Baby has never slept through

[BeanJen]

My 7 month old little girl has never slept through the night. She goes down at 6:30/7pm with a bottle and usually wakes up once or twice when we are downstairs but goes down quite easily, then she wakes up when we go to bed but at that time she is always much more upset and wants to breastfeed. I'm looking to put her in her own room next week because I think we wake her up and I'm hoping to drop the night feeding but she won't take a bottle at that time so far she will only feed from me. Any suggestions? Am I the only one who is still up quite a few times in the night with my baby at 7 months? My husband keeps asking if it's normal and he's doing my head in! Ha.

Very normal. Sorry. No advice. My 8 month old is similar. Will go to bed but wake frequently still. My daughter grew out of it around 7/8 months I think and slept really well. He is another kettle of fish entirely. I am afraid I don't have any answers (searching for some myself) but do have much sleep deprived sympathy.

Seven months is still very young . Many don’t sleep through til 18 months. I know it’s tough to keep on going but you sound like you’re doing a great job

Have you tried putting her down later ?

My baby turned one last week and still wakes exactly
Same as yours!!!

She's bottle fed but it's comfort and I have no idea how to change it!!

I should say I'm not willing to leave her to cry for any length of time, it's not worth it for me I'm not particularly tired I just think she could do with the extra sleep and I'd like her to not wake up upset because she's tired which she does at like 2/3/4/5am

She sounds totally normal, both my babies had me up through the night at that age, and beyond. It's also normal for babies of this age to need to feed at night. Hard work, but it won't be forever

Normal.

Very normal. My twins were bottle fed but woke more often, and insisted on a lot of milk through the night until 16 months ish. At 7 months most babies still need night feeds!

Perfectly normal. My DS was the same but he had reflux as well, I remember being up around 10 times a night at one point but it did get better.
He's now 3 and still wakes maybe once or twice a night, usually around 3/4am. I gave up and just bring him in our bed. Never did the cry it out method either as I couldn't just lie there while he screamed and cried, it broke my heart. It does get better eventually.

Normal I'm afraid! My first DS slept 12 hours from early on but second DS is only starting to give us a decent nights sleep at 13 months. Up until now it's been hourly/two hourly wake-ups...

My baby did not sleep through until she got all of her teeth at 2.3 years.

Babies waking frequently at night for the first couple of years is normal. Hard, but definitely normal. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

Both my daughters didn't sleep through until they went to school age 4. Their brother is much better and although has gone through phases from around age 2 he has been sleeping through again since just after he turned 3. There's some good articles somewhere about why babies don't sleep through if you have a google. Mine were/are breastfed though and I wonder if that made a difference as they frequently woke for feeds until age 2.5

DD2 is nearly 14 months and she’s never slept through. DD1 was 23 months before she did. Completely normal, don’t fight it. Hit the haribo and coffee.

Normal. My 6 month old wakes around 11 and 3.
One of my children slept through at 8 months, the other not until 2.5.

Who told you she should be sleeping through the night at 7 months? Some do, some don’t. Totally normal. My 14 month old has STTN 4 times.

My 18 month old still doesn't sleep through the night. Totally normal. Don't worry, try to nap when you can, eventually, they sleep. Eventually. Sometimes. My 9 year old still wakes up occasionally...so...

Sadly very normal.

DD1 finally STTN at 16mo, DD2 did it (mostly) for a month from 3mo, then not again until she was well over a year.
They are 22mo and nearly 4yo now. Most nights we are up with at least one of them at least once. They average 2 or 3 nights a month of both STTN.

Reiterating normal. For us anyway. Dd is 13 months and has never slept thru. We've had periods of positively awful sleep where she's thought the cot is lava and other times not quite as bad. Now, she'll sleep in her cot till I go to bed then from first wake up we'll co-sleep. More because I'm back at work and need the sleep to be honest. I'm patiently waiting for it to get better. I'm not comfortable letting her cry it out either. My parenting mantra has been 'It's a phase, this too shall pass!'. Granted, sleep has been a helluva long one

I have an eight month old. He wouldn’t dream of sleeping though the night, he loves his quality time with me 😬.

My four year old slept reliably at night from about 20minths (yep - just before he turned two), I have few ambitions about lengthy sleep for the baby.

Both of mine have gone weird with sleep about the time they started crawling and getting teeth (6-9m). It’s a particularly trying time for sleep and I think whatever works for you is the best thing.

Oh wow this makes me feel much better thank you for all your replies. I suppose what has made me worry is my sister did cry-it-out with all three of her children and they each slept through from 6/8 weeks.
She was really annoyed today telling me how her little boy (2 weeks younger than mine) still wakes up sometimes in the night. I was just thinking oh well we're a lot worse than that!
But like I said I'm lucky I can function well on interrupted sleep and never really feel tired. It's important to me that I see to her in the night and don't leave her to think I'm never coming.

You are doing fine and have a healthy baby by the sounds of it.

My first slept 12 hours at 5 weeks and from then on.

Second is much more ‘normal’ in that she woke every flipping 90 minutes until about 7 months. She is now 9 months and wakes once at roughly 1am then in with us from about 5 until 7.

She was BF until 8 months.

On balance I think she was on the rough end of normal as a BF baby and is now still on the rough end of normal as a Ff baby.

You sound like you are coping great - don’t let anyone make you feel bad

Totally normal, some sleep for long spells earlier than others.
My second dc slept through from 6 or 7 months but the other two woke at least four hourly until they were school aged and once a night for much longer than that. Different characters.
I certainly think that it is not to be expected for a little baby of 7 months to sleep through.

Cry it out from 6-8 weeks??! That's insane and is exactly why you should stop listening to her immediately.

My ds just turned one and has never slept through. It's rubbish but it is normal and you just have to get on with it. I personally wouldn't let him cry anyway because I think it's mean and he'd just wake his brother up anyway. Hang in there, it'll get better eventually, or maybe it won't but you'll be so used to it you'll barely notice!

Cry it out at that age makes me feel sad for the little ones. Many adults can’t last the night without waking, why should we expect tiny babies?!?

My DD didn't sleep through till she was 2. 7 months was a particularly bad time. Sorry! Very normal.

Cry it out at 6 weeks? Seriously? If that's true it's unbelievable.

I'm pretty sure even hardcore sleep-trainers would have something to say about that. Your baby is normal. She is not.