Hi 👋
Just wanted to find out if anyone has been through the same situation.
For the last week, my 7 and a half month old has started waking up between 4-5am crying. As soon as he is picked up, he falls back to sleep in my arms, I transfer him back to his cot and he wakes up within 5-10 minutes. I repeat this 3/4 times. I then try putting him in my bed with me, and again, he wakes as soon as I put him down. My son is put down at night in his cot and falls asleep independently and will stay in his cot until this point, a few occasional wake ups to replace his dummy but that's it. He literally won't sleep past 4/5am unless he's in my arms, and I'm stood up! Even if I sit down with him, he wakes up 😩
I will note he is trying to drop to three naps. We have been on 4x 30-45 min naps up until the last week (he is a serial cat napper). Some days he still takes 4x cat naps, other days he'll take 3 naps, with one longer nap and 2x 30/45 min naps. Wake windows between 2-3 hours and he starts showing he's tired.
Can someone tell me if this is just a phase? He was previously sleeping right through apart from needing his dummy replaced.
Thank you, from one tired mamma!