7 month old sleep problems

[Josie1999]

i am currently very very tired so i am sorry if i make mistakes while typing. i am very confused on my little ones sleep habits. During the day my little one sleeps between 2 to 3.5 hours total (2 naps). he does scream a little during his sleep but for the most part sleeps through those naps. he eats 2 solid meals (oatmeal and then veggies) he drinks milk every 4 hours around 6 ozs each bottle.

at night is where it gets confusing, i did wean him off the pacifier a month ago as he was waking up 10 times a night when he lost it. So night time around 8pm he gets his last bottle that sometimes he doesn't even want to drink and i put him down lets say 8:30, he sleeps for 45 mins and then i swear is up every 60 mins. i try feeding him and he doesn't want it unless it is around 1 or 2am. he is ok if i am walking and holding him but doesn't want me to be sitting. he also looks uncomfortable at night in the crib and grunts and or screams alot and moves alot.

i am at my wits end. my other little boy was sleeping at night by 7 months just waking up at 3am to drink and back to sleep.

i guess i am wondering what feeding schedule are you on during the day that works for a 7 month old to sttn? do you change their diaper during the night? if it is teething what can you give a baby? i doubt its teething every night though right?

 

[Diannam]

Sleep right now for my 7 month old is hit and miss. Nowhere near as bad as yours though and he often wakes once for a feed then goes back to sleep. (Had to start my day at 4pm once last week though)

He occasionally wakes a couple times now where he didn't before. He eats 5-6 ounces every 2-4 hours. He has a breakfast. It's only a couple of spoons of pureed carrots only, wish it were more. He has dinner of rice Cereal, a fair amount, 1.5 hours before bed as of the past few days. I feel like it has helped. We also added a pre-bedtime bath which I feel has helped as well.

I do one diaper change. Most nights our bedtime ritual starts at 6:40 and he is sleeping soon after 7. He usually wakes once anywhere between 2:30am and 4:30.

 

[jessmke]

My LO is 6 1/2 months old and is waking every 45-60 min at night so I can feel your pain! She is teething badly which I think is what is causing the night wakings for us. I have been giving her Tylenol for the last few nights to relive the pain and help her sleep.

Is your LO learning to roll/crawl/pull to standing? My LO has been doing all three of these at once which also affects her sleep. As soon as she wakes even slightly she pushes up onto all fours and rocks or rolls over and wakes herself up or pushes herself up into sitting. It helps to have her in a sleep sac because it restricts her ability to move a little bit. It's driving me crazy because she has been able to roll both directions since she was 12 weeks but wasn't all that interested in doing it. Now suddenly rolling is all she wants to do and it is making sleep difficult.

Have you tried putting your LO to bed earlier? 8:30 is a fairly late bedtime for a 7 month old, he may be overtired which can cause frequent night wakings.

 

[Josie1999]

i would love to start earlier bedtime but he takes 2 naps one at 12 and then he takes one at 4:30 until 530 or 6. last night he slept alittle better. he woke up once for a bottle but he woke up 3 times himself yelping and stirring around. i did not pick him up but he is such a loud yelper that i worry he will wake up his brother.

 

[MemmaJ]

What time does he wake in the morning? I think maybe 12 is very late in the day for a first nap, sounds like he may be overtired? That can cause terrible problems for night sleeping.
My 7 month old wakes around 6.30 and has his first nap at 8.30 (or whenever is 2 hours after he woke), and has 3 naps a day in total (8.30, 11.30/12 and 3.30/4) and then goes to bed aeound 2 hours after he wakes from his last nap (usually around 6.30/7.00pm). He doesn't have any feeds in the night and sleeps through, apart from the occasional wake-up for his dummy (I dream of the day he can put it back in himself!).

 

[Twag]

My 7 month old DD is still waking in the night this is her sleep/food routine

5/6am feed and up for the day (I go to work) she will nap for 30mins @ 7.30am (car journey) and then has another feed (F) and breakfast at 9am
She will then play and have a feed (BF) and lunch puree etc at 12pm and then sleep from 12.30/1pm until 2.30/3pm she will then have some more milk when she wakes
plays until 4.30/5 when she will have some more milk and dinner then she will nap until I pick her up at 6.30pm

Get home she will have a feed (mainly for comfort this time) whilst we are doing bedtime routine story with my DS and she will then fall asleep 7.30pm ish

She will have 6oz of formula at 10pm (my hopes that she will sleep longer at night doesn't seem to work tho) and sometimes this is a dream feed

She will then wake like clockwork at 12.40am and then again roughly 3 hours later - both for feed

It is so odd as my DS slept through from 6 months

She will find her groove I am sure it is better than the every 2 hours she was doing at least

 

[jessmke]

i would love to start earlier bedtime but he takes 2 naps one at 12 and then he takes one at 4:30 until 530 or 6. last night he slept alittle better. he woke up once for a bottle but he woke up 3 times himself yelping and stirring around. i did not pick him up but he is such a loud yelper that i worry he will wake up his brother.

A first nap at 12 is pretty late in the day. My 6 1/2 month old has her first nap around 9/9:30 am (she wakes around 7/7:30am). If I were you I would wake him from his second nap by 5 pm at the latest, then put him to bed at 7/7:30 pm. Then he will wake earlier in the morning and everything will shift earlier. It might make a couple of days for him to get used to the new schedule.

 

[Josie1999]

i will try anything! on average are you having your 7 month old have 3 naps during the day and for how long are the naps..

 

[Left wonderin]

The first nap maybe too late and baby overtired setting up for poor sleep . Maybe try moving nap times around with the latest wake up time 3 hours prior to bedtime .

 

[jessmke]

i will try anything! on average are you having your 7 month old have 3 naps during the day and for how long are the naps..

My 6 1/2 month old has 2 or 3 naps a day depending on how long she naps for. Ideally she will have two 1 1/2 hr naps a day, but if one or both of her naps are shorter than an hour she ends up needing a 30-45 min nap later in the day.

 

[MemmaJ]

I read somewhere that most babies around this age can generally only comfortably manage 2 hours of 'awake time'. My baby definitely fits this rule and starts to become really whingey after 2 hours!

Try using that as a starting point - so put him down for a nap 2 hours after he wakes in the morning. What time does he usually wake?
And then when he wakes from that nap, 2 hours again after that.

This is what we do, and it generally works out that he has 3 naps a day of around an hour each.

 

[Twag]

My 7 month old also fits into the 2 hour awake thing any longer & she is cranky & overtired so fights sleep

 

[lau86]

Agree my dd needs to nap around 2 hours after waking. She woke at 8.30 today and has not long gone down so pretty much bang on! She's a nightmare if she misses it!