Sleep help needed! 7m old still only doing 2 hour stints!

[bubbaba]

Hi All

Hoping someone will have the magic answer to make my baby sleep longer.
My baby is 7 months and still not sleeping for longer than 2 hours. I'm pretty tired but trying to keep my head held high.
I'm BF and always have been, wouldn't take a bottle and tried several brands so gave up with trying to substitute a feed. Weaning now but that hasn't made any difference to sleep pattern.
What else can I try? I can't believe I've gone 7 months with no more than 2 hours consecutive sleep. Even that might be pushing it as the 2 hour countdown seems to start from the moment she wakes, not from the moment she falls asleep again.
I have to feed those two hours, it's not just a rock or tuck in and back to sleep again.
Anyone got any magic tips I could try??
It's tough going!

Is baby falling asleep feeding?

Mine first did this and was awful sleeper. They fall asleep on you and wake up and your not there. Someone likened it to us falling asleep in our bed and waking in kitchen!

If you are bf to sleep things probably only will improve when your child falls asleep another way. Not easy! There’s a thread called ‘what worked for us’ which is all about breaking feeding to sleep cycle with mounting using CC or CIO

Yeah falls asleep BF at bed time and during the night. Now day time naps I'm needing to rock him to sleep. I think you are probably right that this is the issue.

I've tried a hour ago to get a nap in where I put baby down before nodding off but it's like they rally round and find new energy to cry. He was nearly asleep when I put him down but cried his eyes out when I put him down and gets so worked up. I'm reluctant to leave now he's in the cot as the cot bars are pushed against and he gets stuck! Back in the Moses basket, we didn't have this issue and he would self soothe to sleep.
I'm looking up the post you mentioned and read a few other ones. Such a big issue when you're in the midst of it :-(.

It’s so tough! My first didn’t start sleeping through until he was 2 (when we night weaned). We’d tried various gentle methods but it just wasn’t for him. We mainly co-slept to manage - it was fine but I know it’s not for everyone.