6 month fussy going to bed

[gpmom]

Miss Daisy is just over 6 months old.  She is a great sleeper for the mot part but the last few days she has been difficult to put down at bed time.  Usually for naps she is asleep within about 3 minutes after I put her in her crib.  At night we usually feed her half of her last bottle in bed and she is out for the night.  The last 2 nights however she has been a little fussy.  She will fall asleep for about 3 minutes then wake.  Not really angry but whimpering.  I get her back to sleep and same thing.  Any ideas?  I know it is not ideal to feed her to sleep, but since she knows how to fall asleep on her own we did not think this was a big problem.  She also gave up her cat nap a few weeks ago, but here is our schedule.

Wake and eat at 7
Solids 830
sleep 9
wake and eat 11
Solids 1230
Sleep 120
wake and eat 3
solids 5
bath and wind down
bottle at 630-7 sleep.
df at 930-10

She is bf but I am losing my supply so 3 is our last bf then she gets a bottle.  She does not care what it is as long as it is food.
Any ideas would be great.

[rob1lu2]

Hi Joan!

When you say fussy and whimpering, do you mean mantra crying? Is she straight up crying? Is she screaming? What do you do? How long do you let her go? When you say thta you get her back to sleep, what do you mean? How do you do it?

Sorry for all the questions, but the more info we have the easier it is to help you!

Thanks!
Lu

[gpmom]

I do not think it is mantra.  She pulls at her balnkies and pulls out her soother.  She has a blankie on her face when she sleeps and tugs at it. 
To get her to sleep I pick her up and give her a burp thinking that maybe that is what she wants.  Sometimes she burps and sometimes she doesn't.  I lay her back and turn on her aquarium and leave.  Sometimes I do this a few times before she drifts.  The first night she did this she was asleep for an hour then woke and would not fall asleep again.  Took quite some time to get her to drift off.

Thanks for your help Lu.

[mom_2_2]

My son is 6.5 months old and for the last 10-14 days he has also been fussy at bedtime.  He usually cries for about 45 minutes before going to sleep.  He quiets when I go in and pick him up and cries again as soon as I walk out of the room.  However, he's fine at naptimes.  I don't understand what's going on or what to do?  Have you had any luck figuring this out?

[rob1lu2]

Hi Joan,

Sorry it took me a while to get back to you. I've been out of town for a week!

Anyway, how has Miss Daisy been doing? Still fussy at night?

Do you think it's possible that she is UT? Since she dropped the cat nap, she may be ready for slightly longer A times. This can be tricky b/c you don't want to extend them too quickly. Sometimes when they wake and can't fall asleep again it can be attributed to that.

Is anything developmental going on?

Lu