Waking 3 hourly at night for feeds (7 months)

[bublie]

I was hoping for some suggestions to our problem.
7 months old bubs is sleeping well during the day, self settling for the most part at bedtime BUT is waking every 3 or 4 hours in the night wanting a feed.
Once she cries theres no consoling her other than with a feed (after which she promptly returns to sleep). We've tried giving her a drink of water, letting her cry, using self settling techniques ...but to no avail - she's insisting on a feed.

Im fairly sure that by now she no longer needs the additional milk, and I fear this is now just a bad habit thats being going on since birth and I'm having trouble fixing it

Has anyone had a similar problem with a successful outcome, or any suggestions ??

Many thanks

[Ginger]

sounds completely normal for a 7 month old to me....

[~Kim~]

Yeah, hun, sorry to be the bearer of an answer you don't want but it is pretty normal.
Having already had one who did this and up to my second, I know that it isn't something that happens forever, hovever much it feels like it. Some babies do need extra food at night.

[sweetpea678]

it's pretty normal, my 14 month old is still doing it.

[[M]umma[M]ia]

mayb try something more filling at dinner time? cut down a sleep during the day? have u tried a dream feed at about 10 pm before u go to bed?? are u Bfing or FF?

[Shanti]

My 7 month old DD quite often wakes once or twice in the night for a feed too. It's pretty normal for their age... she is breastfed. Are you breastfeeding? Breastfed babies also tend to want to feed more often in the night (from what i've read and heard too).
My DD self settles beautifully also at bedtime 7pm and will usually sleep til 2 or 3am when she wakes for a feed then back to sleep straight away until 7am. That's on an "average" night... other nights she might wake at 11pm for a feed, back to bed til 3am for a feed again then sleep til 7am. It's pretty common for their age. I know it's tiring some nights but it's just part of being a Mummy It won't always be like this and I sometimes think I'll actually miss those night feeds one day.....
Food is not just food to them, it's also comfort and security and cuddles with Mummy

[Becs_bubs]

Yep, sounds normal here too - both mine did it. My son fed HOURLY for the first 6 weeks or so, then went to 2-3 hourly and eventually, around the 10 month mark, we squeezed it out to 3-4 hourly. He was breastfed up until 19 months.

I'm hoping this next one isn't an 'hourly' kind of boy again....