Waking every two hours at night- any advice?

[longesteveningever]

I am after a bit of advice regarding my seven month old daughter. During the day naps are very variable but generally two to three between 30 mins and an hour- quite hard won, by rocking her in a pushchair in her nursery with white noise. Since about five months however she has gone from 10 pm to 6 am with a feed at 3am to waking for a feed every two hours from about 9.30pm to 5pm. She does go down to bed well. Bedtime routine and then I lay her down awake at 6.30 and after chattering she falls asleep on her own.

I think I realise some sleep training is needed, pick up out down was great at bedtime but I worry that she must be hungry to feed so much over night and I do not want to cut her off, I tried co sleeping but ended up waking up more during the night. She is breastfed with a couple of bottles of formula during the day with nanny and she is on three meals a day, mixture of purée and finger foods. I have not dropped any feeds in favour of food yet.

Do I wait it out as it is a phase? Will it get worse and worse? Is the feasible to hope for a night's sleep at the moment?

Sorry, should be 9.30pm to 5am!

Sorry no real advice, I'm in the same boat... DS is 6m and his sleep has been exactly like you describe since 4m (I guess you know about 4m sleep regression? childsleepscience.wordpress.com/2014/03/12/the-four-month-sleep-regression-what-is-it-and-what-can-be-done-about-it/)

I've trawled old MN posts, @FATEdestiny always seems to have good advice. She referred someone back to this post:

What worked for us. Hope this helps.
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/sleep/1394888-What-worked-for-us-Hope-this-helps

It is a sleep training method that I'm going to start with DS as soon as our house guests leave. Hope this helps, good luck!

Thanks for replying, thread was feeling a tad lonely! Yes sleep training beckons I think. I am just putting off the inevitable. Thanks for the links, I think I know the thread you mean, will definitely reread. Good luck with your training!

Given that she's 7 months old & if she's growing and eating well I wouldn't worry about hunger at night. Gradually reduce the amount she eats at night and she'll make up for it by eating more in the day.