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What is wrong with my 7month olds sleep!!!!! HELP

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Vialarooski · 21/04/2019 01:04

Up until just over a week ago, My 7month old was such a good sleeper. She's go down no trouble, wake up once maybe twice through the night but would go straight back down after 20mins of feed. And then for about 10 days she was sleeping 7pm - 5am which was amazing! And then all of a sudden it stopped. And now she is just a nightmare. Fighting sleep, screams hysterically when I put her down for a nap or bedtime. She just wants to constantly be on me. She'll eventually go down for a few hours (usually around 7pm - 10pm) and then wakes up crying, which then turns to screaming if we leave her too long.
She'll settle for a feed and fall asleep but the minute she is moved into her cot she screams again. This will go on for hours and I'm starting to really feel low.
I'm so tired. I feel like nothing is working and I just want to give up. I'm emotional, I'm angry, annoyed, upset, resentful. I love her to the end of the world but when it gets to evening time I'm filled with dread and fear.
My husband tries but it useless and makes the whole thing worse if he tries to help.

What is going on? Will it ever end? I've tried everything! Controlled crying, soothing music, white noise, feeding to sleep, co sleeping, sleeping on her nursery floor, comforting her in her cot...the only thing that works is if she can sleep on me. I can't cope much longer. I feel like I'm gonna break down 😩

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Bubble2016 · 22/04/2019 02:25

Hi op, I feel your pain. I’ve had similar weeks with my DD. She’s now nearly 9months, we’ve had a run of good sleeping and then a few weeks of rubbish nights. I think a lot has to do with developmental leaps, sitting, crawling, teething etc. I’m awake with her now, full of cold and teething. It won’t last forever, babies are constantly going through phases. The way I look at it ; they have so much going on in their little heads, massive changes in their abilities etc, I know I find it hard to sleep when I have a lot to think about. I know it’s hard but it won’t last forever, we all learn to sleep soon enough. If your struggling leave her safe in her cot for a few minutes and take a breather. I know it’s awful hearing them cry but a few minutes of crying won’t hurt her. Good luck x

darceybussell · 22/04/2019 05:13

How long has it been going on? Could it be her teeth? We had a massive setback at just over 6 months and couldn't understand it, and that turned out to be teething. It did subside eventually.

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