Hi @Chae – Thank you for writing to us! It sounds like you have a very active sleeper! My youngest is the same way and always has been! Active sleeping in one thing, but waking so often at night is another! Your 7 month old may be waking for the pacifier, and/or waking because he cannot fall back to sleep on his own. In this case, you may want to start teaching him to fall asleep on his own, and back to sleep on his own too. This article on our blog can help:
https://www.babysleepsite.com/sleep-training/baby-fall-asleep-alone-5-steps/
We’d love to help more – if interested please contact us for more info and recommendations!
Hang in there Chae!

Hi @Shelby –
Thank you for writing to us. It sounds like your daughter is sleeping well at night, which is great to hear! If this schedule is working for your family, and she’s getting enough sleep, there’s no need to change it!! If you do want to change things, we have a great resource for help! I’d like to recommend our VIP Members Area, which gives you access to all of our e-Books as well as audio tele-seminar recordings, case studies, and do-it-yourself tutorials, including a workbook designed to help you create your own sleep plan. My favorite feature is the access to our weekly “members only” expert chat sessions, where one of our sleep consultants will answer your specific questions!
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My baby is 7 months old. I have started her feedings at 6AM right before I leave for work. After I feed her I normally put her straight back to bed bc my husband goes into work later and she is normally still tired. I am still feeding her every 3 hours so by the end of the day I feed her at 6pm and then again at 9pm, but it’s so late and I know she should be asleep by then. I feel like if her last feeding is at 6pm, it’s to early still. So i’m not sure when to do her last feeding. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!!

Hi Heather,
Sorry to hear you’re having this trouble! We usually recommend handling health issues before night weaning, so check in with your pediatrician or lactation consultant first. Most 7 month-olds are still eating once or twice at night anyway, so your medical professional can make look at her eating and weight and make sure she’s gaining well before you try night weaning. I hope this helps!

Thanks for writing @Ashley! I’m sorry that your 7 month old is taking SUCH short naps, and is waking so many times at night for a feed! You’re definitely not alone in trying rice to help him sleep longer, and this does not work in many cases! This article on our blog should be helpful with night weaning him:
https://www.babysleepsite.com/sleep-training/baby-night-wean-3-signs/
And you may want to think about how he falls asleep now, and work towards having him fall asleep independently, and see if this helps for the night wakings and the short naps too.
We can definitely help with this!
Please check out our one on one consulting options here, for the quickest help:
https://www.babysleepsite.com/baby-toddler-sleep-consulting-services/
Hang in there Ashley!

Hi Avalon,
Thank you for your comment! Most 7 month-olds are on a schedule that will include the catnap, but there are some babies who will have a longer nap gap in the late afternoon and will want to stay up until 6:30/7PM after the 1PM nap. It will just depend on your baby 🙂 The schedules we offer are based on the real babies we’ve worked with over 10 years, but will not work for every single baby out there – they’re meant to be used as a guide for you to adapt to your baby. In your case, it may be that offering the catnap is the best option, unless your baby is refusing the nap very often or seems like he can make it to the later bedtime. But if he wakes at 2:30, takes a 30 minute catnap at 4:30, and is asleep at 7:30, that might work? You may have to play around.

If you want to discuss it with a sleep consultant directly, we do offer weekly chats with a consultant in our Members Area, and that can be a great place for these kinds of questions as they come up: https://www.babysleepsite.com/diy/#membership

I hope this helps!