So my 7 month old (almost 8) is waking up so often during the night. Tonight he’s literally been awake every hour… and there doesn’t seem to be a reason.
he has a good routine, bath, pjs, bottle, bed… he goes to sleep well, he can get himself off to sleep and has resettled himself after every wake up tonight… but it’s literally been every hour.
In the end I went in, changed his nappy, offered him milk but he didn’t want it… so back to sleep… but I can’t figure out what’s waking him up. He’s not cold, it’s dark in his room, he doesn’t appear to be teething and he didn’t actually need changing. He sleeps in a sleeping bag with a blanket secured over the top.. if I didn’t do that he’d wriggle about… but he hadn’t wriggled out of place and was still where I’d put him.
he’s never slept through the night.. he was still having about 3 bottle feeds a night up to about 5 months old.. he will now very occasionally go from 7pm to between 9 and 10 and have another full bottle then go to around 6. But recently again, he’s been waking at around 9,11,2 and then 5.. he doesn’t always want milk and it’s not like he seems to rely on a bottle to sleep.
In the day he eats loads- 3 meals, 2-3 bottles of milk a day (but he’s more interested in food than milk now).. he will go to sleep for his naps in his cot when he’s home and then a travel cot when I’m at work and he’s with my parents. He usually has 2 naps a day (sometimes 3) that last around 30-40 minutes.. sometimes longer but not often.
im utterly exhausted.. I can’t have any more time off work and partner can’t particularly help at night because at the moment he’s relegated to the sofa every night… his snoring is so utterly horrific that he’s on a waiting list for some sort of sleep study/help… I can’t have him upstairs with me because he’s disturbing what little sleep I do get.. but because he’s downstairs, it means he doesn’t even hear when our baby is awake.
We have two other children (mine from previous relationship).. and whilst the middle one wasn’t amazing with sleep, she wasn’t this bad (I was blessed with the eldest).. so now I’m wondering is this normal, or is there maybe something else going on that I should be worried about? Sleep deprivation is killing me.. I have to run a business and work daily and I’m not functioning very well at all… will this ever get any better?
thank you in advance x