My 7 month old still wakes up 3 times a night!!

[Allegra1]

Hi, hopefully someone can help me.
My almost 7 month old girl still wakes up 2-3 times a night. But it isn’t for milk as she only uses the bottle to settle herself back to sleep. She also only sleeps 8 hours total a night and has 1-2 hours in naps during the day. Help would be amazing

Does she have a dummy? And does she cry or just whinge when she wakes up?

And don't worry too much about any guidelines of how many hours sleep they should be getting in total. Some need more, some need less.

I would say that's pretty normal for a 7 month old? My DD was either sleeping through or waking once at 7 months but loads of mums I know had babies that still woke 2-3x in the night.

What time are you putting her to bed? At 7 months their bedtime should be around 6.30/7pm. Don't know how you would go about doing it, but she also needs to be napping more in the day.

Sorry, not particularly helpful!

My nearly 9 month old wakes up for 2.5 hours on and off in the night 😫

Yep sounds normal sorry. The myth about babies (until you have your own) is that they sleep loads. Or they will sleep through (by which I mean 12 hours solid not 6/8/9hrs...) after a couple of months. These magical sleeping babies are not the majority ime. I found having lower expectations with my second baby really helped! It’s a waste of energy wondering when they will start to sleep through reliably. Mine were 2 yrs and 3yrs before they were pretty cast iron solid sleepers. Lots of good spells of solid sleep up till then, maybe starting from 12-18months but not reliable until 2 and 3. The good news is that you get used to it and it won’t be like this forever.

OP i went 10 years without sleeping a full night.

My DD was fine , my DS has always been a poor sleeper.

I work with a psychologist who told me it just happens that way sometimes ( his own son is a poor sleeper ).

Its about trying to find ways to cope with it as a family rather than worrying that youre doing something wrong .

My 8 month of wakes up every 2 hours!!What a fun game! Do I win a prize?

Sounds completely normal. My son was the same in that from birth, he napped for 20 minutes at a time once in the morning at once during the afternoon, and then woke every 2-3 hours during the night.

There is hope, though! He is now nearly 2.5, and most nights of the week (probably 4/7) sleeps from 8pm to 8am. I love those nights! Granted, he doesn’t nap at all during the day, and the other 3 nights a week he either refuses to sleep for hours past bedtime or wakes at between 1 & 3am and is awake for the rest of the day..... But I do get some lovely sleep some nights!

Good luck 💐

I'm sure this has filled you with optimism OP

If she just uses the bottle to get back to sleep then try a dummy instead. And if she is whinging rather than crying then don't jump straight up to get her, try leaving her for a bit to see if she gets herself back to sleep. Obviously go to her if she is crying. How does she get to sleep for naps/bedtime? Does she self settle or feed/cuddle to sleep?

I do remember reading that a baby who has decent daytime naps is more likely to sleep better at night time and I found this to be the case with both of mine. So maybe have a go at focusing on her getting good daytime naps and see if that makes a difference.