Back again, Ok past 2 weeks we have been packing getting ready to move to a new place. And along with starting solids, sitting, teething, babbling alot lately and getting up on all fours - which is alot of developemental milestones - Nightwakings have occured (2-3 a night mostly early morning 3,4,5am never same times though), early wake ups and the naps are just getting shorter. LO is almost 7mo, EBF, on 4 hour EASY and awake time approx 2 hours (1. is this aawake time too short for this age?) She can fall asleep independantly.
Ok I have been a little stressed by move and all its worries, and lack of sleep but I am feeling alot better now. I guess I have also resorted to just getting her up from short naps (and early wakings - even though I try to soothe her in crib - she just rasberries or starts to really cry and I cave and just feed her) when she wakes as I havent had the stamina to do pu/pd as I just cant deal with the crying right now and with moving to a new house do not want to put even more stress on either one of us. There is alot of change going on right now and to top it off DP is working late every night and hardly ever at home - and I am sure LO is aware of this - no real daddy time anymore. Unfortunately things out of our control and this is just the way it has to be right now.
For the past 3 nights she has slept 19:00 - 5:00am (which I am not complaining about - infact its great) but I cant get her to go back to sleep after that as I have resorted to feeding her at 5am.
So my questions if anyone can help is
1. Do I try to soothe her from 5 - 7am so we can start day then? (sometimes it works most days it doesnt - its winter here now and totally dark when she does wake and very cold
) or wait till we in new place? which I am sure will also come with its aclimatising problems.
2. I dont dreamfeed so should I still feed her @ 5am? she does seem hungry
3. What should I do to get to her to go back to sleep for this early wake up and short naps - pu/pd riles her up even more, talking sofly and reassuring her sometimes works for a few minutes then when I leave she works herself up into a frenzy - its like she has forgotten to self soothe although she knows how to (I have also recently been leaving one arm out of swaddle - which she flails wildly while trying to settle and I think this keeps her awake - obviously. But when I swaddle with both arms she just wriggles them loose - like houdini)
I have been doing exaclty the same windown I have been doing for ages but sometimes she fights it? why could this be? to little awake time. I have tried extending it by 10-15minutes but when she wakes at such weird hours it throws everything out the window. So sometimes feeds are (again) just prior to falling asleep - I dont feed her to sleep. How do I rectify that?
I jsut need some help please ( I am coping but just wish her sleep was better- she is a very happy baby - angel textbook and I hope this doesnt change it). Or should I just wait it out till we are in new place and pray for the best. We are moving in tomorrow - then the unpacking begins. (I should also mention that we temporarily moving in with great grand mother (for 3-5 months), 3 dogs and uncle, wife, 2 loud teenage boys with boom boxes and 1 x dog who live in the back of the house, and we have 2 x cats - how am I going to survive?
And DP going out of town for a week the day after we move in, then back for a week and on a trip again for 4 days after that. I dont want to do any accidental parenting especially after we have come so far with BW.
Please just tell me where to start or what to tackle first. Any advice on moving welcome too and how to adjust - not for me, maybe a little
but mostly for LO.
Any and all suggestions welcome..
TIA
Robyn
