Currently bf and co-sleeping with my nearly 4 month old DS (didnt intend to, just turned out that way)
got quite a good bedtime routine, and he goes down pretty much bang on 7pm every night....only to wake up about 40 mins later. very very occasionally he will sleep for longer and once or twice has gone an hour, and even 2 hours (this has only happened about 3 times i think)
does this mean that once he goes through one sleep cycle he wakes up fully and doesnt know how to get himself back to sleep?
whenever he wakes up in the night (regularly) i usually feed him and he is happy to go back to sleep. is this the problem? hes pretty happy to go back to sleep as long as he is next to me in bed and its not really too much of a problem that he wakes so much...
has anyone else been through this and have any advice for me?
its becoming a bit of a problem because it is causing a bit of friction within my marriage, mainly because of my being in bed with him by 8pm. i go to him the minute he wakes up and feed/rock him back to sleep but the second i put him down he wakes up again. DH has started to moan that he never sees me as i'm in bed for 8pm, we have no evenings together etc. so if i could just get him to sleep for a little longer on his own...
any advice/words of wisdom greatly appreciated!