7 month old naps and sleep

[Liv316]

Hi everyone,

Just wondering if anyone can give me some words of encouragement that one day my baby will sleep?!

Both naps, bedtime and night time sleep are to pot at the minute. Still breastfeeding and feeling like it’s making him struggle with his sleep but don’t know how to change it without stopping breastfeeding which I don’t want to do.

Thanks in advance

Started a thread on literally just this a couple of days ago. It is an absolute nightmare, isn't it! We had decided to try a new approach to gentle sleep training starting this Friday but as her sleep has got more cataclysmic by the day I'm not sure if that means we should plough on and try to change things asap or grit our teeth and try to weather this particularly rough patch before changing anything. Feel like we're back in the newborn days, with only the easiest possible dinners on the menu and I'm tempted to go to bed as soon as she does for the first time since we started putting her down before our dinner time. Hopefully it's a phase, and a short-lived one at that!?

@Etherealhedgehog oh hopefully, it is so hard! We’ve had bad sleep here for months now so I was really hoping it would start to get better but here we are!

Do you feed to sleep?

Yeah, we're in the same position - never got out of the four month sleep regression (which actually started at 3.5 months) but I find I'm constantly redefining what I consider to be bad sleep, and the last couple of weeks are definitely the worst yet

@Russell19 I try not to but sometimes when I take him off he’ll cry and then not settle so I end up giving in and just feeding him to sleep. But now he’s started waking up if I put him down so really trying not to now. Whenever he wakes at night I am putting him back down awake so he is aware

I know its so easy to feed to sleep and I did it too but the time I stopped feeding to sleep and night weaned (at 12 months) was when the sleep improved.

@Russell19 how did you get to settle
Without feeding? When I don’t feed her gets so worked up and cries for ages

I used little ones app. Basically they use a method called feed to soothe where you feed until they are drowsy but not asleep then put them down in the cot drowsy. If they don't settle you repeat the process over and over until they settle. Aim is that they'll get more and more used to self settling. You don't even need to leave crying or anything, you can go straight into them or wait 2/3 minutes, whatever you are comfortable with.