wakes at night after 1 sleep cycle????

[cmckenna]

Hi,

My 11 week old DD wakes like clockwork after 1 sleep cycle for her nighttime sleep.  Her naps are perfect.  I have tried bedtimes ranging from 6:30pm to 8:00pm and she still wakes exactly 45mins later.  She goes down easy the first time but is very difficult to get down after that.  Any ideas as to what might be causing the problem?  She is on a 3hr easy starting at 8am with 3 naps.  Her last nap of the day is between 1hr to 1hr and 15mins usually ending around 5:15 or 5:30pm.

[erinsmum36]

if bedtime is roughly 12 hours after get up time, the last nap should in my experience finish about 1.5 hours before bedtime. If you then follow with a set routine (mine LO has naked kick time for 10 mins etc whilst I run her bath, then bath, dress, feed and bed. I start that around 6 and aim to be putting her in the cot at 7. sometimes she is still too tired to eat fully even after the nap, so that latest is 7. I also find if she is too tired when she goes down, we get more phantom crying etc in the first 1.5 hours

Funnily enough she also woke 1.5 hours after bedtime last night - cried hard so I went in and to me it had all the appearaances of a bad dream! As soon as she saw me and I let her suck on a dummy (only has it on odd occasions) she went back to sleep - maybe your LO dreams too!
If it is regular lick clockwork, you may want to try the wake to sleep method. Gently stir LO about 40 mins into his sleep - you know best how much or little to stir him, so that he responds (movemement or a noise) without actually waking him...hope it helps..