u/EconomyPace6722

Has anyone dealt with this with a 7 month old?

My daughter just turned 7 months old. Bedtime is 9pm, and she usually wakes somewhere between 8:30am and 10am. Most days it's around 9am, but it varies.

She's sleep trained and generally knows how to fall asleep independently. Bedtime isn't usually a huge issue, and for naps she also falls asleep on her own most of the time.

Her schedule is roughly two naps a day. If she wakes around 9:30am, first nap is around 11:30am, second nap around 4:30pm. Wake windows are usually about 2 hours before the first nap, then around 3.5-4 hours between sleeps.

One thing that might be relevant is that we only switched to two naps about a week ago. Before that she was on three naps. She used to fight the third nap a lot, and sometimes bedtime too, which is part of why I made the switch. I tried two naps one day and she seemed to handle it really well, and honestly it made life a lot less stressful because I wasn't constantly trying to squeeze in a third nap that she clearly didn't want.

The issue is night wakes.

Sometimes she'll wake to feed and go straight back to sleep. Last night I decided to try putting her back in the cot awake after a feed instead of helping her back to sleep.

She cried for about 10 minutes, I comforted her, then another 10 minutes, comforted her again, etc. The problem is that her cot is in our room, so I'm right there and I think that makes it harder because she can see me and clearly wants me.

Eventually I gave up and brought her into bed, but then she was suddenly WIDE awake. Not upset. Just awake.

For over an hour she was rolling around, crawling, laughing, trying to play, basically having the time of her life at 2am. I tried feeding, rocking, cuddling, holding her, bringing her into bed, everything I could think of, and nothing worked. She was awake for about an hour and a half before finally going back to sleep.

What do you do in this situation? If you attempt independent sleep after a night feed and it completely backfires, do you keep trying, or do you just abandon it for the night?

Also, why do you think this happens? Does this sound like a schedule issue? Could the recent switch to two naps be causing it somehow? Is she maybe getting too much daytime sleep, not enough, or is this just one of those random baby things that happens occasionally?

Would love to hear from anyone who's had a baby suddenly decide that 2am is party time after a failed attempt at settling back to sleep.

My baby is about to turn 7 months and I’m confused how so many people here are already on 2 naps 😅

She sleeps great independently and goes down easily, but she absolutely cannot handle the wake windows I keep seeing recommended (2.5/2.5/2.5/3). She’s more like 2/2/2/2.5–3 depending on the day. If I try to push past 2 hours she gets super fussy, rubs her eyes/face, won’t play, and clearly just wants sleep.

If we’re out somewhere stimulating she can stay awake longer, but not happily. She gets overstimulated, wants to be held, and is basically just pushing through it rather than enjoying being awake.

Bedtime is around 9pm and she wakes somewhere between 8:30–9:30.

I’ve tried 2 naps before and those days were miserable. She was overtired and cranky basically the whole day.

Also a side question about nights. She still wakes to feed, which is fine, but sometimes if she gets slightly disturbed (noise, my husband snoring, etc.) she’ll fully wake up and start looking around. Once that happens she struggles to go back to sleep on her own and I usually end up feeding or resettling her for a while. I thought at this age sleep pressure would be high enough for her to resettle more easily since she’s sleep trained, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. Is that normal, or should she realistically be able to go back to sleep independently in the night too?

Main question is still the same: is it normal at this age to still need 3 naps and shorter wake windows, or should I be actively pushing the 2 nap transition? And if your baby switched around this age, what wake windows actually worked?

I’m looking for TV show recommendations that match a very specific vibe, so I’ll try to be clear about what works and what doesn’t for me.

What I like:

Bright, light, feel-good tone (I really don’t like “dark” shows visually or emotionally)

Fast pacing with strong episode hooks

Bingeable shows where something is always happening

Comedy, dramedy, or light drama is ideal

Some chaos, romance, or crime elements are fine if they stay engaging and not heavy

Strong character chemistry and ensemble casts

What I don’t enjoy:

Slow-burn shows that take too long to get going

Mystery shows that are mostly waiting for reveals

Visually dark or gloomy shows

“Vibe-only” shows that are more atmospheric than plot-driven

Shows I’ve liked:

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

The Good Place

Good Girls

Desperate Housewives

Jane the Virgin

Ugly Betty

Schitt’s Creek

Sex Lives of College Girls

New Girl

Superstore

Resident Alien

Dead to Me

Community

Friends

Miracle Workers (currently watching, somewhat enjoying)

Shows I didn’t get into:

Only Murders in the Building (too slow for me)

Parks and Recreation (couldn’t get into it)

Gilmore Girls (didn’t hold my attention)

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (didn’t click)

Psych (not engaging enough)

Good Omens (not interesting enough pace-wise)

Current / planned:

What We Do in the Shadows (planning to watch)

Abbott Elementary (haven’t tried yet)

Scrubs (considering)

The Righteous Gemstones (interested)

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (interested, unsure about the musical aspect)

Santa Clarita Diet (interested but unsure due to gore)

What I’m looking for:

Basically shows that are:

Funny or dramedy-heavy

Easy to binge

High rewatch value

Engaging from early on (no slow builds)

Not too heavy or depressing

Ideally modern or at least not visually dull/dark

Platform preference:

Preferably available on Netflix, Disney+, or Prime Video (included with subscription, not requiring extra purchases). I can access other sources if needed, but only if the show is easy to find and widely available (no obscure/low-availability shows that are hard to stream consistently).

Open to both popular and underrated shows, as long as they’re genuinely good and consistently engaging rather than purely atmospheric or slow-paced.

I’m looking for TV show recommendations that match a very specific vibe, so I’ll try to be clear about what works and what doesn’t for me.

What I like:

Bright, light, feel-good tone (I really don’t like “dark” shows visually or emotionally)

Fast pacing with strong episode hooks

Bingeable shows where something is always happening

Comedy, dramedy, or light drama is ideal

Some chaos, romance, or crime elements are fine if they stay engaging and not heavy

Strong character chemistry and ensemble casts

What I don’t enjoy:

Slow-burn shows that take too long to get going

Mystery shows that are mostly waiting for reveals

Visually dark or gloomy shows

“Vibe-only” shows that are more atmospheric than plot-driven

Shows I’ve liked:

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

The Good Place

Good Girls

Desperate Housewives

Jane the Virgin

Ugly Betty

Schitt’s Creek

Sex Lives of College Girls

New Girl

Superstore

Resident Alien

Dead to Me

Community

Friends

Miracle Workers (currently watching, somewhat enjoying)

Shows I didn’t get into:

Only Murders in the Building (too slow for me)

Parks and Recreation (couldn’t get into it)

Gilmore Girls (didn’t hold my attention)

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (didn’t click)

Psych (not engaging enough)

Good Omens (not interesting enough pace-wise)

Current / planned:

What We Do in the Shadows (planning to watch)

Abbott Elementary (haven’t tried yet)

Scrubs (considering)

The Righteous Gemstones (interested)

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (interested, unsure about the musical aspect)

Santa Clarita Diet (interested but unsure due to gore)

What I’m looking for:

Basically shows that are:

Funny or dramedy-heavy

Easy to binge

High rewatch value

Engaging from early on (no slow builds)

Not too heavy or depressing

Ideally modern or at least not visually dull/dark

Platform preference:

Preferably available on Netflix, Disney+, or Prime Video (included with subscription, not requiring extra purchases). I can access other sources if needed, but only if the show is easy to find and widely available (no obscure/low-availability shows that are hard to stream consistently).

Open to both popular and underrated shows, as long as they’re genuinely good and consistently engaging rather than purely atmospheric or slow-paced.

6-month-old suddenly struggling at bedtime after successful Ferber. What would you adjust?

We sleep trained using Ferber and it worked well. She can fall asleep independently, and naps are still mostly okay.

For the past week, things changed:

- Some naps she still falls asleep fine, but others she cries for ~10 minutes first

- Bedtime has become a nightmare. She’s been crying up to an hour most nights

- I do check-ins, have tried feeding, even offered a bottle but she doesn’t really want it

- A couple of times after an hour of trying, I ended up holding her to sleep because she just wouldn’t settle

Wake windows are around 2–2.5 hours during the day, and the last wake window before bed is about 2.5–3 hours. Routine hasn’t really changed.

I’m trying to figure out:

- Is this a regression, overtiredness, or something else?

- Should I stick with Ferber, adjust intervals, or switch to extinction?

- Could my check-ins or interventions be making things worse?

Would really appreciate hearing what worked for others in a similar situation.

So we decided to sleep train our baby at around 5 months and we did the Ferber method. In about a week and a bit she had learned to self soothe and was falling asleep on her own for naps as well as bedtime.

Her bedtime is 9pm wakes up between 8.30 to 10am and has wake windows between 1.5 to 2.5 hours. She's been sleeping alone for the past month and all of a sudden it's like we didn't even sleep train her. She's screaming hysterically at nights after I've fed changed burped her I do check-ins but doesn't seem to help at all. I pick her up soothe her and put her back only for the screaming to start again.

And the thing is for some naps she will still fall asleep on her own with zero crying but for other and bedtime she doesn't anymore.

I don't know what to do anymore it's driving me crazy. We thought we were done with the sleep issues once we had sleep trained her

She has a bedtime routine where we feed her bath her and read her a story tell her good night and leave but doesn't make much of a difference.