7 month old and Bedtime waking!

[Crumpets12]

Hello, I’ll try and include as much information as possible.

Naps: twice a day, sleeps beautifully for naps- over an hour with no problems. Goes to sleep still awake but quite drowsy (we sing 1 or 2 songs then she will indicate she can’t get comfy and when we put her in her bed she will fall asleep by herself)

Bedtime: completely different story, we try to do a longer bedtime routine including reading stories or having a bath. She’s goes down to bed but she wakes up roughly 30 minutes after, then wakes in 5-20 minute intervals after that until either we go to bed or we give up and she comes downstairs with us where she will sleep on one of us.

She is mostly breast-fed. We co- sleep at night as she was a very sicky baby and it just became habit so I don’t know if that’s created a problem at bedtime because she just wants all of us in bed at bedtime. I have no idea!

Any advice would very much appreciated! Thank you!

She's possibly over tired by bedtime, if only having two naps of 1h ish. Light sleeping and restlessness (resulting in waking easily) is often a sign that baby is over tired.

I'd add in a third nap, with 2h awake windows. Usually babies move to 2 nap days once getting 3-4h of daytime sleep over those two naps. Until then, shorter but more frequent naps are needed.

Thank you so much for your reply. I feel like I’ve tried everything and I’m at my wits end! I reckon she has a total of 3 hours. We were on 3 naps but we reduced it down as she was sleeping for longer and longer and that would push her bedtime so far back that she was going to bed at like 10pm. But that was with longer awake windows. Will give it a try and see if that helps! Thank you!