Hi,
I'm in a bit of a jam. My almost-6 month old DS wakes up every night around 4 am, and it takes more than an hour to get him back to sleep. He normally has a soaking wet diaper, so I have to change him. He's not crying, just awake. I've tried shh-pat, holding him til drowsy, etc, but nothing seems to work. The real jam I'm in is that, in order to get him back to sleep more quickly, like in 5 minutes, I've been bringing him into the spare bed with me til we wake around 7 (I know, I know! Bad, bad, bad.)
He's on a 4-hour EASY, is exclusively BF (about to start solids next week), but one of his naps is generally short (45 min), with the other one being 1.5 hours, then a 45-minute catnap around 5. I'm wondering if I should be moving him to only 2 naps a day and making A times longer than 2 hours? If so, what would this look like? It also often takes a really long time for me to get him to sleep for his nap, so maybe more A time is what he needs between sleeps??
Routine specifically looks like this:
E 7
A til 9
S til 11 (or if he wakes earlier, which he often does, quiet A)
E 11
A til 1
S til 3 (again, quiet A for early waking, which is again, often)
E 3
A til 5
S til 5:45
A (usually bath) til 6:30
E 6:30
bedtime 7
DF 11
then that darned 4 am waking.
Any suggestions? (aside, of course, from no longer bringing him to bed; I'm going to stop that a.s.a.p., if I can find the fortitude!).
Thanks in advance!
Allison