Very rough night last night.
It seems like anytime we have a "good" night, it never happens two nights in a row.
After having, what I would consider, ' A perfect day', she was up SO much throughout the night. I thought having good naps, a good daytime schedule, and getting to bed a touch earlier would help her have a good overnight.
Note, that she slept pretty well the previous night (up for 50 min between 10-11pm, up briefly at 5:15, then resettle herself at 6am), woken up at 7 to eat and begin day.
This was her day yesterday:
E 7am
A
S 10-11:40am
E: 12
A
S 3:15-5:10
E: 5:15
A
E: 7:15
A
E 8:40
S 9:10pm
E 11pm (She woke up and I fed her b/c I would have done the dream feed soon anyway)
Then, overnight, she was up at 12am, 1am, 2am, 3am, and 5am. She would take about 20 minutes to settle and then sleep about 30 minutes before waking up very upset. I fed her at 5am b/c I thought she would have to be hungry at that point and thought it would increase our chances of a few hours of sleep. She ate about 1/2 a normal feeding and then did sleep until 7:30am- when she woke up screaming.
It's so hard- this constant waking without understanding why. My husband handles most of the 1am-5am wakings b/c I don't want to agitate her further with the smell of breast milk. He works and is very patient, but he is so ready to just let her cry herself back to sleep and learn to cry and deal with the night on her own. I am really conflicted about this. I keep telling him that it will get better, but I don't know if it will.
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So frustrated.