Any advice appreciated! My five month old girl has been waking in the night for the past few weeks - usually about 3/4am, although it was 11 and 3 last night. She's not hungry, in pain, needing a nappy change - she just wants a chat! However after a short period of chatting she'll get grumpy without attention - so I end up sssshing and rubbing her tummy to sleep, as well as giving the dummy, the whole process can take up to an hour.....
I'd also had some issues with giving her a dummy at night, as she was waking hourly for replugging. Using the pick up put down method I've managed to get her to settle happily for the night without it - however she normally gets it at one of these wakings to get her back to sleep. I've tried PUPD at these wakings but it normally results in much screaming and no sleep....
She still has dummy for day naps, which are a bit all over the place - she can only tolerate approx 90 minutes awake and gets very upset when tired (more screaming!) so I just go with whenever she is tired. She's formula fed every four hours so possibly her sleep and feeding schedules don't really complement each other right now. She's also fond of a catnap, is rocked to sleep with dummy and only sleeps on me or in pram when out and about. Basically naps are a whole different problem but I want to sort the night wakings to give me more energy to concentrate on day sleep!!
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Five month old night time wakings - chatting and dummy use
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Doboopedoo · 06/01/2016 08:14
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