rosie is back on the 4am wakings AGAIN!
she's 5 months old on friday.
i can't figure it out so here goes her current routine, including the waking!
4am - wake up, chuckle to self for a while in crib, then call for attention (squeals and shouts - not crying)
4-6am - attempts by me to get her to sleep again but she just lies in her crib talking to herself, playing with her hands and feet!
6am - finally hungry, breastfeed
6-8.30 sleeps
8.30-10am washed, dressed, play with mummy
10am feed
10.30 sleep for half an hour or so
11am- 12.30 activity
12.30 another half hour or so sleep
1pm/1.30ish activity
2pm feed
2.30pm quick sleep
3-4pm activity
4-4.30 another quick sleep
5pm feed
6pm bath and bedtime routine (quiet roll around on a mat in dim room whilst i run a bath, then a bath and massage with soft music on)
7pm feed and then bed
10.30pm dreamfeed
now I know we still have the stupid short naps, and i can't get those extended. I've tried W2S but once she's awake she is just awake, and afterwards she's pretty happy and cheerful so i don't know if she needs longer daytime naps, though i'd like to amalgamate them and have less frequent longer naps if i could.
she's breastfed, usually both sides, but i wait until the first one is empty before going onto the second, which she doesn't usually totally empty, and then i start on that one next time.
she never wakes in the night other than this 4am business, she settles to sleep like a dream after her routine and sleeps right through. she rarely wakes when i get her up for a dreamfeed.
when she does this waking she's perfectly happy, and giggles when you go in to her. she doesn't cry if you leave her again either, btu she will squeal and shout once she's had enough of playing on her own.
like i said i've tried W2S but that i can't seem to get the hang of that one and she just wakes up rather than going back to sleep!
when we are doing A time during the day a lot is play between me and her, reading, singing etc, taking the dog for a walk (she doesn't sleep in the buggy or the car, and if she ever does she wakes as soon as you get home), or she has a little while on the playmat on her tummy, or with her whoozit toy.
quiet play is usually lying on her mat in a dim room, playing with her own feet, or watching the light show on the lullaby machine.
she's not teething yet as far as i know, or anything else important like that.
she does have a pacifier to fall asleep but not at any other time of the day, and she doesn't have it put back in when it falls out, nor has she ever woken up for it.
when i try and get her back to sleep at 4 am i put the lullaby machine on and the pacifier in. this is what worked when she was little and we weaned her off night wakings to sleep through in the first place, but it doesn't seem to be working now. she seems to be wide awake and wanting to play!
HELP ME!! I'm going mad with all this! one week she sleeps all night and i get a good 6-8 hours, the next week i only get 4 hours.