Wonder if anyone can help with DD2? Just before her first Birthday she started waking in the night. I thought it was teething at first, a bit of SA maybe but 4 weeks on I'm still having the same problem! She wakes at about 1 /2am for almost 2 hours. I've tried WIWO, shush pat, and even resorted to sleeping on the floor to shush her to sleep! After two weeks of doing this, I tried feeding her and to my surprise she took it and would go straight back to sleep. We did this for a week (growth spurt I thought) but one night she fed and still wouldn't settle back. Another night she went to feed but gagged on the bottle and refused it so we were back to another 2 hour long NW. If she wakes at 4, I have no chance of getting her back to sleep and we end up getting up at 6. I have a 5 year old just started school so I don't like DD2 waking her up at 4am.
She has always been a brilliant sleeper, goes to sleep independently, always put to sleep awake and never falls asleep having a feed. Her molars are coming through, I can see one has cut but we've been like this for weeks. We hit a similar rocky patch at 8 months but after a week of going back to having a night feed she just started sleeping through again.
Our easy is: or used to be
A 6:30
E 7:30 breakfast followed by milk
S 9:30 for 30min (I wake)
E 12:00 lunch
S 1/ 1:30 to 3 (sleeps for 1 1/2 to 2hrs
E 2:30/3 milk although she has refused this the last 3 days
E 5:00 dinner
S 7:00 milk and bed
She is moving to one nap I think and today she woke at 7:30 (after a 3am NW for 1 hour) and had her first nap at 12:30. She is going on 2hrs so will wake soon and hope for the best tonight!
I can't work out if its developmental, a routine tweak needed or if I've just rushed in too quickly causing her to want 'company' in the middle of the night! Last night I let her cry for about 5 min before going in to settle her, she calmed down immediately but started again when I left. I'm shattered and need some rest especially with a demanding 5 year old! Any help muchly appreciated.
