7 month old still not sleeping!

[Cj17]

Posted a while ago about baby not sleeping during the night and still hasn’t got any better!

My dd is nearly 7 months and still isn’t sleeping through. I’m lucky if I can get a solid 2 hour sleep. She slept through from 2.5 months - 4.5 months 9pm - 8am but ever since probably around the 5 month mark she’s been an utter pain in the ar*e.

She naps twice in the day for 2 hours after an awake time of 2/2.5 hours. Bath usually between 6.30/7pm and I try to put her down. Sometimes she goes off, sometimes she’s still up at 9pm and then like I said, wakes up every couple hours.

She sleeps with a dummy and perhaps when she wakes she panics that she hasn’t got it. Usually pop it back in and she drifts back off. At the moment she’s waking up and I’m now feeding her 1/2 times a night where as she cut the night feeds out. Don’t get me wrong I don’t mind waking up 1/2 times a night and for a feed or something but she’s waking me up around 8 times!!

She’s now rolling everywhere during the day and very close to crawling. So equally she now rolls in her cot bed. She can roll back to front and front to back but she cries when she rolls on her front and then cries when I roll her back - this is on repeat 45 mins later. I need some sleep!!!

Is there any sleeping aids? (Don’t shoot me!! I know an empty bed is a safe bed!!!) just curious to see if there is an angled ‘wedge type thing’ to put either side of the cot. Not so she can smother her face in hence an angled one so if she tried to roll it’ll just push her back? Or any other advice to get a better sleep would be perfect.

I know routine routine routine but nothing seems to work even if I do keep to a routine. Quiet night, no sleep, busy night, no sleep. She’s a happy baby thankfully as I think if she woke up grumpy I definitely would be pulling my hair out.

She sleeps with PJ’s/baby grow on under a grobag/sleeping bag and we’ve now got heating on so room is nice a warm. But saying that, room too cold, room too hot or room just right still doesn’t seem to have an effect on her!! Clearly a night owl but mummy needs sleep!!

shes still in our room as to be honest, she’s waking so many times I want to cry thinking of having to physically get up and go into a different room 8 times a night haha. Maybe being our room is the problem?

Saw you had no response - a long while ago but ds I tried everything and was still waking every 2 hours at 6 months . Even when moved to seperate room a few months later. We moved him back and eventually started co sleeping as I couldn't cope and I got more sleep. Can't remember when he slept through probably over 1 and that was the same for many of my friends babies. It's just having a baby I'm afraid don't beat yourself up and find a way to cope best you can.

Where have you got the idea from that she should be sleeping through the night at 7 months?

Some babies do, many don't until they are much much older (sorry!) but neither is wrong or unusual.

When she wakes up do you go to her immediately? she's at an age now where if you leave it a minute or two she might go back to sleep herself after a bit of a whinge if you leave her to it?

@Andcake - I think it may be the case of co-sleeping especially if we’ve had a bad night before hand maybe. Typically on posting this she gave me a solid 5 hour sleep the past 2 nights - maybe she can read the post I wrote and thought she had better start sleeping? Haha!!

@pastabest - I don’t expect her to sleep a solid 10 hours. I actually feel safer when she wakes a couple of times. A couple fine, 8-9 times, no. Maybe I have worded it incorrect of ‘sleeping through’. Would just like to see whether anyone had any solutions to the rolling and crying every other hour. My friends babies that were born in the same month or may have been very lucky and they have slept from day one and still are now. Yes, others I know still don’t sleep at 2. Just going from a baby that slept from 9pm - 8am to over the last couple months not really sleeping at all and lucky enough to get 2.5/3 hours solid sleep is a killer lol.

I have started to leave her unless she really cries. I don’t believe in the crying out method (works for some but I just don’t have the heart for it) but do believe in letting her whinge for a while until it results in crying. Will keep trying to ignore her when she wakes and prey she settles herself😂.

Good luck with it OP. Sleep deprivation is the worst. My son went through an awful time when he first learned to talk waking up for hours at 2 am wanting to chat!!!

Sounds like an early start to the 8-10 month sleep regression. It will pass, it's developmental