Hi everyone.
Mr 12mo has started for the past week or so waking at around 3.30/4 am and doesn't go back to sleep for 60-90 minutes. He's very alert, moving around in his cot. We try everything in the night:
- shh/pat
- rubbing tummy/back
- cuddles in the chair
- verbal reassurance
- small bottle (has been night weaned for about 3 months)
- drink of water
- pain relief like teething gel in case it is his teeth moving around again
He is chatting and happy when we go in, but grizzles or screams when we leave the room.
Feeling very tired. His room is dark, we use white noise, he is warm (in a cosy sleeping bag), he has a comforter and dummy. He is well fed during the day. His routine looks like this:
6 am WU (normally - although if he goes back to sleep around 5/5.30 am he is waking up closer to 7 am)
7 am breafast
8.30 am bottle
11/11.30 am lunch
12 pm - 2/2.30 pm sleep
2.30 pm bottle
3 pm snack
5/5.30 pm dinner
6 pm bottle
6.30 pm lights are out
I have tried wake to sleep at about 3 am and that sometimes works or pushes the wake up to a little later eg: 5 am, and then he just won't go back to sleep at all.
Daylight saving ended here on the weekend which he has adjusted to OK as we pushed bedtime back by 15 mins/day in the 3 days leading up to the clocks going back (it is Autumn here). His nap earlier in the week was more like 11 am just due to the adjustment but have gotten it back to 12 pm, but still getting that wake up (and this wake up was happening before the clocks changed too).
Anyway would love your help and ideas please! Used to a waking baby but only for 10-20 minutes, not 90! ARGH!