My now 7 month old used to sleep through when I first started EASY 4 hour routine when she was 5 months. When she turned 6 months she started waking up during the night. She went through a growth spurt for a few days, I think, and fed twice a night, then stopped but still woke up and couldn't get herself back to sleep.
Since then she increasingly needs to be fed during the night. She does seem hungry, although she seems to have enough food during the day, as she is bf 5 times a day and has 3 big meals of solid food, which she loves. I was doing the dream feed at 10.30 but she started to wake up between 9 - 9.30 for that. She then wakes up anytime between 12.30 - 1.30 and again about 3am. She used to sleep through until 7 - 7.30 am but this is now getting earlier, 6.30am this morning. She was on 3 naps a day but has dropped the early evening nap by herself. Yesterday I took her for a walk in her pushchair at 5pm ish and she slept for about 40 minutes, which I thought might help her but she still woke up 3 times in the night. She has always been a short nap - 45 mins max during the day.
Also, I used to feed her downstairs before bringing her upstairs to put her PJs on and put her to bed but she stopped taking a full feed because she was too interested in looking round the room (even though no one else there). So now feed her in her room with light off so no distractions and she falls asleep on me after a full feed. I then put her in her bed fast asleep. I used to put her into bed at 7.30 but since she's dropped the last nap I brought bedtime forward to 7pm.
Here's my routine, all approximate times:
7am - bf
8am - solids
9.30 - nap
10.15 - wake
11.00 - bf
12.00 - solids
1.30 - nap
2.15 - wake
3.00 - bf
4.30 - solids
6.30 - bf
7.00 - bed
9.30 - bf.
Any advice would me much appreciated. Thanks.
