DD won’t fall back to sleep in her own room

[rhaenyra01]

We recently moved DD into her own room and she sleeps really well in there, until it comes to waking for her night feed, then she won’t go back to sleep. When she was in our room in her next 2 me, she’d have a bottle and then be asleep in about 5 minutes. I’ve been holding, rocking, shushing her for 40 minutes and she’s still wide awake. Had the same issue last night and ended up having to take her downstairs for an hour and a half (at 4:30am!) until she got sleepy again.

Does anyone have any ideas why she might not be settling back to sleep all of a sudden? The room is really dark, so I don’t think it can be light keeping her awake, and she sleeps in her cot in there in the daytime.

Might just be a good old fashioned sleep regression. I know the existence of these is debated but I’ve been up every 45 minutes with my otherwise very good sleeping 16 month old tonight and I can see no reason for it. They definitely exist! I wonder if your DD is just having a blip which coincides with moving her… how long has it been now? My advice is not to make any drastic changes, just be hyper focussed on making sure she’s getting the “right” amount of sleep during the day, bed time is as normal and calm as can be, and try and avoid doing anything too differently at night. (In an ideal world you shouldn’t have taken her downstairs yesterday but I appreciate you didn’t do it unless you really had to.) It will pass, I’m sure.

I assume your baby is around 6 months?

My son slept really well for the first 6 months of his life, then a switch was flipped and he was waking hourly. I tried various things but after 2 horrendous months I night weaned him. Sleeping well again after a week.

Definitely make sure naps are the appropriate length.

For us, it was definitely a settling issue where he expected milk in order to go back to sleep. So if you think she doesn't need the feed at night, consider reducing and eventually cutting it.

(This won't work for all babies - you know your child best)

How old is LO @rhaenyra01?

@ReeseWitherfork yeah I did think it could be a sleep regression, I thought I’d avoided the 4 month one that everyone talks about but perhaps this is it?
@UnravellingTheWorld @SiouxsieSiouxStiletto she is 5 and a half months, so we have moved her a couple of weeks earlier than we planned but DP and I were starting to disturb her in the night. She does seem to be sleeping better in the sense that she’s not tossing and turning once she gets to sleep, and we aren’t waking her, but once she’s woken up for her feed it’s so hard to get her to settle again.

This morning she woke, had her bottle, fell asleep straight after it - I held her for a while and she was flat out, all floppy, definitely asleep etc…. Put her down in her cot like I was diffusing a bomb, and she started flipping and rolling and waving her legs up and down! She was just going crazy rolling around in the cot and would not settle unless she was being held. Had to repeat this several times, after about 20 minutes I had sat back down on the daybed in her room and she was fast asleep again so I ended up co-sleeping with her which I really don’t want to do. She never used to do this when she was in the next 2 me, she would just go back to sleep after her bottle.

At a loss for what to do 😓

Could you try sleeping with the sheets to her cot for a couple of nights so that they smell the same as your bed?