I'm reallly hoping the collective wisdom of mnwill have some tips for us and DD1 who is almost 5 moths old....
She has always been a pretty good sleeper at night. She started going from about 11pm to 5am on a reasonably regular basis at about 7 weeks. I realised how lucky I was, and prayed it would last!
However... for the last week or so she's been waking anything from 3 times a night to every hour, and it's doing us in! Especially as I'm now working the odd day and will be back properly next month. I'm pretty sure the problem is teething. She's red cheeked and dribbly and likes biting hard on my fingers/her bib etc if they go in her mouth. She's now 21 weeks old.
We have an ok bedtime routine I think. She generally sleeps in the evenings now which is a relatively recent development. She has a bath at about 6.30 then a bottle in her sleeping bag in the nursery with low lighting and then bed. She still tends to go down ok and to sleep during the evening though we may have to go in once or twice to put the dummy back in. We're still dream feeding her at about 1030-11pm as we've found that if we don't she wakes for a feed soon after 11 but if we get to her before that we can often dream feed her and put her down again without waking her at all.
But it's after that the problems start... She's often waking at about 3.30 but it can be as early as 0030. She'll generally go back to sleep if we put the dummy in but once she's woken for the first time she seems to wake every hour for the rest of the night. I've tried Ashton & Parsons powder and Teetha which seems to help during the day, and even calpol when she woke the night after her jabs, but nothing seems to make any difference.
We don't generally feed her before 7am although there have been a couple of times when we've got desperate and given her her first feed at about 5.30am.
I'm not convinced that the waking is due to hunger as she often doesn't seem that fussed by the first bottle of the day and I would have thought that if she was waking due to hunger she wouldn't settle with just the dummy? Even if it is only for an hour....
She's definitely not taking, or seeming to want, extra food during the day.
Sorry for the long post, just thought if I'm asking for advice you needed all the information! Only other things are that she has gaviscon in her feeds for reflux and that her final feed is hingry baby formula. She has 5 feeds a day. She was mix fed for the first 12 weeks so has been on formula for a while, so it's not that.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions you might have!
Nemo