7.5 month old waking constantly through the night

sooty&sweep

Hi

To be honest I would agree with everyone else and try to get your little one to go to bed a little later. Although it may mean that you have to keep him awake to do this.
I can only tell you what worked for me with mine but they're all different so good luck.
I used to "force" both of mine to have a decent nap after lunch either by being out in the car or going for a walk in the pram. If they didn't have that nap they'd try to go to sleep later in the afternoon and then not sleep through the night.
Does he have a feed before he goes to bed ?
With my daughter she wanted a feed about 12 - 1am but we brought that forward and my husband would give her a bottle before he went to bed about 11ish.
My son used to wake for a feed during the night but then fall properly asleep whilst feeding and then wake 2 hours later. I found that if I fed him until he fell asleep then changed his nappy which woke him up again and then more milk I could get him to take a bigger feed this way and so he slept longer.

Good Luck

Jen

Lunar_Eclipse

LittleMissMPB wrote: »

He sounds like he's over tired. Over tired babies never sleep as well in my experience.

Totally agree with this and it describes our DD1. I also failed to get either of my children to take dream feeds; they just would not wake up for anyone/thing.

I would move his bedtime later and try everything to get him to sleep more during the day. Once you move bedtime, he should sleep later in the morning and you might find one longer sleep in the day works better (possibly with a 20 minute nap around 4/5 that you have to wake him up from to keep everything on track.) With DD2, a much better sleeper, we had a very successful period of 7.30-8.30 night time sleep and then a good 3 hours from roughly 12-3. (DD1 never did anything like this, so I sympathise.)

As well as trying to avoid over tiredness, I think daytime stimulation is needed by some children much more than others. I think it's no coincidence that my second child slept much better and longer than my eldest, because we were out at play groups, music sessions, feeding the ducks, the park, swimming etc from the outset.

concerned43

Just to say I sympathise with you - I had the same problem with my DS and tried everthing ever suggested in order to get him to sleep all through the night - 13 years later I am still trying to get him to sleep through the night - no one believes me when I tell them I have not had more than 4 hours sleep a night for the last 13 years!
Though I am sure you will do better than me but I would get all the help you can at this stage and try and nip it in the bud - you don't want to end up like me!