Hello and thank you in advance for any assistance!
We've been doing EASY with my 7.5 month old son since he was 3 weeks.
Over the past few weeks, he's started waking at 5-5.30am and sleeping only very lightly, if at all, between 5 and 7. Sometimes he'll go down for a solid 45 more minutes in that time, but most of the time he's crying every 15-20 minutes. I've read the resource about early waking, and I've tried to deal with every possible cause. While I'm pretty sure he's teething, bonjela and pamol only worked thoroughly one time. I've kept doing it, but I don't feel comfortable giving it to him every morning and either he's developed a tolerance (?) or it's not the issue, because this morning it didn't seem to have any effect!
He's been on two naps for about 1.5 months and he had been going through the night with no wakeups, but lately he's been crying between bedtime and the DF, as well as squawking briefly at at least one point in the late night (between 11pm-4am) - often re-settling himself, though.
Since he started going wonky, I began being a bit more set with naps (per some advice I found when trawling through these forums). So every day, regardless of wake-up time, he goes down at 10am and 3pm for his naps. Most of the time he naps for 1hr 20. It seems to be a little OT, but not too bad, because he usually stirs at the 30 minute mark and then goes back to sleep for another 45-50.
Here is his EASY:
7am - EAT (around 200mls) & ACTIVITY - up for day (he's always waking at least once between 5 and 7, sometimes for long periods without resettling - not waking happy, so I don't think it's too MUCH sleep.)
9am - solids
10am - SLEEP
11.20am - EAT (around 150mls) & ACTIVITY
12.30/1 - solids
2.30 - EAT (around 200mls)
3pm - SLEEP
4.20pm - ACTIVITY
6.15pm - EAT (around 280-300mls)
6.45pm - BEDTIME
9.30pm - DF
He seems mostly happy during the day (except when he gets SA/teething problems at various times and he's often pretty grizzly between his second nap and BT).
He settles beautifully nowadays for all his sleeps. As soon as we start the routine, he's very relaxed and yawny and I think he's asleep within about 2 minutes of me leaving the room!
He is formula fed. He has two bottom teeth (came through at 5 months) and the top two are looming. He can crawl and sit up by himself - these are not new developments.
Can someone please help me fix these early wakings? - 5am is the most depressing time of the day!
Any help GREATLY appreciated!