Please help me come up with a sleep strategy for my 4/5 month old baby.

[beatie]

I'm putting this here as well as in the Sleep forum because I need lots of ideas.

dd2 is 20 weeks old. Fully breastfed. She slept well (11 - 5) until appx 11/12 weeks old. Then she suddenly added a few more wake ups to her night and now wakes at least 4 times between 7pm and 7am. Last night she went to sleep at 7, woke at 9.30, 11.30, 1.30, 3.30, 4.30!! I fed her during each wake up except the 3.30 one when DH rocked her back to sleep.

I assumed her sleep problem was that she needed to suck to go to sleep, so I worked on putting her down for the night awake. She goes down to sleep at 7pm fully awake... and until this week, was going down for a nap that way too.

Now I don't know what to do. She's not hungry when she wakes in the night. She has a pathetic feed and we both drop off to sleep. She doesn't need to suck to get herself to sleep, as I manage to put her down to sleep whilst awake at other times.

So, what is her problem and how do we solve it? DH is on half term this coming week so it's a good time to deal with this as we can both catch up with sleep in the daytime.

Please help!

Is she cold? DS started waking up a lot until we put a thermostatic oil heater in his room and the problem went away.

Beatie - isn't waking up having slept through previously one of the indications that she might be ready for weaning????
Is she fully awake before you go in to her?? Reason I ask is because I used to find that DS used to wake up briefly, but would actually settle himeself after a few minutes - it was me and DH storming in that caused him to fully wake up!

I wouldn't feed her every time she wakes up, try dropping every other feed to start with? agree, maybe a good time to start weaning, a little baby rice, see if that helps?