next to DH, no duvet etc Am I worrying for nothing?

Any advice on how to get through this would be great.

What about her rolling frightens you? At 7 months she is pretty robust.

Thankyou. I don't think I'm being very rational about it tbh. I think maybe it's just that our mattress isn't designed for a baby and is a few years (literally) old and not brand new. I am probably being really silly.

Honestly I can't think of any harm coming to a child from sleeping on a not brand new, not specially designed mattress :)

Has the unsettled sleep coincided with you moving her out of your bed?

I agree with the last poster and don't think you have anything to worry about. she may well be teething, have you had a little feel to see what's going on? How do you usually settle her when she wakes in the night? my dd is 6mo and wakes frequently and I feed her back to sleep but have found she will wake up cos of wind then.

Thankyou. I was feeding when I posted and decided to keep her in our bed after that. She briefly woke a couple of times but very quickly went back off again and had a big feed at 5am after which I moved her back into her cot. I felt much better this morning so will do the same tonight.

Rita the waking hasn't coincided with her moving out of our bed, except when tiny she's always spent the first bit of the evening/night in her own bed until the first feed and moved out of our bed about 2 months ago when she started rolling at night.

ER thanks. I did feel as I thought it might be teeth, especially with the 'biting' but I can't feel anything obvious. I always feed her back to sleep when she wakes as its the fastest way with the least (no) crying. If DH gets her out of her cot when she wakes at night she immediately cries hysterically as she knows he's not the one with her 'mooks' and she won't settle for me except on the breast at night. She doesn't really get windy now.