7 month old sleeps 2 hrs and wakes up at night

[JingleJangle131]

Hi there,

Am new to the site so apologies for not using the right acronym's. My little girl is 7 months old and has always been a really good night time sleeper (although always been a cat napper during the day). From about 3 month's she was sleeping 7-10 hours. However, she recently faced her first tummy bug and virus and was out of action for 2 weeks, we are onto week 3 and she is much better but she's got into this routine of waking every 2 hours at night. It's the total opposite to what she has been and honestly I'm shattered. I have no help as such so I am literally caffeined up all the time to help me keep going. Have tried to keep up with her night time routine, bath, book, food and milk but nothing seems to work. She falls asleep at her normal time 6-7pm but it won't last. I can't do the controlled crying thing, not for me but I wondered if anyone had any practical advice, all will be appreciated .

Thank you

I’m a one trick pony when it comes to sleep advice - cosleep.

What she is doing is very developmental normal but exhausting.

8 month sleep regression. Change of sleep cycle length. Peak separation anxiety. Teething and weaning. Getting ready to crawl/stand/walk. Lots of internal disruption.

Not just common, completely normal (there are several posts on this site a day about it). You just need to find a way of riding it out. Does cosleeping help?

Thanks for your comments. I can see how the sleep regression thing may be kicking in- shes started crawling (although backwards!). She's still not sleeping for long stretches I am hoping that she gets over this soon. Problem is the tummy bug seems to have lingered a little and I think her reflux is also kicking in. She literally wakes up from her sleep because of the reflux cough.
We've tried co-sleeping with varied success, she calms down and sleeps if I hold her which I do, as frankly, we both need to sleep.

Thanks all

Cosleeping is amazing especially if you go back to work as you get time to snuggle. DD happily went into her own room at 20 months and within a month settled into sleeping by herself.