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Yet another 'why is my lo waking at 4am?' thread

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cheapdate · 28/11/2008 07:11

dd (10 months) has settled into a routine of going to bed between 7 and 8, waking once for a feed at around 3 - 4 am and then back to sleep until 7ish. She is breastfed to sleep. When she is teething, she can go back to waking as often as every two hours but each time a tooth appears she will return to the normal night-time routine with no problems. However, lately she has started to add in a feed at around midnight and then she wakes at 330 - 4ish for up to 3 hours before going back to bed for another 3 hours, then up for the day! This doesn't happen every night, for example this week it has been every other night.

As the night-time routine has settled, the daytime has also fallen into a pattern. On a normal day, dd will wake at around 7 then once she has been up for 3 hours she will nap for 2. She used to also nap in the afternoon but has dropped this one and doesn't show any signs of tiredness again until evening (believe me I have tried everything to get her to sleep in the afternoon but she just doesn't seem to be tired.) I have tried waking her after just one hour in the morning to see if she would nap later, but that just resulted in a fed up baby and still no afternoon nap.

I would be interested to know if anyone else has had a similar experience and how you dealt with it, or if anyone has any ideas on what might be causing these early wakings? The main problem for me is that I have always found it impossible to sleep n the day and now that dd is back in her cot (she was up at 4 and has just gone back to sleep) I am awake for the day and mumsnetting in bed rather than catching up on my sleep!

Help!!

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cheapdate · 28/11/2008 09:58
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rubyslippersisappearinginpanto · 28/11/2008 10:00

do wake to sleep if she is waking at exactly 4 am every morning

if you search the archives there are quite a few threads on it

the premise is that you wake them an hour before their usual wake up (so 3 am for you) and this disrupts their old sleep cycle

i have done it when DS was about a year old and it worked

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cheapdate · 28/11/2008 10:25

thanks Ruby, I had considered that but it's not every night so I wasn't sure if it would work if she not consistently waking at the same time night after night?

Thinking about it, over the past week or two the only time the early waking has happend is on nights when she has had a bath before bed. Wonder if there's a connection? although I can't think why that would affect her [hmmm]

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