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7 month old sleep disturbances

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CursesAndMagic · 18/02/2020 04:44

My 7 month old goes to sleep perfectly by self after a solid consistent bedtime routine. She has slept through from 6 weeks. By sleeping through I mean 12 hours. Sometimes If she has less milk and solid intake in day or is sick before bed I don’t mind giving her w feed when she wakes for one. The problem is occasionally she will wake up through the night and be awake for hours because she won’t keep still. Sometimes I can turn her on her side and she settles back to sleep and it’s fine but other times she will be awake rolling about pulling on the cot and then she won’t settle to sleep. I’ve tried holding her rocking her Ferber method which doesn’t work because she can self settle she just can’t seem to get her self back to sleep after 5-7 hours of sleep and then is up until she will fall back asleep. She was swaddled until 5 months & loved it and weaned from it fine but the PST month or so she can’t seem to keep still. Some nights she will & sleeps through 7-6 bottle then back sleep until 7:30. She has lots of tummy time in the day & play but at night once she’s got her block of 5/7 hours she has a few hours up. Or anything from 1-3 hours. I’m exhausted. My partner had her last night and swaddled her loosely after she woke at 4 after bottle & she slept until 8. She can roll but seems to not be able to stop. What can I do. I’m severely exhausted she went through a phase of refusing feeds and waking once for a feed settling straight back to sleep and I was ok with that.

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Russell19 · 18/02/2020 04:52

I'm confused with you saying she 'sleeps through'. Do you mean that she used to and this is a new thing?

CursesAndMagic · 18/02/2020 07:24

Yes

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Russell19 · 19/02/2020 06:04

It just sounds developmental.

If she's slept through since 6 weeks you are very lucky. Think of the mums who have 3 year olds who haven't ever slept through, think of the mums whose babies wake every 2 hours. That's exhausted.

I think this phase for her will pass.

dogmothertoanother · 19/02/2020 06:16

I have a 3.5 year old he wakes so much still 😬

Try a sleeping bag, like the gro bags ones but you can get them other places cheaper.

I think it's her working on crawling and it's not unusual to sleep in 2 chunks. Babies are programmed to conform to society's idea of how tot sleep. The being awake a couple of hours in the night is fine, you just need to go to bed when she does to get your sleep too.

I recommend the gentle sleep book.

dogmothertoanother · 19/02/2020 06:16

*arent programmes ( I'm tired ha )

MrsP2015 · 19/02/2020 06:32

Please remember this is normal for a baby not to always sleep through. 5-7 hours in 1 go is amazing and mine didn't do that til about 17 months- some I know even later!

Have you read about sleep regression in babies? I'm sure there's one around 6/7 months.

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