how much should ...

a 7 month old sleep?
We are not really in any sort or routine but Alex feeds every 4 hours or so and is up for however long he's happy, most of the time not over 2 hours. Generally he sleeps for about an hour sometimes he has a longer sleep in the afo early evening and then he goes down for the night in between 8 and 9. He still wakes during the night normally only once but sometimes a few more times. DH is wondering if he sleeps to much during the day and thats why he's not sleeping through and I am thinking there is another reason so just wondered how much sleep he should be having.

With Daniel, he sleeps 7.30pm-7.30am. During the day, he might have 2 hours in the morning and 2x45 sleeps during the day, otherwise 3x45 minute sleeps.

I would probably try and work on the late afternoon/early evening sleep - I *think* you probably want them awake from 5pm-ish to work toward an earlier sleep time. That said, I know that the 4-4.45 sleep is crucial for Daniel - he sometimes tries to go without but he's heinous if he does!

Sooo

Elizabeth - 12 overnight + 2 or so during the day
Daniel      - 12 overnight + 3 or so during the day
Caden     - 12ish overnight + 4 or more during the day ....

Thanks for all the input ladies.

Sheza I love the name you have chosen for you next arrival.

gee most days for us go something like this
awake 6-7 down for half an hour to an hour at around 9.30 up an hour later then up til around 1 prob later these days then if we're lucky a bigger sleep, 2ish hours, then up quick nap around 5 and then he got into the habit of going down at 8ish only waking at 4. Lately though he has been waking more at night but then he is getting teeth and has a bit of a cold. So on that note should I be putting Alex in more of routine? We don't mind that he only naps but I have started to wonder if I'm not doing him any favors by not having him in one. In saying that I do tend to overthink things so am prob just having another neurotic mother moment.

oops, i didn't make that clear did I? It was meant to be total hours.

Joel goes down about 6.15pm...up at about 7am.

Back down about 9.30am...sometimes for 2 hours, sometimes for 45 mins.

Back down again about 1 depending on how long he slept in the morning. If he had a big sleep in the morning he normally has about 1.5hrs in the afternoon, but if he had a little sleep in the morning hes down 2-3hrs. Normally up around 3-3.30 and then up until hes down for the night just after 6.

LOL I am the same way with chippies.
I think him being in his own room will help when it happens. Soph did not sleep through till we put her in her room....I thing every move and noise we made woke her up.

Sounds totally normal to me. Babies are the opposite of adults, the less they sleep during the day the harder it is to get them to sleep at night and the more likely they will wake continually because they are over tired. At 7 months Dominic was having 3 naps a day from 1 to 1.5 hours and in bed for the night by 6pm. He has never slept through the night, he is two on Wednesday and still doesn't sleep through.