7 month not sleeping through

[Becky6X]

Hi everyone,

Just looking for some advice. My 7 month old is still not sleeping through the night and waking up a silly amount of times :-(

He still wants 1-2 bottles during the night, I thought this should of stopped by now? I've read that it could just be out of habit but he drinks most of it so I think he must be hungry?

He also wakes sometimes every hour for his dummy. When he wakes he'll only go back off if he knows we're there/holds our hand/shhhing him

Nap times in the day he will only nap in our arms, if we put him down he wakes up. How do we get out of this!

One very tired mummy & daddy 😩

So I have a 6 month old and she was like that but now sleeps well. Some quick questions, when is his last nappy change before bed? How early are you trying to do bedtime? How well burped is he after his last pre-bed feed?

Swap his night bottles of milk for water
That's what I did around 7 months and he did stop waking for feeds. He did still wake, but not for feeds so it was much easier to pop his dummy in and get him back to sleep. Also it's normal for babies not to sleep through. Mine in 13mo and just about sleeps through, although usually up at 4am and I bring him to my bed for an extra couple of hours.

It's totally normal, if incredibly stressful.

My son didn't sleep through the night until he was over 2 and neither did many friends' children.

Sounds exhausting but pretty normal I'm afraid. I think between 7-9 months my DS was waking every 45mins-2hrs. It got better and he started sleeping through at around 11 months. We night weaned and did some work on self settling/not needing to be rocked to sleep etc.

Sorry, my 10 month old is the same. Wakes at least twice if not four times. Sleeping through is a long way off I think.

I had three. None slept through the night until well past a year old.

DS3 has started sleeping through the night this week and he's 10 months.. DS1&2 (twins) slept through from 4 months. I think it's luck of the draw

My 21m old doesn't sleep through 12 hours. I'd try diluting the milk and slowly swapping to water to reduce the night feeds.

Normal! I've read studies that say many babies don't sleep through the night reliably until the age of 2. Obviously some do, but lots don't. Most of my friends kids don't.

DS slept 9 solid hours from months 3-6 then woke up every night 2-3 times until he magically began sleeping through most nights at age 1. At 15 months, he now sleeps maybe 10 hours then wakes at 5am for a bottle, then sleeps til 8am!

Hi @LouiseTrees, he's changed into pyjamas and nappy changed at 6:30pm, bottle at 6:45pm, bed at 7pm. He brings up his wind really well so that's definitely not the problem. He goes down quite well at bedtime although we have to get him to sleep in our arms first x

Hi @BringMeThatHorizon, I'm really interested in teaching him self settling and night feed weaning, do you have any tips x

My DS has slept from 7pm to 5/6am (with a change & dream feed at 10pm) for a while now. He's 5 months old. He just started eating more through the day and didnt want any milk through the night. He did used to wake a lot for his dummy but we're teaching him to self soothe (for naps too). We used the shhh pat method but started by rocking and shhhing him. You need to put baby in cot awake but drowsy tho. Then youre meant to shhh while gently patting their chest but my son prefers stronking his cheek. We're now down to putting him in cot when tired, shhhing for a few mins and he's asleep. Sometimes he mumbles to himself and if so we can leave him without the sshhhing. When he wakes through the night if he cant get back to sleep in 10mins (next to me crib), i gently shhh and he goes out like a light.