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[sleepdodger]

7mo ds always been poor sleeper
Light at end of tunnel last few weeks & settled into amazing pattern of 730-11/12-130/130-7, previously every 2 hrs!
Until now and the last 3 nights have been 7-10 then HOURLY....
He's stuffed with food
He doesn't need a change
His teeth are troublesome but no worse than usual
He's a terrible napper but I can usually after much fighting persuade him to do 2x30 mins a day, more if in a car
He is on gavisgon for reflux but all ok
What os it?? What can I do
I'm fed up with being shattered it's putting strain on dh & me
We live miles away from family
I really thought that by 7mo he'd be better, not sleeping through or anything so luxurious but say 4 hours .....
Anyone any ideas?
So, what can it be??

Something developmental? My 7mo is crawling and into everything, as soon as he comes even a little awake he is up and crawling in his bed half asleep and banging his head etc. It is a nightmare.
Could it be anything like that? Often just the learning to do something new is disturbing enough to have them awake all hours.

Developmental plus a growth spurt. If he's got reflux you have to be careful about food (not always) as he might have a more sensitive digestive system causing wind at night (certainly in our case, had to e wary of green veg, dairy was a no, red meat was too heavy for dinner etc). Plus if you give less calorific solids at re expense of more filling milk he might be hungry.

Or teeth!

Thanks both, I just knew of 4month regress but nothing at this stage...
iggly did you settle on an ideal dinner pre bed, or lighter dinner more milk etc? I have noticed red meat is lunch only and not sure about dairy yet, I thought it made it worse but he did a rare good night after yoghurt last week so I thought not

I usually went for something simple at dinner - occasionally porridge, maybe a bit of chicken or rice/chicken basically. Some days we didn't bother with dinner - he was hit and miss on his third meal until he got to 9 months! Usually too tired to eat properly so a bit more milk. I avoided any veg or fruit.

DD 7.5mo sleeps similar to what you have stated above...well Ive got her back into waking up approx every 3 hours by stuffing her full of food during the day. I save her favourite foods for tea time as I know I'll have a better chance of getting them into her when she's tired etc. She's dropped her afternoon nap so I need to give dinner around 4:30, any later and she's just too tired to care about it. We also have had major sleep disruption any time there is anything developmental going on, middle of the night parties where she crawled and banged against the cot, the new thing is pulling up to standing then getting her foot stuck between mattress and side of cot. It's always worst just before/when she's learning something. Once she's got the hang of it, the parties stop (temporarily).