7 month old starting to wake through the night

Hey everyone

My little girl is 7 months tomorrow and she has suddenly started waking several times through the night.

We haven’t changed her routine - she is going down to sleep at about half 7 and previously slept through until about 6:30/7am but for the last couple of days she is repeatedly waking up.

Last night she woke up 12 times through the night. She will wake up and be extremely distressed, we will try and give her opportunity to self soothe and try to shush her before picking her up but this isn’t working. We are finding that the second we pick her up, she is falling straight back to sleep however is then waking up again after a really short interval.

This seems to have happened completely out of the blue and I’m just wondering if anyone else experienced this at roughly the same time and if anything helped?

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We have had this/going through this currently. My LO wakes for feeds still, but was also waking minimum every hour. I think we are finally starting to see it improve but it has been about 3 weeks!

I completely understand your confusion and honestly could have written this myself a month ago. We are still having lots of wake ups, as soon as I pick my baby girl up, she's straight asleep again. When I put her back down, it's about 3-5mins before she wakes up again. It will start from midnight onwards, and I have tried EVERYTHING😅 My daughter used to sleep through the night, no problem.

I think it's probably a mixture of teething and maybe separation anxiety? My daughter hasn't cut a tooth yet, but there's two that's so close🤞

Might be a regression/ growth spurt? We’re going through the exact same thing, and we cave by putting her in bed with us and miraculously she sleeps perfectly then 😂

Going through the same! My daughter turned 7 months yesterday and since 6 months she’s woken up much more and wants to comfort feed isn’t happy by just being held or rocked back to sleep. Waking up screaming too and in short periods of time from 20 mins to 2 hours. No teeth yet but think we are close! She co-sleeps so don’t think it’s separation anxiety for us?

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