LO always wakes at 3.30am..

[Jem88]

My LO has just turned 10 months and has always been a bad sleeper, but for the past 2 weeks we've got her down to only 2 NWs, she'll now go to bed between 6.30-7pm and sleep a good 4-5 hours, then wake for a feed around 11.30-12.30am she'll then wake between 3-3.30am for no reason - she hasn't had this feed for about a month and abit now. Is it habit?

I think she's going towards the 2-1 nap, and i'm starting to cat the AM nap short and have her do a long PM nap (I hope..) Do you think it's the 2-1 stage causing her to wake at 3.30am? She doesn't wake for the day at this time, she'll go back to sleep after a few mins until wake up time. x

[Bex09]

Hi, it could well be the 2:1 switch, it can cause all kinds of weird and whacky sleep issues for a while! I doubt it is habit as your DD hasn't been waking at that time since you dropped the feed has she?

It looks like maybe the tweak in routine is what you need.

[Jem88]

It could be the 1-2.. She's currently doing 3hr 40min for the AM nap and sleeping 1.5 hour, and then having a short PM nap, do i need to up her A time before morning nap?

I put her down for her nap as normal this morning but woke her at 45mins, hoping she'd then do a long PM nap.. Came back from my dads (5min walk home) and she hadn't fell asleep but was tired, and fell asleep straight away after 3hr 15mins but then woke up after 30mins crying but wouldn't re-settle. - total nap fail lol.

[Bex09]

Hi how are things going now? Some LOs don't like short am long pm nap and just still refuse or short nap in the pm. This was my DD and so we did long am short pm instead and it worked great for us.