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Getting so frustrated. Baby waking every 40 mins at night.
sydneyrose22:
I don’t understand what’s going on with my baby. He naps during the day fine. He gets through sleep transitions during the day just fine! Then it comes to night time and he wakes up EVERY 40 mins. I can’t figure out if he is OT or UT or what. I’ve been keeping a log for the last week and nothing seems to make a difference. I know he is in the 3-2 transition. I’ve tried keeping the catnap when he has two good naps but then he absolutely will not go to sleep until he has been up for his whole A time, meaning he is up until 845 and then still wakes up a million times at night. I have tried skipping the cat nap and putting him down after an 11 hr day, and he still wakes up a million times at night. I’m losing my mind. If it were up to my husband he would just put him on the other side of the house and let him cry all night. He is almost 6 months adjusted (8 months actual). I do nurse him to sleep at night, but I do that at naps too! So I don’t understand why he can’t sleep more than 40 mins at night.
creations:
How long has it been like this?
Every 40 min sounds like discomfort or pain, is he teething? Any reflux?
Often things such as pain (teething or reflux) are somehow ignored in the day and LOs can still nap through quite a lot of it but night sleep is disturbed.
sydneyrose22:
Its been awhile now. At least two weeks, maybe closer to a month or more. I can’t tell if he is teething. I definitely don’t see anything close to the surface. And he has always had reflux, but hasn’t ever been fussy because of it. He was a preemie and we knew he had reflux because he would desat, but he was a very calm and easy newborn. He used to fall asleep on his own with a binky, but then he started waking up whenever it fell out and then flat out refusing to take it. So with the binky he used to sleep 5-7 hr stretches each night. I will write down yesterday’s EASY, the night actually ended up being a little better, he only woke up 5 times (yes, 5 times is better).
W.U. 8 am (we usually start the day around 730 but we all overslept)
A 2hr20m
S 10:20-11 (had to wake up to go get older kids from school)
A 2hr35
S 1:35-3:35
A 3hr25m
BT 7 pm
NW: 7:40, 8:20, 9, 1, 430, 730
Katet:
Im looking at those wakings 7.40, 8.20 and 9 and excluding them its really 2 night wakings. Which if you BF is very much in 'normal range'
So if you are BF I wonder if he's not in a growth spurt and needing to cluster feed to improve your supply. My cousin had 5 and she used too say she quite enjoyed the 8-10pm time as she had a baby on the breast watching TV as they all seemed to just want to feed lots in that pre 10pm time.
Waking constantly at night was always a sign of fluid in my DS1s ears. He almost never had a true full blown ear infection but enough of a pain from fluid to be unsettled. Since it was viral there was little other than pain meds that solved it. And in my experience its rarely routine issues that cause multiple wakings like that rather discomfort and sucking tends to help ear pain and teething pain thus why they do.
creations:
As well as the ideas previously given it could also be some OT causing those few NWs in the early part of the night, your last A time is longer than the others and perhaps too long for LO at this age? It's an hour more which is significant in a little baby. Maybe try an earlier night, closer to the 2hr 30 length A time and see if that makes any difference.
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