My 10 month old DS had recently started sleeping through the night. I was thrilled, as he'd been a terrible terrible sleeper for about 7 of those months!
This week, though, he's started waking at 4:30 or so, quite upset. He's obviously trying to get back to sleep but can't manage on his own. If I rock him back to sleep and put him down, he wakes so I've been rocking him back to sleep then bringing him back to my bed so I can at least squeeze in a little more sleep before we begin the day for real...
I know this wakeup isn't because he's done sleeping for the night as he's upset rather than his usual happy chatting. For every other bedtime/wakeup he happily puts himself to sleep with his dummy attached to a comforter toy.
What could be causing this weird time? He hasn't been fed in the night for over a month and doesn't need it when I rock him back to sleep. Could he be cold? The weather is starting to cool so perhaps he could need some more warmth in the early hours?
If you've experienced this I'd love your advice... Thanks!
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10 month 4:30am waking!
Binglesplodge · 27/08/2015 07:49
After 4 am is a really common time for small children to wake ( see all the desperate early waking threads
). It is the time when we move from deeper sleep into a lighter sleep phase, plus are coming to the end of a night sleep naturally. It is also unfortunately much more difficult to resettle small children back to sleep then.
Sorry I don't have any advice ( had an early walker for a long time!) but it is really common. It is also the coldest time of the night as well so guess that might be something worth checking, plus whether anything in the house turns on then noisily ( hot water etc) as again because it is a lighter phase of sleep little ones are more likely to be woken.
Hopefully for you it passes quickly 
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