Hey-can anyone help me with some good pointers on getting my 7 mos old son to sleep through the night with out

Question

I am trying to limit the night feedings to one nightly,but he wakes up 3 and 4 times a night still.

Answer 1

Are you breast feeding your baby? If so have you started giving him formula w/Iron. If not, if so you might want to start giving the baby some formula or your breast milk w/baby cereal in it, you have to make the baby's bottle nipple hole a little bigger to be able to suck the milk out w/cereal in it, do this before he goes to bed, add like a tea spoon and gradually a little more till you move up to a table spoon, be careful and watch him good, to make sure he is getting a good healthy flow. Before you put the baby to bed give the baby a snack, baby food the small jar. It helps to keep them sleeping longer.

Around the time they start teething, that could be a reason for the many times the baby is waking up so many times. So if the baby is teething you might want to rub a little Tylenol on baby's gums and talk to your doctor. If you haven't started the baby on baby food, you should, and give the baby cereal's, mix it with baby formula or apple juice.

Baby's love water so give the baby water w/fluoride, many moms don't do this and wonder why the baby is acting thirsty after they are fed a bottle of milk, once they get to drink water you see a sudden change in them, they need water.

Get one of the Parent's free magazines out there, they have so much stuff in them to help you out w/your baby...

Answer 2

I have a 15 month old son who still doesn't sleep through the night without night feedings. He is so busy during the day that I assume this is the only time he can relax and breastfeed. My daughter weaned at 13 months. I heard boys go longer. A good book to read is called "The No-cry Sleep Solution" since it talks about ways to get your baby to sleep without crying. Dr. Sears website is also full of information. I just figure it's only a short time and won't last forever. I also co-sleep which helps to keep my sanity. My son also won't drink cow's milk so I figure any milk I can give him (whether at night or day) is better than none. You can try feeding him an hour before bedtime, instead of breastfeeding to sleep, which may help him to not associate breastfeeding with sleep. Good luck to you and your little one.

"the time in your arms, at your breast, and in your bed is a relatively short while in the life of a child, yet the memories of love and availability will last forever." from Dr. Sears

Answer 3

This is always going to be a question on this website, I think. It comes up almost every day! Of course we would all like to have full night's sleep without interruptions. But the reality is, you have a BABY. Babies are new to the world. They are still figuring things out. They don't know what sleep is. They have different needs than adults and older children.

The first step is accepting the fact that your baby may not sleep through the night until he is much older. He has only been here for half a year! What is this fixation with babies sleeping through the night?!?! I don't know of any baby at this age who can do this, except for those poor little ones who are forced to cry, scream, puke themselves to sleep.

Please let your baby be a baby and don't put unrealistic expectations on him, or yourself.

There are so many things that affect babies and their sleep--teething (a big one for my two kids), fears, growth spurts, needing Mom, etc. and they can't communicate those things in a way you can really understand, other than just listening and having empathy and trying to understand what life is like for him. As long as you keep teaching him that he is safe and taken care of, it will get better and he will thrive!

As Dr. Sears says, babies need to have needs, and we need to meet those needs, whether we are tired or not. Parenting is a 24 hour job!

He's waking up for a reason, not to inconvenience you or manipulate you (as some people might think). As hard as it may be, all you can do is comfort him and reassure him and continue to give him GOOD associations with sleep, and he will learn to trust and feel secure and feel at ease with himself and the world.

Please read my other answers to other similar questions for other ideas and comments.

Good luck! My older boy didn't sleep through the night until he was about 3. And now, when he's out, he's out!

Answer 4

Does your son sleep in his own room? I know that when I finally moved my girls out of our room they immediately started sleeping better (meaning they began sleeping all the way through the night!!!) Another option is to try to keep him on a little bit of a schedule during the day. Don't allow him to sleep for really long stints in the afternoon (more than 3 or 4 hours). Babies naturally have a time of the day where they want to sleep longer. Try to get this to happen at night. If need be wake him up a little early in the afternoon. Eventually he will begin doing this on his own!
Good Luck! This can be a hard time. Try to get rest when he does! Hope this helped!!!

Answer 5

To be honest it depends on what kind of answers you are looking for. If you want the right doctor way then I will have to pass but I can tell you what worked for me.
First try, feeding him (the baby cereal that you put in the milk, well warm that with his formula or milk and use a jar of baby food and mix it. After a good feeding try to give him some diluted juice or water. Then do the bath. I would massage my son while I was in the process of getting him dressed for bed.

Not promising this will work for your son but I say give it a try.

Answer 6

At seven months he should be able to sleep for extended periods without eating... one feeding maximum. Are you breastfeeding or formula?
My daughter is on formula... formula fed babies tend to sleep longer periods.
At 6 months I decided that I wouldn't give her a bottle if she woke up... she had one right before bed, so I know she's not hungry. It worked fine. I just held her and walked with her until she went back to sleep.
Of course there have been some rough nights, when I break out the bottle... but I always try to get her back to sleep without one first, and it ususally works.

Answer 7

I know people whose infants rarely slept through the night until they were weaned off their bottle. you little one is still too young, but you may want to try soon.

Answer 8

Have you thougt about a shot of whiskey that ought to put the littl one out.