would you wake 3 mo up at 7am?

[StarMeKitten]

My 14wo DD2 has started an annoying habit of waking every night at about 2am and taking hours to settle. I don't think it's hunger as when you go in she is smiling and wanting to play. I did feed her after an hour of her been up last night but she still didn't settle. She eventually settled about an hour after that so I'd been up about 2 hours with her.

The problem then is my 3yo is up at 7am and DD2 is still asleep catching up on her missed sleep. Am considering waking her at 7am just so she doesn't have the opportunity to catch up in a morning and hoping that it will improve the night. But it might just be pointless - opinions please

Yes I do and I think you are ruggt-after a few days she will stop the long night wak I ngs.

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Yes I used to when I was doing a 7-7 routine at that age to keep the test of the feeds/sleeps on track

I would say no - I think the night waking is linked to development and we just have to ride it out. If you wake her you may just end up with an overtired grumpy mummy baby. My 5 month old goes through periods of doing the same but my noisy three year old generally wakes her at 6am and I have to get a very grumpy baby back to sleep by 8ish. I wish she slept through that!

Our 15 month DD did this from 4 months onwards. It was pretty much every night from 4-6 months and them she has gone through phases of doing it ever since. Exactly like you say she's generally wide awake for bang on 2 hours before she gets tired again and goes back to sleep. I would love tell you we found a solution but unfortunately we didn't and still haven't. We just accept that it's her nature to do it and we go to bed early and take it in turns to get up with her for the 2 hours. It's without doubt utterly shit and exhausting but it won't be forever.

I would wake her, try and break the cycle somehow

I was going to say NO! What the hell are you thinking??? But then I calmed down and actually read your post

Sounds like it's got to be worth a try, and it certainly won't hurt anyone.

Thank you for your replies. As the overwhelming majority say wake at 7am I'm going to test it in the morning!