7mth old waking in night

[Henrietta]

You must think Im terrible mum for my last post (How long can I expect 7 month old to go at night) since I got no replies. Hasten to add I only tried CC because nothing else was working and she was starting to not even go to sleep on a feed.

Anyway she finally went down at 7.30pm (about 1min of crying with just dummy & favorite teddy)stired at 10.00 but settled herself woke at 11 for a feed then at 1am (was going to play HELP so I fed her) she then slept till 7.30am thats the longest stretch of sleep I've had for 2 months so perhaps somethings working.

May try bringing tea forward cos 1.00 killed me (hubby up at 6.00am)would prefer her to wake earlier in morning.

Anybody else got a 7mnt old and how long do they go at night

Hi
My ds is a month younger - but still needs?? one or two night time feeds. I don't mind getting up - as long as he goes straight back to sleep again. But the night before last he wanted to play at 2am and wouldn't go back to sleep till I put him in is grobag and brought him in to bed with me.
My friend has advised 6 months is old enough to do CC to try and nip the night wakings in the bud before they get too much of a habit. Shall see how things go over the next couple of days and may try CC at weekend while dh can help out.

Thinks crowned at the w/e she woke every 2 hrs for feed. Looking back because we were away it may have been the unfamiliar surroundings but I was like a zombie on Sunday was glad to get home. She sleeps in travelcot at mums so didn't think that was problem but who knows?

Henrietta, DS sleeps 11-12hrs (touching wood) and he is 7.5mths. I know he wakes up in the night as I am a really light sleeper and can hear him stir, however he sucks his thumb so goes straight back off. Have you tried putting the dummy back in at 1am rather than a feed, she may have got into a habit of looking for a feed when really she's not hungry.
Sorry I can't be more help but I fully support your reasons for CC and like TracyK said I think the sleep clinics say that CC is ok from 6mths onwards.
Good Luck.

Thanks all
Yes have tried dummy & Water - takes water for a couple of sips then cries again. Maybe thirsty with heat anyhow see what she does tonight...trying sleeping bag...

My dd2 is nearly 8 months but probably not typical. She has slept through from 4 weeks, initially with a late-night feed at 10.30 which we dropped at about 6 months without any ill-effect.

Unfortunately more recently she's been waking at about 5am grumbling and then crying. She will happily take a feed at that time, but I don't want to reinforce the waking habit, so I'm letting her cry for a bit. After about half an hour of whinging and crying she went back to sleep last night till 6.30, and I'm hoping tonight will be better.

I am on baby no. 3, so I'm OK with getting a bit tough, but I'm sure others would disagree on this. I wouldn't leave her to really cry for long periods, though.

First, don't be so paranoid! The lack of replies is always just because it is such a busy board and you probably posted when hardly anyone was around. I certainly didn't see your message. My ds didn't sleep through until 8months with the help of a bit of cc after it failed to work at six months. But he's been a brilliant sleeper ever since and he's nearly three now. I think the night feeds are normally unnecessary by now but I would advise that you phase these out before you try cc-ing. I think the hunger is habit, but it will feel like hunger to your baby and I don't think moving tea forward will help particularly with your real problem which is the night waking.

Thanks all She did settle a bit better last night and though we disturbed her settled herself off again (though she got cold later on so I had to feed her (wince)). I think we're winning though.

My ds is 9 months and will go from 7-7 without a feed but does wake on average 3 times a night because he's lost this dummy, got onto his front and can't get back etc. On the whole he will go back to sleep but certainly if it takes more than couple of minutes I will feed him as guaranteed he just goes straight off. He slept through for the first time from 5 months with only a 7.00 feed so this isn't every night but I would personally rather do this and get him straight back to sleep it certainly hasn't developed into a regular thing.

aloha, it has always puzzled me how one could phase out night feeds without simultaneously doing cc. With both mine I have had a choice either to feed them or to let them cry - if I didn't feed, no other sort of intervention like cuddling or rocking would calm them (quite the opposite in fact) so deciding to cut out night feeds inevitably meant doing some variant of cc. I'm just curious what you mean as you have said it a number of times and I've always wondered!

Well, I personally gradually stretched out the gaps between his night feeds so that at first I wouldn't feed between say, (and this is a pretty dim memory btw), midnight and 4am, then 11pm and 5am (just making this up actually, but it was something like that), and in between would give dummy, cuddle etc, and maybe he wouldn't go to sleep but as my ds would happily feed and still not not sleep anyway it wasn't a big change Only once he was going from 10pm to 5 or 6am without milk did we leave him to cry. I personally think it would have been cruel to expect him to go back to sleep if he was previously being fed every two to three hours during the night as IME habit hunger is as real as 'real' hunger iyswim. It's also what Ferber recommends and it did work for us. Once I was confident he wasn't starving to death (and he started having a proper morning 'breakfast' feed) then the next bit was easy. He was eight months though. Funnily enough, he is nearly three now and sleeps for England.

My Hv sugested that I gradually reduce the amount of feeding done in the night. This was easy for me to do, as I was bottle feeding, I'm not so sure how easy it would be for a bf mum.

We gradually cut the amount of milk by 1 fl oz a week. So dd started on an 8oz a night, and this was gradually cut down. In the end she was down to 1 oz of milk and 1 oz of water. At this point she couldn't be bothered to wake for it. It did take 2 months, but it worked well. We later did cc, but not at the same time. HTH

Yes, didn't see your previous message Henrietta - I only look at the most recent and it's incredible how quickly the list turns over.
my 7.5 m old doesn't generally wake in the night and I'm afraid hasn't really done it since about 7 wks, apart from occasional legs stuck in cot bars or whatever. Definitely try cc if you want to, for me the point about cc is that you don't have to leave them to cry for long. Having said that, i tried it for the first time last night, only to find after 15 mins and 2 'visits' that the poor little chap needed to burp

Thanks for that clarification aloha, and hmb too. I guess for me I only withdrew night feeds once I was pretty confident they could do without them - i.e. they'd already slept through, or nearly through, a few times and I'd think 'right, no more bf in the night from now'. Because I have always always found that going and cuddling (without feeding) prolonged waking and crying much more than just leaving them to put themselves back to sleep i tended to do this pretty much cold turkey.
Unfortunately my nearly three year old is a bit of a cr** sleeper now, I long for the days when there was a simple solution.....

Thanks all 1st time back seemed to have powercuts everytime got her off to sleep.

SLeeping bag has helped - At least I know shes not waking because shes kicked covers off. Now wakes for a good feed at 11pm and 3am. or thereabouts. Goes 2 bed at 7.30 and wakes for day at 7.30.
Have used cc during day and this morning she cried for less than 10 mins (prob about 5) and went off - I peeked - no dummy in mouth just playing with teddy. This afternoon shes just went to sleep by herself (fed at 2pm) at 3.30 after "playing" for about 10mins NO CRYING!!!! dummy in and playing I think. so perhaps now shes learnt to go to sleep without crying she wont distub herself enough to be awake enough for a feed at night. Seeing she used to sleep for 10 hrs with a feed 3 hrs in I dont think she neds the feed but I think her bodys got used to having it. If I try to cut fed a bit shorter during night she cries minute I take her off till shes had enough milk.

Think Ill wait and she if she drops night feeds of own accord now starting to go off on her own.

This might seem like a stupid question, but how much solid food is your dd having during the day? My 7month old ds only wakes at night looking for his dummy and goes straight back to sleep. He has breakfast, lunch and tea plus 3-4 bf's a day now. Last bf around 7pm, then nothing again until around 6am when he takes a big bf. He's been taking solids since 24 wks and increasing gradually to his hunger.

She has 3 meals a day - She keps eating until she starts to slow down or refuses then I try something else eg pudding/drink. Getting plenty Id say. Feeds about 4-5 times in day plus water with meals/whenever.

Last 2 nights started waking every hour & half :( so think shes snacking now. Put her down today 7.00 and she was really tired because of short naps but woke at 7.30 so Ive had to let her cry went after 10mins after 15 mins then after 20 and changed nappy (clean just wet) cired for another 10 and is now finally asleep.

About 2 weeks ago we had one night where she went through without feeds don't know what was different but she hasn't done it since, but I know she can do it so...

Thanks all