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7.5 month old is overtired and refuses

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Stu1989 · 28/01/2019 13:51

Hi everyone, this is my first post on here so apologies if this topic has been duplicated Blush

My Daughter will be 8 months on February 8thh_ and my partner and I are in a tough situation with regards to baby's sleep.

She's our first child, so it's likely that we may have done things we shouldn't have, such as baby falling asleep during feeds/cuddling to sleep/feeding at night when not necessary etc.

As a bit of context, we are in the middle of purchasing our own home but we currently live with my partner's Mum, Brother, dog and two cats! Essentially we are forced to spend all day/night in our bedroom.

I work and my partner is still on maternity leave. She goes for 1 or 2 walks a day, has three "main" feed with mushed up foods, has a milk feed 1-2 hours after and some finger food in between. However, napping seems to be a non-entity. A typical day consists of:

7:30amm_: Baby wakes up
9amm_: Porridge
10:30amm_: Milk feed (5 oz)
Usually a snack (i.e. finger food) will be had between this and dinner followed by a 30-60 minute walk (this is where a nap takes place)
1pmm_: Dinner (e.g. tuna/avocado mush) followed by a finger of unbuttered toast
2:30pmm_: Milk feed (5 oz)
5pmm_: Tea (i.e. spag bol/cottage pie pouches) followed by a pudding pouch
6:15pmm_: Bath
6:30-6:45pmm_: Milk feed (5 oz)
7pmm_: Bed

Baby will then wake up on the dot at 10pmm for what started out as a dream feed but is now standard feed (6 oz). After that it is anyone’s guess as to when she will wake up. Sometimes it’s 5amm, sometimes it’s 3.30amm_.

My partner will feed her and then she settles back off until taking at 7:30amm as above. If we don’t give her the 10pmm feed she will wake up screaming at 12amm or 1amm guaranteed.

She’s a really light sleeper as well (like me), to the point where even me changing positions in bed will make her moan out and almost wake her up.

We try to put her down for naps throughout the day, trying at similar times each day, but she is too alert/nosey and fights it to the point of screaming.

In case you were wondering - yes, she is still in our room with us due to our current living situation. My ultimate hope is that once we move – within a month or two – she’ll have her own room and we can start associating that space with sleep whilst playing/feeding etc. in other areas of the house.

Any thoughts/tips/advice welcomed.

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HerSymphonyAndSong · 28/01/2019 18:45

Nighttime sounds fine to me, I have to admit. During the day might she want a nap a bit earlier? My son is 8mo and he wakes up 6.30-7am and wants to sleep at 9am for about an hour. This then means we have the rest of the morning to go out and do things before having lunch and another nap early afternoon. Babies are all different so your baby may just not want to sleep earlier, but I would try giving breakfast earlier, eg 8am, and seeing if she will sleep a bit earlier. If she does, then she might have more time to sleep again in the afternoon if she wants to

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