7 month old wakes twice a night for feeds

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So, my BF little boy is about 7.5 months old has gone from sleeping an 8 hour stretch at night, to only seeming to manage 4 hour stetches of sleep most nights.

Until about 6 months old, he was sleeping about 7.30pm to 7.30am with one feed starting between 3am and 4am.

There have been a few changes - first he started solid food, then he moved from bedside crib to cot, which took a few weeks for him to settle into. Then he was waking due to teething (first 2 teeth popped through a week ago). Finally, he has just got the hang of commando crawling this week, and is on the move a few hours per day.

Now he is going to bed around 7.30pm, but waking around midnight and 4.30am. He has a BIG breastfeed each time, about 25 minutes in all. He breastfeeds 4 times during the day (wake up, mid morning, mid afternoon, bedtime). He is also eating 3 meals a day.

Any thoughts? I wonder if he is just wanting comfort in the night, but those are really big feeds he has, it's not just a nibble then back to sleep. Normal for baby with lots of development going on? He used to cluster feed in the evenings but has stopped doing that since starting an evening meal - maybe try to get more milk down him in the evening?

Any advice gratefully appreciated, even if it's just that this is a normal regression!

Imo waking twice at night at that age sounds completely normal especially for a bf baby.

My now 14 month old did the same at 7 months and we just rode it out, breastfed him whenever he wanted it and never ignored his cries. Fed to sleep loads (still do apart from his a.m. nap as we are slowly starting to phase that out now). He started sleeping through at around 10 months, only once every so often but by a year it became the norm.

My advice would be just to keep responding to the baby's needs and accept that babies wake at night. Good luck

Normal.

@firstimemamma @37Thisismyusernamefornow ah okay, thank you! He does do an 8 hour stretch once or twice a week, so I wondered if I should be doing something to help him do that more... But he is a very active boy, 65th percentile, maybe he just does need the calories from the night milk.

I bet you're doing a great job. I'm crap on broken sleep so well done you!

I think the thing to remember is every baby/child/adult is different. Nobody sleeps all night long. Some people get up for the loo, some people have a read, some people turn over and go straight back to sleep...but we all do wake at some point.

Sounds like you are doing a great job and looking out for baby's que's/needs. don't put too much pressure on yourself - babies also change their patterns regularly too. Sleep regression, growth spurts etc all kick in too.