9 1/2 month old waking at 4am every morning

[Grufter]

Hi there,

My LO has always been a good sleeper at night, we recently had a few problems with early morning WU's but resolved that issue...then recently we have had a lot of problems with teeth! LO now has seven in total so it's been a rough few weeks. This week LO has started to wake at 4am and this has been for four nights in a row. We used the wake to sleep method when LO was six months and even though it worked for the first few nights, LO started to wake even earlier for a week or so until he settled back into routine. Can anybody suggest what to do? LO was not crying when he woke this morning but wide awake it took and hour to get him back off.

Do you suggest using wake to sleep or an alternative method? Current routine is:

6 - 6.30 WAKE and play in cot.
6.45 - milk
8.30 - breakfast
9.15 - 9.30 - Sleep for 1 & 1/2 hours approx.
12 - lunch
1.30- 2 - sleep for 1 hour approx
3 - milk
5.30 - dinner
7 - bath, book and milk
7.30 - bed

Thanks

xx

[ZacsMumme]

I think your LO may need an A time increase in the AM to balance out the day Those EW/NW sounds like UT, and it looks like you could be in a bit of an UT/OT loop

I would try adding a touch more A in the morning and between naps and keep BT the same so all the A times are closer to 3-3.5hrs

What do you think?

[Grufter]

Hey,

Thanks for the advice. I agree, in the morning LO usually goes up to 3.5 hours max but not always, so I'll stretch out the A time for him and see what happens. I think I may be putting him down too soon in the afternoon and that seems to be the problem! Typically after writing this LO went from 7.30pm - 6.30am straight through, maybe that was a fluke?

I put him down just over 3.5 hours this morning so will stretch out the afternoon A and will let you know how we get on

Thanks x

[ZacsMumme]

Good luck, sometime it can be tough stretching them, just do 10-15 min increases every few days if he struggles with the extra time!