7 month old waking every 2 hours in the night

Anyone else’s baby still doing the same? The only way I get her back to sleep is by feeding her. I keep seeing posts with babies of similar ages sleeping through and it makes me feel quite upset and a bit like maybe I’m doing something wrong. She has 2/3 naps a day and her night sleep doesn’t seem to change with different day naps. She’s EBF and part of me wonders if formula will help her sleep longer but I’m not sure I want to give her that (just a personal decision). She also has 2 meals a day but it’s questionable on how much of them she actually eats.
I’m getting soo tired!
Any advice?

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Yep we are still up every 2 hours or so but mine refuses to nap half the time xxx

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I’m not sure what to suggests tbh maybe white noise, little amounts of light, create a night routine maybe xxx

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We are the same and my baby is now formula fed and it made no difference! Xx

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My little one wakes every hour once in his own room, as soon as he’s in with us he grizzles every 2/3 hours 🤯 exactly the same with my little one, he’s having 2/3 meals a day, 2/3 40-50 min naps and still won’t sleep . He use to be a brill sleeper right up until the age of 5 months😢 xxx

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We're the same, sometimes even more frequently. Occasionally she will do some 3hr stretches. She had her first evening meal last night and did 2 3.5hr stretches but no idea if that's why! She doesn't eat a whole lot but does like yoghurt so I let her have a whole one after her salmon, mash and broccoli. Although she did 2 longer stretches she did also wake up after an hour at 8pm, up again at 11.30, awake for a half hour at 2.30am, up at 4 then up for the day at 5.45am! And this was a good night 😂 she's EBF

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Mines breastfed and he wakes up 3 times a night. Some good nights 1 or 2. Every day he’s up between 4 5am completely! So you’re not the only one.

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We are exactly the same, BF and waking up every 2 hrs like clockwork, this is in his cot or co sleeping. You are doing an amazing job responding to your LO needs but it is super tiring. There is a Facebook group "being sleep training project" which I find really reassuring reminding me that this type of behaviour is biologically normally and somehow makes me feel lucky to be in this position that I am all my LO needs.

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