Chunks of sleep getting shorter...

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My 8 week old wakes with increasing frequency through the night. She goes to bed about 8.30, and then sleeps in three chunks: roughly speaking it works out at 4.5 hours, 2.5 hours and 2 hours.

We have blackout blinds so it's not the light waking her.

Any tips to stretch out those last chunks of sleep, or joy of joys blend them into one?

Think this is very normal in a baby this young. Both of mine did this. in fact I would think a cumulative total of 9 hours sleep a night is brilliant at this age. I assume she is feeding each time? Once she stops getting hungry she should just drop one of the feeds and merge two periods. My two both dropped the middle one first.

Yes, I'm not complaining (too much!) getting a total of 9 hours.

She is feeding each time, but doesn't always finish her feed. At some point did your LOs just not wake in the middle, or did they wake but not want feeding?

They just stopped waking. I was breast feeding so couldn't tell if they started taking less before.
Both mine started sleeping through early enough 6 weeks and 3 months, but took a bit longer for it to happen everynight. Still by 4 months they were both night weaned. I think your DD is doing brilliantly. Good stints of sleeping and waking for feeds and going back down...textbook. hopefully she'll start stretching the times out a bit, you might find she'll only wake twice soon but her 1st time will be a bit later and her last one a bit earlier than they are now.

Sounds like she is doing really well. But you could try a dream feed- pick her up for a feed (even if she's asleep, but keep things as calm as poss) some time between 10 and 11 before you go to bed. The idea is that it keeps them going til a bit later in the night. It worked for me and for lots of people I know.

Good luck.

A dreamfeed might work (it seems to for everyone else) but for some reason it just made our 10 week old wake more frequently so we dropped it again.
We're currently on about 5 hours, 3 hours, 1 hour (although we had a 7 hour stretch a few nights ago and I got very excited.)

Yes, bless her, she's doing well. She doesn't nap well during the day so I'm trying to maximise good night sleep (for me too, obviously! )

Will try a dream feed, although waking a sleeping baby is a terrifying prospect! She has reflux, so feeding usually involves writhing and crying, maybe feeding her when she's drowsy might help.

Thanks for the tip!