Sleeping through HELP

[newmummytonoah2016]

Hi

My 7 month old has slept through the night about twice since she arrived and I think I'm at my brink with it all now 😴. She's been through many phases of night waking and now we seem to be in one where she wakes and seems pretty alert when she does wake up.

She has three meals a day along side any bottles she wants, generally has an hour or longer nap in a morning and then one in the afternoon (afternoon one she is fighting lots at the moment). Then depending on what time she wakes up after her last nap she goes to bed around 630/7. Usually settles down well but wakes up at least once before we've gone to bed (sometimes 11/12) and then can range anywhere in the night. But at the moment take tonight for example, woke up at 11ish before my husband had come up had bottle and gone back down. Has just woke up for me about quarter to 4 and has only just gone down at half past 4 with some rocking and gentle lullaby music. I'm so tired and getting frustrated as times going on, we've got a 2 year old so it makes life a lot harder to deal with the lack of sleep.

If anyone has any tips on how to help the sleeping through or change to her daily routine I'm all ears.

Oh and she's definitely teething right now! Which is throwing a lot to pot (i.e naps) but she's not been teething for 7 months so don't think I can blame that on her generally not sleeping through.

Thanks in advance!

I'm really sorry to say this but it sounds pretty normal (and not too bad!) for a baby so young. Only 16% of babies actually sleep through the night with no wake ups up until about a year.

I really sympathise with you, my 10 month old has been a nightmare sleeper waking every 45mins for the first 7 months of his life then every 1 and 1/2-2 hrs now at 10 months we're at 1-3 wake ups per night and I'm ecstatic.

Rest as much as you can and ask your partner to share the wake ups at weekends and make sure you get a lie in over the weekend is my only advice.

I think that sounds pretty good for 7 months too. My 5.5 month old wakes anything from 4-10 times a night! She was up from 11-12 and now from 4 til now, with 3 other quick wakes between.

That's good! That's what babies do.

I would cut back on the morning nap, ds only 12 weeks but has 45 min morning nap. How long is the lunchtime nap?

Agree with PP that this sounds normal and actually pretty good for a 7 month old. Everything is a phase and it will get better though!

That's so refreshing to hear you all say that's normal! I've got numerous people around me with younger babies that are sleeping through! So it just doesn't help with how you feel about your own does it. My little boy was a good sleeper so my little girl is a total shock not sleeping properly yet.

Her morning nap is anywhere from 45 mins to 1hr30 so it's all varied.

So nice to hear I'm not alone! Thank you for your replies xx

Don't believe them lol!!! It's amazing what people class as sleeping through.... one of my friends said oh my baby goes 7-7 I said wow that's great (I'd had approx 1 hr sleep that night) and she then said well I had to get up 3 times and put her dummy back in and resettle her.... but that doesn't count right lol!!!

No that definitely doesn't count in my eyes either!! Haha. It's so refreshing to hear I'm not alone, properly felt swamped in people who's baby was sleeping through the night. Nice to hear it can be the norm not to be! We've definitely had some tougher times than we are having now and they passed.. It's hard to remember they pass when you are living them isn't it!

I've just suffered through the 4 month regression, could your baby be having the 8 month one early? I'm not sure if they can be that early, just a thought.

We were up for hours in the night, I'm knackered! I think she's ill though as she is not usually awake for that long when she wakes.

Good luck for everyone tonight!

A floor bed has been my saving grace, from every 45mins to 1-3 wake ups per night!!

I have just posted a thread about sleep too! I would be chuffed if my DD would sleep like that!
Hope it gets easier for you. Some people seem to have babies that sleep through from 8 weeks (I've never met one in person! ) so it's good to know you are not alone.

DD started sleeping through about 2.5 yrs but it’s not consistent. It is developmental normal to need a parent durring the night up to the age of 7.

I wondered if it was a regression but she's too up and down quite regular for it to be I think. Hearing some of your other stories seems I don't have it so bad, but it feels never ending when your living it.
She used to only wake once when she was a newborn, I thought I had another good sleeper! But no such luck. She takes some settling back off sometimes in the night which I find the most frustrating, used to be bottle and back down but sometimes she wakes and is so alert.

Fingers crossed we all get a tad more sleep tonight! Probably should be asleep now but constantly stuck in the cycle of should be sleeping/craving my own time without the miniatures!