Won't sleep for more than 2 hours at a time at night

[Izraelsmom]

Advice needed!!!! My 7 week old will only sleep in two hour increments at night. He naps beautifully during the day and would actually sleep longer, but I wake him after 1 1/2 hrs. We have been putting him to bed at 8 pm and he will sleep fine until about 1:30 am - we do a dream feed at 10 pm. Are we putting him to bed too early? Sometimes he's so tired, he falls asleep before 8, so that's why we made the bedtime 8. When he wakes during the night (outside of his feeding times), he's not hungry, just needs to be reswaddled and goes right back to sleep. But this happens every hour. Any advice?

Thanks

[Colin Macs Mom]

This is probably not what you want to hear, but for his age you're doing very well    8pm is a good bedtime, but if he's falling asleep sooner you may want to consider 7:30. But really, 8pm to 1:30am is very good for a 7 week old.

I assume though that you do feed again after the dreamfeed?

[jennyh]

i would say that too.

[Izraelsmom]

Yes - we do feed during the night. I just found it strange that he sleeps well until about 1:30 am, and then is up every hour until 7, when we start his day.

Thanks for the encouragement.