7 mth old sleeping at night

eden is about the same age and she sleeps thru most nights but then has done almost since she came home. she will on occasion wake up about 3/4 am tho and last night at 3 and 4...

have you tried giving him a top up feed about 10/11pm before you go to bed?

Am I putting him to bed too early?

Daniel did this until a year old pretty much. They decide to sleep through when they are ready, that's what I came to accept anyway. It didn't seem to matter what we did or tried he would wake once during the night and then slowly started sleeping through on the odd ocassion and slowly it became more frequent but it didn't start til around 11 months.

I don't think that's an early bedtime, I'd say that's just right.

you poor thing... no he is perfectly normal. My three year old even now doesnt always sleep through the night.

i put eden to bed about 7.30...    she normally wakes from a nap and has a boobie feed at 6, dinner with us at 6.30 and then a bath with the boys and then bed. and sometimes she will sleep till 6 or 7 other times she wakes at 3 and sometimes she will wake at 11pm.

Chloe has only just started sleeping through the night in the last couple of weeks... so from about 7 and a half months. She would occasionally do it before then but not often. She goes to bed between 6.30 and 7pm and sleeps right through until 7am, for the last 2 weeks!! Long may it continue!! We didn't do anything differently... Although she knows at night if she wakes up, she doesn't get out of bed, only gets given her dummy again until she goes back to sleep.

i find that if eden wakes at that time of morning it is quicker to just feed her. i remember thinking once, "oh i'll give her a cuddle and a re tuck in", but 30 mins later when she started sucking on my cheek i gave in and fed her. now i'm out again within 10 mins.

2bmumof3 wrote: don't you just feel like throttling those mums who have sleeping babies, lol

their day will come!!!!!

Hi Nicci

My little boy is 8 months old and has slept through the night once ... a long, long time ago! I am currently trying to improve his sleeping using suggestions from the 'No Cry Sleep Solution'. It is not a quick fix by any means. We have been doing this for just over three weeks now and are definitely seeing some improvement. He has gone from waking up 3-4 times a night for a full feed to waking up just once the last two nights, having a very brief feed before being returned to his cot where he is self-settling.

I have returned to my old ways a couple of times (giving him a big feed so he falls back to sleep very quickly when I have been desperate for more than a couple of hours sleep) but I really think things are improving. Have a big hug and remember there are lots of us going through the same thing. He will sleep through at some point!

nicci wrote: Thank you, I'm almost crying reading the other posts and learning that Lincoln is normal!! I have alot of friends who's children slept through from very early ages and I was begining to worry that I had stuffed it up somewhere along the line but I was too afraid to ask.

I felt exactly the same as E took forever to sleep through the night..partly due to dummy though..I'm totally against waking babies but we ended up waking him at 930 (after sleeping at 630-7) and he goes through till morning but sometimes (like teething) he is up a few times for dummy .. he is still normal!:) and I sympathise as I know how you feel:) !