Do some babies never sleep through?

[Eminybob]

DS is nearly 7 months old and although he's not a bad sleeper, he has not yet slept through the night.

He wakes up once or twice. There was a point where it looked hopeful, he was waking around 3-4 am when he was about 3 months so I thought he'd get later and later until he didn't wake at all but he's gone back to waking at 1-2am and then later at 4-5am.

Then he's usually up for the day around 6.

I know this is not half as bad as some have it, but I just need a full, unbroken nights sleep. DS was EBF until a couple of weeks ago, I started giving him a bottle of formula before bed to see if that helped, it did for a couple of nights now he's back to before. I do bf him when he wakes as thats the quickest way to get him back to sleep.

Do I just have one of those babies who will never sleep through, do you think it will come with time, or is there anything I can do to help? Not prepared to do cc or cio as it is only a 10 min job to feed him back to sleep.

*Eminybob snap! DS1 is 5.5 months and has never 'slept through' but when he was between about 4 and 8 weeks he'd do 7pm to 2am which is a pretty good stretch. Since he turned 16 weeks it really has gone tits up! We ditched the dream feed as it seemed to disrupt his natural sleep pattern as he always woke 2 hrs later. Now he's down at 7pm and on average wakes at 12am then 4am then 6.30am. But I don't even lift him out his crib to feed, just out a bottle in and he's back to sleep. My issue is I can't get back to sleep when he's woken so I really need a good stretch out of him. I'm trying to reduce the amount he gets at 4am in the hope he stops waking then. Seriously thinking about just giving him water but will wait until he's 6 months. We're just about to move him into his own room so I wonder if that'll help.

DD is 14 months and doesn't sleep through. We've done everything possible to encourage it, even had a sleep consultant, but she's still up at least once a night. Just accepted that that's the way it is now!

I am also a terrible sleeper and can be awake for 3-4 hours between feeds.

Rubbish innit?

Yeah it really is. I think everyone expects you to be tired when you have a baby but don't understand how much worse it is when you lie awake for hours even when the baby is asleep. I find it soul destroying! You have my sympathies (and fingers crossed your baby turns out to be a better sleeper than mine ).

Well that was a bad night

I think I saw every hour on the clock from 1am. Then he wouldn't go back down after 5.20. Luckily DP kindly took him downstairs to let me get some more rest. He's having a nap now. (DS, not poor DP he has had to go to work)

To be fair though, DS does have a bit of a cold, mainly just a really snotty nose, which I think could be effecting his sleeping. At least I hope that's what it is, and not the start of a new phase.

If it makes you feel any better my 4.5 wakes ever hour in the night up till 2am then from 2am he wakes ever 2 hours and has done since birth. He a big boy though and was 8lb when born and over 20lb now so I assume he just growing fast and needs the feeds. He is ebf.

Ds is 2.5 and doesn't sleep through 2 nights out of 5. He only slept through for the first time at 19 months when we gave up on the cot and gave him a big bed.
We stopped feeding in the night at 7 months - this was more accident than design. he had been waking every 45 mins for weeks and one night i just bought him into bed with me and he slept from 11.00 until 8.
We never offered him a bottle/breast at night again unless he was ill. To get them back to sleep you have to aim for shh, singing, stroking etc.
TBH that never really worked either and he hated the cot -we ended up mostly co-sleeping as otherwise i wouldn't have been able to cope with going back to work.
we tried cry it out a few times and basically he wouldn't go to sleep - would still be awake at 11- or on one occasion 1am.

The real trick was getting him to go to sleep without me touching him - and in a room so dark he thought i could still be there and i could use my voice over the monitor. I would sit on the floor (now i do Pilates v quietly and reassure with my voice until he drops off.
good luck