Sleep

This is normal, where does he sleep?

I can't offer any help unfortunately but I'm right there with you except mine is formula fed. I am exhausted

Still going through this as well what I’ve learned that can help is keeping a steady routine like the death bottle bed method so your baby knows when it’s time to go to sleep. set the mood use a white noise machine. If you have keep the room dark at bedtime. I’ve also learned that because you are breast-feeding and if you sleep next to the baby, he can smells your milk throughout the night and from that he gets a sensory trigger that will cause him to wake up and want to feed. and if you’re having trouble getting him to sleep on his own as well, try the Ferber method. oh, and not every time your baby wakes up he’s hungry. Sometimes You can try putting him back to sleep without feeding him

I couldn’t sleep train my first kid until he was ready to drop night feedings. Then he’d only wake if he wanted held. At that point I was tired of getting up for no reason. Pretty sure that was around 9 months 🫤 your little one sounds normal, and it is exhausting.
My husband didn’t think cosleeping with us was safe in bed so I slept on the couch. Hope you get to stay in bed

When I read “my baby still doesn’t sleep through the night” I thought maybe your child is 5 or something and at that stage that might not be normal (though for some it is). But at 7m it is extremely normal and the norm. Yes there are some babies that do and their parents have just lucked out. It’s about 20-25% from what I’ve seen from a recent study

I wasn’t one of the lucky ones hahah and my baby is not sleeping through the night at 22m. The stretches are getting longer, and every since he’s been about 11-13m I’ve not been sleep deprived anymore. I have a comfy set up, sharing my bed, BF him when he wakes (the absolute quickest way to go back to sleep) and get between 7-8h (broken up) most nights like that. You can do that too once you find your comfy set up (Laurynes comment has some amazing advice).

I don’t have any advice but we are in the same situation! Exclusively breastfed, we at most will get 3 hours but sometimes 1 or 2. He ends up in our bed too which I hate as I never feel like I can sleep properly with him in the bed! Also will only feed to sleep. Personally I don’t plan on sleep training but it is very exhausting

Glad to read someone is in the same boat as me as I just feel completely defeated and was also thinking about sleep training. I get 1-2 hour stretches and on a good night, 3 max. EBF and have ended up cosleeping as it’s the only way for me to get any sleep. Would prefer not to be cosleeping but that’s what it is now. I dont remember it being like this with my first but I’m completely exhausted.

how are his day naps?

100% sleep train. I EBF and was up every hour for the first 6 months of her life. Sleep deprivation was killing me and so hired a sleep consultant and now she wakes only once on average or sleeps through the night for 11 hours!