Help! 12 week old wa,king every 1.5 hours at night!

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My 12 week old has been waking very frequently at night for the past couple of weeks. She generally goes to bed around 8pm and initially sleeps for anything up to 5 hours, but then she wakes every hour and a half before getting up for the day at 6am. She used to wake only twice a night, and although I feed her when she wakes (quickest way of getting her back to sleep so I can go back to sleep) she rarely has much, and I'm fairly sure she's not waking due to hunger.

She's breast fed and sleeps in her own room.

Any advice about how to make her wake less frequently?

Ok, so tonight I put her to bed asleep at 8pm and she's so far woken at 10pm, 1am, 2:30am and 3:30am.

Any advice gratefully received!

Hi, no advice really but sat here feeding my 14 wk old who is doing exactly the same re sleep. Also have 2 friends with babies same age who are also doing the same... An age thing? I'm EBF but other two are on formula.... Killer isn't it? Are you able to get a rest during the day?

Thanks! Nice to know I'm not alone (up again at 4;45...). Let's hope it's a short phase - can't stand much more sleep deprivation! Her naps during the day have gone downhill too. - past two days she's only had an hour in the morning and half an hour in the afternoon.

What happens if you just leave her?

She cries! Longest I've left her is 10mins - she has very occasionally gone back to sleep, but in general she just gets more and more worked up. Perhaps I should leave her longer?

The way I'm doing it is to try and go to bed as soon as DS3 does and then at least I can have, if lucky, 3 hrs at one go. Then I've just been going with it when all the waking starts, usually end up co sleeping. I know friends who have left their babies to cry a bit but I think 3 months is still quite tiny, plus I'm too much of a softie! Good luck and hope you manage to get a rest today!

I know friends who have found the no cry sleep solution book useful. Can't remember author .... Brain dead from lack of sleep!

Thanks! I've just experimented with pick-up-put-down for her morning nap, which worked after quite a lot of picking up and putting down and ten mins of hysterics (her, not me!). Not sure if that'll work at night though as it risks waking dh and the neighbours! Thing is, I'm fairly sure that she's not always hungry when she wakes in the night, so I'm keen not to continue feeding her to sleep - she sometimes only has a couple of mins before settling.

not sure how you manage to do it with 3 dcs!

I have a 6 month old that wakes every hr on the hr from 12 and has done this since birth! (probably has got worse since he hit 4 months) I have no idea why he wakes and have tried everything including a cranial osteopath but nothing has worked. He has plenty of food in the day and water through the night. Im at a loss what else to do and have come to the conclusion that this is the way its going to be! Its nice to know its just not my baby.

If it's any consolation my ds1&2 were like this and now they're 5&7 and brilliant sleepers. We started getting solid nights from about 2 yrs onwards. It passes, it's just a case of surviving until then! I tried most things, read most of the books, but not convinced anything really worked. Plus tried controlled crying and hated it, them and me! I just nap whenever I can and try not to think about it. Getting out of the house really helps too.

Just read that back.... Meant most nights from age 2 undisturbed.... 7-7!

Have you got a sling? They can help, I just get out the house and do stuff and if Ds3 sleeps, he sleeps and if he doesn't, he doesn't. I found staying in and getting stressed over naps totally soul destroying! Then I started to question everything I was doing, should I stop breast feeding, be following a different routine etc.. There is no right way and they all get there in the end.

Not tried a sling but thought it would give me back trouble? He's much easier to cope with when im out and about as he has other things to occupy his mind and he sleeps without the ongoing battle! The thought of him sleeping 7-7 sounds bliss....... hope its sooner rather than later. Ive tried the cc too but couldnt bare to hear him so upset as he gets in such a state.

Sling wise I've got an Ergo, expensive but worth it's weight in gold. It's like a ruck sack with most of the weight carried around the hips. American but got it online. HTH