Constantly tired baby (7 months)

[skeetaboat]

Hi Jennifer, thanks for replying. No the GP didn't check her at all. I think I will take her to the MCHN to see if she has any suggestions, and another GP if that doesn't lead to any answers.

I wonder if anyone else has had experience with a constantly tired baby? Could it just be that she's not sleeping long enough? Eg today she had 4 x naps ranging between 25 and 50 mins.

How many naps per day is usual at 7 months of age?

[[M]umma[M]ia]

4 naps is fine at this age, but I would be trying to get longer sleeps out of her. Maybe by trying a carrier, swing, hammock, changing sleep position or being wrapped?

Does she go back to sleep easy even if shes only been awake for 15 minutes? Rubbing her eyes, could she have an allergy?

I agree, you need to follow up on this.

[skeetaboat]

Sometimes she can be resettled if she has just stirred or needs a burp, but if she actually wakes up and opens her eyes after a short sleep (which is often the case), we can't usually get her back to sleep easily. Just needs to be held and cuddled for the next hour or so until she's exhausted enough to go to sleep again.

She is still wrapped for all sleeps. She sleeps equally badly in bed or in her bouncer. She gets agitated in slings so they're out. I sometimes use the pram to get her to sleep but that too yeilds short naps. I don't think rubbing her eyes is due to allergy because she's only doing it when she's tired. She tends to sleep on her side (either side), what other position could I try?

Any ideas for how to get her to sleep longer? I try to resettle when she wakes by walking her or feeding her, but she usually arches her back and tries to wriggle out of my arms.

[Jennifer13]

My DD was having two long naps at about that age, so 2-3 hrs each. Your DD sounds like she's getting the same amount of sleep in, but in smaller bursts. How do you go with resettling her if she wakes still tired?

[skeetaboat]

Sometimes we can resettle her if, for example, she stirs but doesn't wake because she needs to burp. But if she actually wakes up or we take too long to respond, then she won'r resettle. She'll just stay awake, exhausted, tired and grumpy etc, for about another hour until we can get her to sleep

[skeetaboat]

Got an appt with the MACH tomorrow.. hoping to get some answers/guidance/insight. I'm starting to think maybe allergies are a prob for her..

[Olive]

DD2 was still having 4 sleeps a day at that age, she would only last 90mins before needing bed again