My little girl is 8.5 months and has always woken once or twice a night for a feed, but now is staying awake for hours and being really unhappy, whereas perviously even if she was awake after a feed she just played and talked to her self and at worse grizzled a bit before self settling. She's been getting slowly worse over the last month (has cut three teeth this month and been really miserable for one to two nights with each) but at the moment has no teeth coming through and i've had 4 nights in a row now where she is up a total of 3.5 hours each night. And am starting to feel really overwhelmed, i have a three year old so can't catch up on any sleep in the day.
She is starting to crawl, has mastered commando crawling this week and is so close to getting the idea of regular crawling. No seperation anxiety at all yet.
Her standard routien is approx:
Awake: 7:00
Breastfed: 7:00
Solids: 8:00
Nap: 9:45-11:45
Bf: 12:00
Solids: 1:00
Nap: 2:30-4:00
Solids: 4:30-5:00
Bf: 6:30
Bed: 7:30
I could push out her afternoon awake time easily but then she's be out of wacck for bedtime. The morning awake time i could push out to three hours but any longer and she gets really overtired. If we've had a day where she gets pushed out and doesn't get much sleep then she'll wake up three or four times a night rather than the usual twice.
She also seems to have a lot of gas at night, so am wondering if there is a chance she's reacting to cows milk in her rice ceral. She has been eating much more solids this month too,. And drinking water in a cup with soilds.
Any suggestions very welcome!
