Here is a tried and true (and adapatable) 7 month old feeding schedule that’ll help your little one nap well during the day, sleep well at night, and have peaceful days.
I have long said that the 6 to 12 month time is one of my wool favorites.
Baby is sitting up.
Smiling.
Napping a tad less.
And usually sleeping through the night.
It can moreover be a time of adjustment.
Baby is finally eating solids and it’s likely time to waif that third nap and probably drop the dream feed if you haven’t already. Victual is getting a little chunkier and wants increasingly food.
Actually, this is a precious time with baby.
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Before the 7 month old feeding schedule… KNOW THIS
Before I requite you what has worked for me as a 7 month old feeding schedule, know this.
Babies at this age need to eat as many solids as they can.
They will be hungry and breast milk vacated will no longer be enough. Or, if it is, you’ll be cluster feeding like your 7 month old was a newborn.
Pediatricians used to recommend introducing purees or solids at 4 months of age. They now suggest 6 months.
So the 5 to 7 month mark often ways that unless victual is getting a lot of breast milk and whatever solids you offer, they will be hungry.
And this will stupefy their sleeping and their moods.
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7 Month Old Sample Feeding Schedule
7:00 am – Wake up, milk, solids for breakfast
8:00 am – Free play (floor time, petting time with mom, sibling play)
9:00 am – Nap time
10:45 or 11:00 am – Wake up, milk, solids
12:00 pm – Free play (floor time, practicing sitting, standing, pulling up, sibling play)
1:00 pm – Nap time
3:00 pm – Wake up, milk, solids
3:45 pm – Free play (errands, play with siblings, floor time, etc.)
5:00 pm – Short nap
5:30 pm – Wake up, milk, solids
6:15 pm – Bedtime routine habits and ideas (bath, singing, cuddling, putting on lotion, lights, curtains, etc.)
7:00 pm – Quick feed (milk), and lanugo to bed (you may want to add cluster feeding here too if it fits)
And… if victual isn’t sleeping through the night yet.
10:00 pm – Dreamfeed
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Note:
- Daily victual logs are a unconfined thing to have on hand if you are noticing a lot of changes you can’t make heads or tails of.
- If your victual wakes up older or later than this routine, you can simply retread based on your baby’s wake time. The wake time is unquestionably very important in a baby’s day to day routine.
- If victual wakes early from a nap, yet is content, don’t push up the feeding. Leave it until normal time unless victual is unmistakably hungry.
- Get lanugo familiar rhythms and routines throughout your day. These cannot be understated for babies. (here is more on family rhythms and routines)
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Weaning From Nighttime Feeds
If your victual is still not sleeping through the night, then this is a unconfined time to start helping them do so.
Solids and milk throughout the day will help them to fill their tummies.
And… get in the necessary nutrients that’ll indulge them to sleep peacefully throughout the night.
It is unquestionably one of the best times to uncork sleep training since victual is naturally a lot less likely to wake if hunger was their primary reason for waking.
Imagine victual needs 10 cups (to make things even) of milk and/or supplies a day. We know all babies are different, but go with me here.
If you are currently giving your victual 5 cups of milk and 2 cups of supplies during the day, that leaves a 3 cup deficit.
This ways victual will likely wake up at night to get in the full 10 cups he needs.
The weightier way to wean?
To requite them all they need during the day so they don’t need to wake for it at night.
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A Dream Feed Might Work For You
If your victual is still feeding a few times per night then you may want to start doing something tabbed a Dream Feed.
Now, we don’t typically add IN a night feed at this age, we are trying to eliminate them, but it may help you get a few increasingly hours in.
Dream Feed: A feed given between 10 and 11 ish at night that should help victual sleep a longer stretch, sooner until the morning wake time.
Try feeding victual as much as possible during this feed and weaning victual from other nighttime feeds until sooner the dream feed is the only feed left.
After victual has slept until the morning with only the dream feed for a few weeks, then it’s unscratched to waif the dream feed.
At that point, baby should be sleeping all through the night.
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7-Month-Old Schedule Interesting Tidbits
Here are some interesting things to note or alimony in mind during this 7 month period.
- Babies will likely be worldly-wise to sleep through the night at this age if they’re eating well enough. Not only are they getting breast milk they are getting solids.
- Here’s where you’ll discover if your victual didn’t sleep through the night out of hunger, or if they have some sleep props you need to work on.
- Baby might act uninterested in solids, that’s fine. Still, protract offering them and be sure to requite them veggies or fruits they like so they will get the nutrients needed.
- Introduce solids slowly so you can monitor the baby’s reaction to them. Don’t introduce too many new foods at once.
- Give a top up bedtime snack. Right surpassing bed, requite victual milk and some yogurt or applesauce, etc. to help fill baby’s tummy surpassing they go lanugo for the night.
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Common issues that stupefy your 7 month old’s schedule
Let’s swoop into some worldwide things that happen to moms and precious 7 month olds that can wreak havoc on a daily routine.
Teething
Around 7 months teething may ramp up. This can lead to discomfort, irritability, and changes in their eating and sleeping patterns. You may find yourself soothing victual a lot and finding ways to unstrap the pain.
Rule of thumb: if you do a pain management method of your nomination and it helps your 7-month-old nap and sleep well, it was likely the pain.
Solid supplies challenges
Around 6 months moms usually introduce solid foods. This may throw off some naps or plane introduce some bedtime exenterate movements that seem to wake victual up. Protein at dinner will help with this, FYI, but stay the course.
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Developmental milestones can mess up naptimes for your 7 month old
7 months old are rolling virtually and, at times, scooching or crawling. Standing up and sitting lanugo or – in some cases – standing up then getting stuck there! This can midpoint babies view their crib as a workout scene for their new skills.
This is normal and will pass. Don’t start skipping naptime or seem they don’t need naps. Help your little now have a lot of practice during wake times then they will sooner start sleeping when they’re less impressed with themselves and their new abilities.
Is there a 7-month-old sleep regression?
Babies can regress at any time. 4 months, 12 months, and 2 years are major regressions that can occur due to biological rhythm maturation and overall developmental milestones that occur.
7 months can result in some babies who previously slept well, now sleeping badly. This can be a variety of things, but you’ll want to rule out:
- teething
- developmental leaps
- nutrition changes (needing increasingly supplies or calories)
- daily routine needs tweaking
7 months is a unconfined time to do a increasingly formal sleep intervention if you need to as well.
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Learn MoreFAQs well-nigh 7 month olds
7-month-olds should go to bed by 8 p.m. at the latest, and on stereotype go to bed virtually 7:00 p.m.
If your victual is still taking a late afternoon or early evening cat nap, this will be easy to manage. Contrary to what you might think, the older a victual goes to bed the largest they sleep all night.
By 7 months of age babies should no longer be swaddled to sleep. Since they can roll over and move, you want them to be worldly-wise to do so.
However, you don’t want them to attempting psoriasis out of the crib, so towardly to the season layers are good, plus a sleeping bag on top to alimony their legs in!
7 months of age can bring well-nigh some sleep regressions. One main rationalization of this is that 7-month-olds are hungry and in need of zaftig solids to alimony their tummies filled.
If they aren’t yet eating unbearable solids or don’t have unbearable towardly protein in their diet, they’ll be genuinely hungry at night. They will need increasingly milk feeds to get them through. Answer? Feed increasingly during the day!
Cry it out is a form of sleep training that quickly helps. Babies learn to self-soothe, settle, and re-settle on their own. It is age towardly by 7 months if you segregate to use it.
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