4month old and wakes 1 hour after going down

[tutu]

Hi -

My 4month old has been on an EASY schedule for 5 days, and she's become a much more predictable baby.   (Prior to EASY she was eating on demand, with irregular naps.)  Her current daytime schedule looks like this:

Wakeup between 6am-7am
Eat: 7
Sleep: 9:10-11:00 (she wakes up after 30-40 minutes to sleep and we have to sss/pat and/or pu/pd to extend the nap)
Eat: 11
Sleep: 1:30-3:00 (she wakes up after 30-40 minutes of sleep and we have to sss/pat and/or pu/pd to extend the nap)
Eat: 5:15pm
Bath: 6:00
Eat: 6:45pm
Sleep: 7:15pm
(Sometimes she will catnap, but it's not a guarantee).

For the first few nights, she had been sleeping pretty well until her next feeding at 11:30pm.  But she has a tendency to wake up approximately 1 hour after we put her down.  (This has been a habit of hers even before EASY.)  Sometimes she'll settle back down immediately, and other times it takes hours.  Last night we set a record at 3.5hours! She woke up at 8:30pm, I fed her at 10:00pm and she didn't fall back to sleep until 12:15am.  The whole time I was sss/pat and PU/PD.  It's time to figure out what the problem could be!  I breastfeed exclusively, both breasts for each feeding.  The number of wakes/night varies, but approximately 2 or 3 times.  She does not take a pacifier but she does sleep with a blanket.

Why is she waking 1 hour after we put her down? 

Please please advise! 

Thank you.

[bug_blues70]

Tutu, I think your LO is probably OT after going from 3 to 7 without a nap. In your shoes, I'd try to make sure to get that CN in using sh/pat, pu/pd or even APOP if necessary.

And as I said in the other post I wrote to you about 40 minute naps, I think it's super important to figure out if it's a 30 min nap (OT) or a 40-45 min nap (UT). My guess would be OT b/c more than 2 hours a-time is a lot for a 4 month old. And if she has a short nap - anything less than an hour - the following a-time should really be shorter than normal b/c she won't be as rested.

Also, is she going from 11-5 without eating? This could be causing NW from hunger and/or waking from naps due to hunger. It also may be why she refuses to go down for a CN.

[empowered mama]

Agree with PP about OT being the cause for the NWs.  If your LO refuses to catnap, you might do well to bring bedtime up a bit to prevent her from getting really OT.

[hatshetsut]

My DD has done the same thing ever since she was tiny. My first DD was really bad about evening wakings until she was 7 months old. I wish I had the answer, and if you find one please let me know!