Abby is almost 4 months old and is doing pretty well as far as sleep is concerned - lately she's been up only once at night, and although we are still struggling with 45 minute naps, at least one nap a day is a good long one. I think we're doing great, certainly better than the accidental parenting we were doing with ds at this age!
The one thing she does that I find strange is that after I put her down for the night (aroudn 7:30 or so), she is starting to almost always wake at least a few times between then and df at around 10:30. For instance, last night she woke just before 8, I was busy putting ds to bed and by the time I was done she was back asleep. She woke around 8:30 and I went in to try to calm her, took a while but I was able to put her back down. She woke again around 9ish and I just couldn't get her calmed down and eventually nursed her to get her to go back to bed (still did regular df later on).
She wakes up crying quite hard and gets more and more upset and isn't easily calmed. I don't think it's gas or something like that as it's happened too often. After the df she does great and never wakes up like that - has been going up to 7 hours the last week or so.
Here's a typical day for us, so you can see our whole schedule:
E - wake at 8 and nurse
A -
S - around 9:30
E - wake around 11:30 (if the a.m. nap is the good one) and nurse
A
S - 1:00
A - 2:00 (this is often a shorter nap if the first one was long, so we play a bit before eating)
E - 2:30
S - 3:30
E - 5:00
A -
E - 7:00
S - to bed around 7:30 usually
She goes to sleep on her own in her bed always, no pacifier. I vaguely remember my son doing this early nighttime waking thing - even up until he was 2 or so at least some of the time. Any ideas?
