Hi, hopefully this is the right place!
My little boy is 23 weeks old today and over the past couple of weeks we are getting regular night wakings, probably every couple of hours through the night.
He's quite a big boy...nearing 20lb and is on 4hr EASY. He goes to bed quite well at 7pm after his last feed of the day, although increasingly after his feed he lays awake in his cot talking to himself, despite showing signs of tiredness before getting ready for bed and his feed. We were doing a dreamfeed at 10.30pm but we have found it is increasingly hard to wake him and he wasn't taking his milk as he was so upset at being woken (due to his slight reflux we are unable just to put the bottle in his mouth to 'dreamfeed') so we decided to drop it and then offer him a feed when he woke up on his own. This has generally worked ok, with him actually wanting a feed around 2.30-3am, where he takes his feed nicely and settles back to sleep well.
Even when we we're doing the dreamfeed, we were still get NW at 1.30, 3.30, 5.30 etc.
He does have a paci which we use to resettle him at night and for his naps.
Part of me wonders if we are in the 3:2 nap transition but he hasn't quite worked it out yet. In the mornings he generally wakes at 6.15ish for the day and can go around 2hr45 a time before his first nap, but I only ever get about 38 mins, I've tinkered with his a time for weeks but that first nap is never longer than 38mins. In some ways I don't mind this too much as we do a lot of morning baby groups and this allows us to get to them. the 2nd nap of the day is a bitore ucessful and we tend to get 1hr 30 to 2hrs on a regular basis now. However he wakes up around 2-2.30 which is too long until bedtime but fitting a catnap in plus enough a time before bed is getting hard. Plus he doesn't always want that nap. The only time this week when he had a good stint of sleep is when he had 4 hours between waking up from his 2nd nap and BT!
do you think the transition could be causing the NW?
Here is a example of an average day for us
WU - 6.15
E 7
Nap 1 -8.50-9.35
E- 11
Nap 2 - 12.15-2.15
E - 3
Catnap - really hard to get in but we are trying to aim for no more than 20-30 mins before 5pm but it's getiin ghard
Bed and final feed - 7
I don't mind him waking up in the night still but it seems crazy that it's every 2 hrs - last night it was 11 30, 1.15, 2.30 (feed), 4.15, 5.30