Hi Everyone,
Thanks for the warm welcome! Well it's 1:00 am and we're having one of those dreaded nights. Put DD to bed at 8:00 pm but she wasn't able to fall asleep until close to 9:00 pm....knew that meant trouble. Since then she's been awake at 10:00 pm, 11:00 pm, 12:00-1:00 am. (Thought I had her sleeping, but I just heard her making noises again.....groan)
Kasia voluntarily dropped her nighttime feeding when she was about 3 months old (and I never did dreamfeed her either) so I'm not sure why she's been waking up so often at night lately. For the last month she's had her last bottle at 7:00 pm and slept right through to 6:00 am, but last week she started waking over and over again during the night. I'm sure it's not hunger because I'm not getting any signs that she's hungry. She's actually not even crying when she wakes up, she just babbles, moans, shouts out a few times....just enough to keep us awake and make us crazy! Eventually she'll start to cry though, and so it seems that she just doesn't have the ability to self-soothe herself back to sleep.
How do you handle this? Should I just lie in bed and listen to her chattering and hope she falls back asleep (which she never does), should I keep getting up and down like a mad-woman and giving her the soother (which I've been doing), should I pick her up and try to pat/shh her back to sleep? Should I try feeding her even though I dread accidentally getting her back on a night time feed? Every thing I do makes me worry that I'm going to make the situation worse!! Arghhhh!!!!
Hope you all are having a better night's sleep than I am tonight!