is there a reason for these NW, or have i started AP???

[kirstym]

hello i have tried to look through all posts to find somethinmg similar, but my DS has just turned 8 months, and has started to wake through through the night, and now i am beginning to see a little pattern emerging!
He is on a 4 hour EASY starting at 7 or 7.30 is on 3 small meals a day, and he is an angel/textbook baby i find his cues really easy to spot, but recently he has started to wake 3 hours after we lay him down to bed at night, at first he had a little wind still, but this is not always the case.
and then he wakes anytime between 4-5am, i let him talk to himself for a while, but then i go in pick him up and he falls asleep on me, whilst sitting in the chair. at first i gave him a few ozs of milk and then he went straight back to sleep, but then in the morning wont take all his milk, so i put this down to his NW not being hungry.
last night never had any milk, but woke up at 2, 4  just picked him up and cuddled him and then layed him down in his cot. he then woke up at 6.30 heard him and he fell back to sleep on his own.

really sorry if im rambling! before i could lay him down right on cue and he would go to sleep now at nap times, he gets a bit whingy?
i just think that maybe i have started AP or he wakes up out of habit because he knows that he gets a cuddle!

please i would like to know what i can do so he sleeps through the night again, and if what i am doing is wrong!  thank you

[julesiew78]

I'm very new to BW so I'm not totally sure--but I do know that around 9 mos (give or take a few weeks) they go through a sleep regression--basically it is due to all the new developmental milestones they are achieving. 

have you tried going in there and just putting a hand on his back to see if he will resettle?

[kirstym]

hi thankyou for your reply i reallyu appreciate the advice...

his routine is something like this...

E 7.00  breakfast at 8.00
A
S 9.00 - 9.30  naps for 1.5 hours
E 11      lunch at about 12 -12.30
A
S 1.00-1.30   naps for 1.5 hours
E 3.00
A
S 5.00  catnap 30 mins  sometimes he doesnt want to go to sleep at this naptime as his afternoon nap is sometimes later or he just doesnt want to go for his catnap!

tea at 5-5.30 depending on catnap.
E 7.00

then bed!

hope this helps, thankyou.

[kirstym]

hi thank you for the links they look very useful.
so you think that increasing his A time between his two naps and dropping the catnap, he should break the pattern of NW?
last night he never wanted a catnap and he only woke at 10pm due to having a little bit of wind! so i think today i will try and extend his A time and see what happens.

thank you

[kirstym]

hi ok this is how it has gone so far!
if he has a cat nap/ or not he wakes any way! his day followed as usual yesterday but had 1/2 extra sleep in the morning nap i think this was due to his morning NW.
last night he woke up at 2.30am and was talikng to himself for about 45 mins and then fell back to sleep, the only thing i know now is that these NW are not due to hunger, as the last 5 nights he has had no milk.
the times that he has woken up ive picked him up and he has had the tiniest bit of wind! could this be why his waking? or do you think its habit??
i wish i could figure out why these NW keep happening! he is not hungry? he isnt wet enough to wake him?......... please anymore thoughts x

[kirstym]

hi i know sometimes he just wakes up talks to himself and goes back to sleeo like last night!
this morning he woke up at 6.30 ish and i fed him at 7 but he went to sleep at 9 so 2.5 hours, im trying to let him go 3 hours so then i start transition to 3 bottles! but most of the time he handles 2.5-3 hours A time.

HTH