14 week old - Night waking

[Jenn00ot]

I have got a lot of wonderful advice in the past so I thought I would reach out and see if anyone has any suggestions.  My daughter has been on EASY since she was approximately 7 weeks old.  She has always had difficulty with short napping (45 minutes on most days, some days I can get her back to sleep with shush pat).  Lately she is waking up fairly consistently at 2:30 Am and will stay awake for up to an hour and a half.  If i am lucky she will then stay down until her wake up at 6:30.  She goes to bed between 7 and 7:30 without a whole lot of difficulty and has a dream feed at 10-10:30 somewhere in there.  I am feeding her at the 2:30 wake up now a I think that she may be hungry but she is not feeding to sleep.  Last night for example I tried wake to sleep....she was drifting, drifting and then wham 2:30 and she woke right up.  She has always had a hard time getting through the jolts as she is a fairly restless little girl (arms and legs going all the time even when she is not overtired).  Tha later part of yesterday looked like: (I am working on her doing a 3 1/2 hour easy)

E 5:15
A quiet play, bath time, winddown
E top off at 6:45
S by 7:15
Dream feed 10:15
Wake to sleep 2:00
Awake 2:30-4:00
Asleep 4:00-6:30
Eat 6:45
A started wind down at 8:00 and it took her a while to go to sleep
Sleep 8:30- (just heard her sneeze at it is 9:00 so she will probably wake up and I will have to try and put her back down)

Any help, kind words, suggesstions would be appreciated as I dont mind waking at 230 to feed her I just dont think it is good for her to be up so long coupled with the short naps.  I am afraid the overtired monster will be visiting my house very soon. 

[Tweakster]

Hi there, it sounds like OT waking.  Could you post the whole day, with the short naps and everything :-)  Even just past few days.  Is she swaddled at night?  Where is she sleeping?

[Jenn00ot]

Thank you.  I was thinking it might be OT waking.  I would post my EASY routine but right now we have none since I was informed by the pediatrician last night that she thinks that she is teething hence the no napping, drooling, red cheeks, freaking out at nap time as well as overall fussiness and moodiness.  I do swaddle her at night and try to swaddle her at nap times although she is really not happy about it.  She sleeps in her crib for most naps and every night.  Last night was a dream with her sleeping from 7:30 till 5:15 this morning with only a DF but that may have been exhaustion as well as the tylenol.  Any advice on how to get through maintianing some semblance of a routine when baby is teething ( I think it is way tooo early to be teething but what can you do). 

[Tweakster]

Hi there, when teething you really just have to follow their lead and ride it out.  Finn shortens his A time and is a right grump, goes off his bottles, a generally unhappy little mite.  I just let him dictate when and how long he needs/wants to sleep, within reason.  Finn also started teething at 12 weeks and had his first 2 teeth by 20 weeks.  He now has 8 teeth at 8.5 mths lol...and is teething again in a big way, so more on the way.  It happens earlier and goes faster in some bubs. 

With feeding we have often done and do split feeds around naps.  Once the teething is over they usually go back to eating their regular way.

In our house it's ok to use a little APOP to get through, rocking, soothing, whatever we need to do at night and for naps.  When he's not teething we go straight back to routine and independent sleeping, he's good at making the switch up.  I should say that we always try to settle without using APOP BUT we are not afraid to use it if we need to.  It depends on how your LO is and how comfortable you are with accidental parenting.