Hi all on the recommendation from EASY forum I'm posting here. Here is a link if you want to read all 11 pages. LOL I don't blame you if you wont.
5am wake ups are back I don't think it's an EASY issue?Basic info. My lo is 7.75 months old (will be 8 months in 10days). Before he was unswaddled we were having 4:45/5am wake ups and he couldn't seem to resettle himself. I thought it was gas etc. I did some tweaking or his routine and took him off solids for a a week. But this was right around the holidays so I think some OS was at fault as well. On top of this I had to break him of his swaddle because he started rolling both ways all of a sudden.
So he's fully unswaddled now in a sleep sack. He can sleep independently but lately a little SA I think may have kicked in and he needs some shush/pat before he'll sleep. But he can usually put himself back to sleep when he wakes in the middle of the night.
My issue is I thought we'd fixed this 4:45/5am NW as he was sleeping till 5:45/6 with a 7pm bedtime but that only lasted a week. We're back to this again. I have to go in and shush him and on a bad day pick him up and hold him. I don't rock etc. But I'm so afraid of OT that he doesn't handle well at all.
Here are the last 2 days. Please let me know what you all think. He is only on one meal of solids a day and only does about 1.5oz of fruit or veggies in the AM. He wont eat more than that due to refluxing and he's just not a big eater. He does about 20-24oz before bed and then one night feeding around 2am.
Sat:
A:6-9:35
S:9:35
Woke after 1hr25 min
A:11-2:40
S: 2:40-3:50 woke after 45min but I resettled he slept a bit more 1hr10min I had to wake him
A:3:50-7:15 went to sleep pretty well
slept till 2 woke hungry. Downed his bottle but DH tried to settle him and he wasn't having it. I went in and it took me a good 20min to resettle him at that point. Got to sleep by 2:45 woke at 4:45am resettled he slept till 5:30.. I held him in the chair (not rocking) till 6am and then he was up)
He still needs shush/pat in the crib can't seem to settle himself. I'll leave him just kinda babbling ot himself but after about 10min he'll start crying because he can't get comfy. I'll go in shush etc. and he'll go to sleep on his side.
He's finally fully unswaddled in a sleepsack. I"m trying to introduce a lovey to help him self settle but he just wants to play with it and it seems to get him riled up?
Sunday:
A 6-9:45 thougt to extend his A a bit to get a full 1hr30min
Slept 1hr 24mins
S: 9:45-11:09 (rounded to 11:10
)
A: 11:10-2:50 Made the mistake of doing another full A with an extension and he was OT by nap time. Didn't go to sleep till 3:05
S: 3:05-4:10 woke at 35 min crying resettled took 15min pu/pd and shush pat but he went back to sleep but only for a short period of time.
A:
S: 7:05
Woke at 1:20 resettled himself, woke at 2 and ate
woke at 4:45 I resettled. Woke up at 5:45 and was up for the day. I left him in the crib till 6am.