My little man is a little over 7 months, and has been doing so good with sleeping for the past 3-4 months. But for about the last 2ish weeks, he has been waking us up during the night. And he screams for us! It isn't one of his normal sounding cries. Anyway, we get up and check on him, and calm him down without picking him up, but he just carries on and on. So usually we'll make him a bottle, and he goes back to sleep for a few hours. Some nights he'll get up a ton, and other nights he'll get up just a couple of times. We have tried tylenol in case his teeth are bothering him, but that only has worked once or twice. We have tried feeding him more before bed, we've tried putting him to bed earlier, we've tried naps throughout the day, but nothing is working. And during the day he is happy as can be, so I don't think he is sick or anything. I don't remember my DD going through this when she was his age. Does anyone have any ideas of why he is waking? I recently read that between 6-9 months some babies start waking more often because of their rapid pace of development, but I don't know how true that is.

Not that this is good news or anything lol, but my dd started that at 8months and now at 12 1/2 months she still isn't sleeping through the night anymore. I'm too soft to let her cio so she just ends up in our bed, but i have been told it's completly normal for babies that have previously been good sleepers to start night waking at that age. Good luck!

Mine went through this at that age too. I decided it was because their bodies were trying to prepare them for walking and they were adding calcium to strengthen their bones. Maybe it's a painful process.

I think it's sort of like the "growing pains" that kids experience when they're about 10 or so.