Can anyone offer any advice?
My now 7 month old was sleeping great at Christmas time when she was around 3 months old (8,9,10 hour stretches of sleep overnight, no feeds). 4 month regression hit then a viral infection and sleep has just progressively got worse.
rough schedule is -
7am - wake up
9.30am - nap (this could be anything from half an hour to hour and a half)
2 to 2 and a half hour wake window
12.30/1pm - nap (mostly 1 hour but if morning nap was only half an hour this nap tends to be longer but sleeping no later than 2pm)
2 hour wake window
4pm - cat nap (30 mins)
3 hour wake window
7.30pm down to sleep.
she contact naps or naps in the pram when out a walk or in the car if we’re out and about. I’ve tried putting her down for naps in the house and it’s religiously 30 mins every time.
She is cuddled to sleep then put into her bed. Wakes up between 40/50 mins later, at the end of the first sleep cycle. After this it’s just a constant wake up, cuddle back to sleep, back in to bed. She could last 10/30/40 mins or wake immediately when she’s put down but it is constant until we go to bed around 11pm when I feed her and she settles then for around 1-3 hours before it starts again. She will sleep
if we take her into bed with us which we obviously don’t want to do but it happens sometimes through the night when we’re so desperate for some sleep, so I don’t think she’s hungry.
We've tried changing to two naps but the 3 and a half/4 hour wake windows are just far too long for her and didn’t make the slightest bit of difference to bed time.
Around 2 months ago, I tried to do a bit of self settling with her. Put her down into bed awake, singing and stroking her face etc. she was getting it straight away. This was working for about 5 nights then it just didn’t and she was inconsolable.
What are we doing wrong? She can connect sleep cycles later on through the night so why is this first half full of false starts and wake ups?
Will welcome any advice.
Thank you!