11 wo waking every hour after df

[aidenmc]

Hi ladies.  For the last two nights ds has been waking every hour after the df, 3 nights ago he slept 6 hours after no pm naps and then proceeded to wake every hour after . I am going on about 2 hours sleep a night and this can't continue. He is a gassy baby and It think this is part of the problem. For some reason he just can't settle. Usually he will go back down okay and he definitely looks like he wants to sleep but then wakes 1/2 hour to 45 minutes later.

I am wondering if there is anything else at play besides gas. WE usually have short naps (45 minutes) in the day but yesterday I got two longer ones in. However his catnap was short and he didn't go down earlier than his usual bedtime so was probably OT by bedtime.

Here was our day noting that the previous night was pretty rough too and he was quite tired yesterday:

7:00 - half awake and flayling around
7:30 got up
S 8:30-9:15
E 9:15 but very little
A
S10:12-12:00 (extended with httj)
E 12:00...to 12:45 gassy
A
S1:20-3:00
E 3:00
A
S 4:20-4:50
E 5:00 few minutes
A
S 7:00 was fussy by 5:40 and took him upstairs. Took a long time to feed and settle
NW10:15 E 9this is normal for him)Dh gave bottle of ebm, wouldn't settle, or finish bottle - very gassy. I took over bf'd a little asleep by 10:45
NW- can't exactly remember but basically once in every hour. I got him back down sometimes with soother and rewrapping his swaddle and patting, others I had to pick him up.
Fed at 12:30 - he seemed hungry and his df wasn't big
Fed at 3 something as desperate - dh was trying to settle but he was escalating
Finally brought him into bed at 4:20 as exhausted - he continued to grunt and wiggle the rest of the morning.
Woke at 7:00

I have another similar post in the general sleep area but it's the nights that are killing me. He is not a good feeder - comes off the boob when has any trapped wind and won't go back on so feeding is erratic although I am trying block feeding. BEcause of feeding problems and short naps (and now my exhaustion) we don't have a consistent EASY although I am trying to teach him to settle on his own, but it is impossible when he is OT.

He generally does not settle well after the first night feed (after the df).

Please please, any help would be greatly appreciated!

[Colin Macs Mom]

I never did a DF with Colin - it made him wake far more than if we didn't do it. That happens with some LOs - the DF messes with their sleep cycles. If it's not working for you then don't do it

[aidenmc]

Thanks ladies. I was a little unclear. He always wakes sometime  around 10pm for a feed (I just call it a df as that is the timing of that one). Occasionally is he sleeps longer we let him. Room is very dark and we have white noise for falling asleep, however, it only lasts 45 minutes which is kind of annoying. I often reset it to go through the 45 minute mark but that doesn't seem to change much.

I am pretty mindful of his A times. On those occasions when he goes to sleep after longer than 1hr to 1hr20 is when he takes longer to fall asleep ifkwim. At bedtime, I try to get him down even earlier than 7 on low sleep days or when the last nap ends early but he doesn't seem to  be able to do that much.

Last night he woke and fed at 9:30(right back to sleep, then 12:15-(settled by 1:15) up at 2 till 3:15 then up at 4 - brought him into bed where he settled for about an hour then started grunting and kicking and pushing with his legs until about 6. Changed him then and discovered a poop - think it had just happened.

Anyway, after a day of poor naps getting ready for another loooonng night  .

[aidenmc]

Hi Jane. Last night was better thankfully: woke at 1020 settled by 11:45 due to wind then woke at 3 then 530 then 6:40 (had a bm). Not sure if it was because I just got a miracle blanket which I put him in for bed....

The crib is raised but I think I might change the white noise to somethings that runs all the time. On a couple of naps i think he woke just after the noise turned off.  Wish I had though about the time limit when i bought it. We used white noise for ds 1 and 2 and it went all night but the machine eventually broke.  Anyway, fingers crossed for tonight!