Sleep Issues With a 7.5 Month Old

For the last couple of weeks Samara has started waking every 2-3 hours. I know I shouldn't as she is old enough to sleep through but I feed her back to sleep. Sometimes it's only a few minutes and sometimes it's around a 15 minute feed. She has only ever slept through about three times. She is on 3 solids a day also. She only has one sleep a day in the morning for around an hour and a half.

Any ideas on how we can break this habit as I am exhuasted and I have no idea what to do as Zac has slept through from 8 weeks.

Just realised I've put this in the wrong place - I blame it on sleep deprivation!

Edited by Kim

My 7.5 month old wakes at 2 to three times a night and has never slept right through so I feel your pain.

I usually pop him in my bed from his first wake and that gets us through - I have heard many people say the same thing around this age going from sleeping to waking again.

Sorry I couldn't be more help.

Good work Mum2Ella. I was about to suggest the same thing.

Michaela was 10 months and had only ever slept through twice, was fed to sleep most nights but often took hours to go to sleep and was waking several times for feeds every night. I was working full time and was exhausted so I decided enough was enough. Like Mum2Ella I couldn't CIO or CC so I decided to set some bedtime rules:

1st no feed to sleeps or dummy's
2nd no rocking or cuddling to sleep
3rd she had to fall asleep in her own cot

I would do her bedtime routine, put her in her cot and the sit next to her, patting her but not making any noise nor eye contact. 1st night took a long time to get her to sleep, second night was better and it continued improving until all I did was put her down and leave the room while she self settled. Better than that within 3 nights she was sleeping through and apart from the odd occasion (when she's sick or teething) we haven't looked back.

Edited by MrsMojo

If you think that she is hungry maybe you could feed her for a set time or take her off the breast when she starts to get drowsy, then try patting, shhh etc
If she has started crawling and is practicing in her sleep then it may possibly be smething that she will stop in time. How much time? Not sure

Kim, I know what you are going through! Lachie has slept through since about 9 weeks but over the last couple of weeks he has been waking 1 or 2 times a night, it has been a shock to the system. I try not to feed him but if he takes a while to settle I will, mainly so I can go back to bed (I know I probably shouldn't). I will only feed him once. Usually when I go in he is also on his knees and half asleep, I thnink he is practising in his sleep! I am praying that he settles down again soon. He also used to go down awake with no problem at night but now sometimes he chats, winges for up to an hour. I have just cut his 3:30 sleep so it will be interestng to see if that helps.
If you find a solution let me know!

The best discovery we ever made with Daniel was that he needed to go to bed earlier so we made small changes to his routine so that he could.

We also found that while a safety sleep didn't work for us for months. We pulled it out recently to use so that he would stay put and stay asleep longer. He was rolling around his cot and keeping himself awake rather than waking up and going back to sleep quickly.

Edited by kebakat

We didn't use it on Daniel til about that age, maybe a little after even. At first we made sure it was snuggly done up, now it's pretty loose.. just enough so that he does a wriggle and realises he's strapped in and goes to sleep.

You can always resell it if it doesn't work. The resale value was pretty high when I checked on TM a few months ago

I used to use a safe T sleep for Ella- but she started rolling onto her tummy in it and couldn't roll back, so I stopped using it. She does crawl all over her cot and stands up and jumps up and down but I haven't found that it stops her going to sleep...if she starts being silly I just leave her to it and she calms down pretty quickly. Same thing in the middle of the night...if she stands up and starts crying I don't give her any extra attention, I just sit beside her going shhhhh and she just lies down by herself. Does mean she ends up in pretty weird positions in her cot

That's awesome you got her down at that hour if you have never had success before. Daniel goes to bed around 6:30... sometimes even 6 if he's had a crap day! I hope it helps!