Waking before dream feed

[ekaleksak]

My daughter is eight weeks old now.  We have had some napping issues so far, but we seem to be working them out. She is doing this odd thing in the evenings. She goes to bed between 7 and 8. Then she sleeps for 45 minutes or so and wakes up. I shh/pat her back to sleep.  The she wakes up around 10  before I would dream feed.  I feed her then, since it would take me until her normal dream feed time to get her back to sleep. Then she takes until 11 or 11:30 to go back to sleep. Then she eats again at 3:30 and 6:30. Is this normal?  The books make it sound like she should go to sleep at 7, dream feed at 11, and stay asleep the whole time, until the baby needs a night feed in the early am.  Did anyone else have something like this happen?

[becj86]

Sounds absolutely normal for a baby who is essentially still a newborn.

How are her days looking?

[ekaleksak]

Thanks.  My other two children are a little older (7 and 10) so it has been a little while and I couldn't remember if they were similar or not. Her days are usually pretty good now.  Se will take three naps and a catnap. Sometimes they are a little shorter than 60-90 minutes, but she usually gets at least one or two good ones in. Some nights she will sleep until 5 am, after going down around 11 or a bit later. Sometimes she still wakes sometime in between 11 and 5 once for a feed but I guess I feel like that is pretty normal for an 8 week old.

[becj86]

Pretty normal to be feeding 3hrly around the clock, any longer stretch and you're doing well