Hi. Looking for help to save my sanity as sleep deprivation is killing me!
My 19 week old was heading in the right direction with her sleep about a month ago - we even had 2 nights of 7-7 with only a couple of dummy replacements but since then she continues to settle well at bedtime (approx 7pm) and sleep soundly until midnight/1am ish but is then unsettled for the rest of the night. Frequent wakings, sometimes settles with dummy then awake again 30 mins to an hour later, seems to be grunting/straining but this stops when we hold her. We've been holding off on a bottle until 3am ish as that's when she was having one before but she rarely sleeps longer than another hour after this feed too.
She has what I think is a pretty decent routine. Up at 7, 3 naps a day (1st and 2nd approx 1.5/2 hours in length and 3rd approx 45 mins) following wake windows of approx 1.5/2hrs in between. She has always fussed over her bottles, used to take hour-90 mins to feed her but GP thinks silent reflux so she's now on lansoprazole and she is taking her bottles better.
Soooo... I guess what I asking is, is the unsettled-ness after midnight normal behaviour, sign of 4 month sleep regression or something else entirely?! And when will it end??!