Hello there! I was just wondering whether anyone has any suggestions to help my dd sleep beyond 5:30am. She is 16weeks old and if following 7-7 routine. She has a nap for 30/45mins at 9am and then 2/2:15mins at 12 and then 30mins sometime between 4 and 5pm. We start the bedtime routine at 5.30 with nappy off and then bath bottle book and in bed by 6:45 with her usually asleep by 7pm.
She is bottle fed (cows milk intolerant and on ranitidine and domperidone as has reflux) and currently has 5 feeds a day one of which is a dream feed at 10:30pm. The last 2 feeds of the day she normally consumes 6.5oz and otherwise can vary between 4-6oz.
She occasionally wakes around 4:30am but manages to resettle herself. We have had a couple of nights where she has managed to resettle through to me waking her a 7am but she tends to wake at 5:30 and then attempts to resettle herself but by 6/6:15 I have to go in and try and help her.
I know she is not hungry at this point as have tried feeding and whilst she will drink she then refuses the 7am feed. I've also tried water and she is not interested. I've persevered with PU/PD which has helped with her resettling during the day and dropping the 4:30am wake up but does not seem to help at 5:30am when she seems to then be unable to drift back to a deep sleep. The other morning she was awake off and on through until 6:30 when I brought her downstairs and started the day.
I know she is still tired when she wakes at 5:30 - this morning we attempted for 40mins to go back to sleep with her fussing and working up to a mantra cry before I gave in and brought her in to bed with me when she then slept like a log and had to be woken at 7am. I know that this is not the answer and don't want her to get into the habit of coming into bed with us -likewise I know I am lucky that she sleeps though until 5:30am!
Is there anything I'm missing here? Any way I can help her sleep through to 7am?
Her bedroom is as dark as I can make it with blackout blind, venetian blind and curtains. I've tried using white noise at night as it seems to help block out noise during the day for her to be able to sleep but she still wakes. She has a cushki and bunny rabbit as a lovie but does not seem fussed if they move down the cotbed. She did have a dummy but has been dummy free for the past 2weeks both day and night.
During the day awake time is playing with toys, gym mat, bouncer chair, walks, baby massage class and socialising with other Mums and babies.
Any help or suggestions gratefully received!