My 4.5 month old daughter is waking up every hour. She's slept through the night from about 12 weeks. Her routine is as follows, breastfeed at 6, bath 6.30, top up bottle feed (90mls formula) at 7, sleep at 7.30, wake up at 6am breast feed. She breastfeeds 3 hourly during the day, but has recently been stretching her feeds to 3.5 hourly. I am back at work so she has been going to my mother's from around 10 until 5, where she has expressed breast milk. Until recently (3 weeks ago) she would stir in the night, but go back to sleep without any intervention on my part, but since we returned from a family holiday where she slept in the bed with us, she stirs but can't go back to sleep unless I go to her and give her a few sips of water (its very hot here at the moment) or pop her dummy back in. I've tried leaving her, but then she just wakes up fully and needs to be fed before she'll go back down. Sometimes all I need to do is turn her over, or put my hand on her then she settles. That would be fine but she stirs every hour from 12pm, so my sleep is interrupted for 5 minutes every hour, which isn't a lot but, as you all probably know, interrupted sleep patterns turn you into as much of a zombie as no sleep. I'm worried we've fostered a dummy addiction by being too tired to put her back to sleep without it. I know I need to get her off it.
Anyone know what's going on with her? Anyone know what to do to break this cycle of neediness?
