7 mo same hours nights waking

[lako]

My son Teo, 7 month old,  since is 5 mo wakes up crying almost everyday at 1 and 6.
Then I take him in my arms until he calms down and I put him back in his cot but after 5-10mn y starts crying again so I do it over 1 o 2 times  but as he starts crying louder I breastfeed him.
After drinking a good quantity of milk he stays calm and he falls asleep. I always try to put him back to his bed awake but sometimes  he falls asleep while I am breastfeeding him.
I don't know if Teo is developing a bad habit or if he is really hungry. 
Teo knows how to go to sleep on his own.
When he was 3- 4 months old he was waking 1 time per night and few nights he was sleeping 8.30 to 8.30.
 
His routine: (we live in Spain and we start the day a bit later over there)

8:30 wake and breast feed
9: Fruit (3 to 4 ice cub measure)
10:30 nap
11:30 - 12:00 wake
12:30 breast feed
1:30 veggies (he doesn't want more than 1 ice cube measure) + water
2:30 nap
3:30 wake
5:00 breast feed
6:00 nap (trying to drop it but Teo always gets tired at dinner)
6:45 wake
7:30 bath
7:45 cereals gluten free (6 ice cubes measure) and breast feed
8:30 bedtime


sorry my English is not very good.

[Erin M]

Your English is great, don't worry!

Looking at your daytime routine, you probably want to stretch your A times a little bit -- I'd increase them by about 10-15 minutes every 3-4 days (if you can -- do it slower if he starts getting overtired) until he starts taking longer naps (somewhere closer to 2 hours).  That will help you to drop that nap later in the day.  At 7 months, he should be on 2 naps, but it's hard if his A times are shorter earlier in the day.  If he has longer  A times and takes longer naps, he should be able to make it to bedtime on only 2 naps.

The other thing is that he might genuinely be hungry in the middle of the night.  If you feed him straight off, will he just go right back to sleep?  My ds was feeding multiple times in the night at 7 months -- it turned out that it was much easier to just feed him and get back to sleep within 20 minutes or so instead of trying to just keep on resettling.  I'd work on the routine, and then if the night wakings persist, I would probably just feed him and reevaluate in a few months to see. 

What do you think?

[lako]

It also seems to me that Teo is hungry in the middle of the night. The fact that he is waking every night at the same time confused me and made me think that it might be developing a bad habit.
I am going to work on the routine to drop the last nap.
Thank you very much for your help.

[Erin M]