Do you wake a 7 month old

[Pickle2021]

Me and my friend are having this debate.

I think you should let a 7 month old sleep as long as they want whereas she doesn't think you should.

Was kind of interested what everyone else does?

I’ve got a 7-month old, and I would never, ever deliberately wake her up, but then I spend most of my day and night trying to get her to sleep in the first place!!

What is your friend’s reasoning for waking? Is this for naps, or just the first morning wake-up?

Why the fuck would you wake a sleeping baby unless it was essential to do so?

Does your friend have a child? Waking a sleeping child without good reason is madness.

Depends… if you needed to be somewhere at a certain time, then yes.

If it’s just because you think the nap has gone on for too long, then no definitely not.

It's for naps. Yh she has two kids. She's always wakes her lo up when they were younger and said I should do the same 😂

She didn't give a reason.

I was like nope. My LO is an overtired mess if I wake her when it's not naturally for her x

Oh if I needed to be somewhere then yh I would wake her up 🤷🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️ but I'm in the camp if I'm half hour late to meet a friend or family meh 🤷🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️ it happens 😂

Yes I wake dc after both daytime naps to ensure a nice early bedtime routine. (Limit 1.30 AM nap and 2hr PM nap) The only time I wouldn't wake would be for teething/ illness when I think they need a bit longer.

My mum's horrified I do it but both dc are great sleepers.

@thesplashing oh to have the luxury of a 2 hour nap!!

@canyoutoleratethis

It's anything from 30 mins to 2hours but I appreciate it's still a luxury to be cherished!

I never woke mine from naps.
She never napped long enough 🤣

Yes always as I engineered their day sleep to get them sleeping overnight as quickly as possible. Different strokes!

@canyoutoleratethis 😂 totally this. Most I usually get is 1.5 hours x

@LapinR0se well aren’t you the smug one. Go on then, how did you ‘engineer’ a baby…. (instead of maybe just got lucky?)

I mean I engineered their naps and spent all my time obsessing about them. So I put them to sleep at specific times and woke them at specific times. One slept through at 10 weeks and the other not until 8 months

It would depend on why but I would never say never.

@LapinR0se I can definitely second spending all my time obsessing about them!! But as your two LO’s clearly illustrate, there’s actually only so much you can do - they’ll all get there in their own time, and not a minute before (unfortunately!!)

Haha Im obsessive with them too! But I let her sleep as much as she wants and work at out the naps from there x

Ha this was what confused me with Gina Ford.

‘Put baby down at 9am. Wake at 945.’

Reality, put baby down at 9am, still desperately trying to sleep at 955, baby suddenly falls asleep mid feed, then wakes at 1020. You throw the book in the bin

Is that what gina Ford says? Wake at 945?? I never looked at her sleep routine thing

I know a few people who do. They're obsessed with instilling routines. Mostly, I've noticed they spend a good proportion of their time stressing about the routine, slavishly adhering to it, planning their lives round it and then the baby naturally sleeps through around the same time as the babies of friends who just went with the flow.

Doesn't matter really I suppose. You have your priorities and for various reasons.

I’d have had to get mine to sleep 😴 in the first place 😬😬

Yes I used to wake mine up - they would nap in the morning 45 mins then at lunch 2 hrs. If they slept longer then they wouldn't go to bed in the evening.

Waking them up would be gentle stroke of the hand or something. They got used to nap times & usually stirred.

I teach and was back in work when DD was 5 months & DS was 6 months. I wouldn't have coped with my job if they hadn't slept at night so it was important to me to get them into routine.

Most babies at nursery or childminder nap same time as each other so I can't see the problem.

pickle2021 yes I did Gina Ford routine. It's not popular on here. However it worked for me.

I did not like idea of Gina Ford initially but a few weeks of chaos later, the routine she stated sounded a dream so I adopted her routine and never looked back for my first 2, but 3rd child was not so keen on a routine and also had to fit around the schedules of the other 2.

I would have woken mine if we needed to be somewhere. If she was properly tired then she’d fall back to sleep in the buggy/car. I wouldn’t be half an hour late if I’d arranged to meet someone.

@converseandjeans whatever works for you is the main thing.

@robinpenguins I agree to an extent but my LO don't sleep on the go once started her nap stationary and even if on the go nap which I work hard to get it's 45 minutes only 😂 which I can't understand as I'm always out with her x