Early morning brief wakings

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Hi all

My LO is 6m and was sleeping through the night a couple of weeks back, for about a week but has reverted back to waking up briefly at 3:30 every night. Sometimes she then sleeps till 6:30 or sometimes she wakes once or twice more in between

She goes to sleep well. Bottle bath books then bed in that order, no rocking or accompanying required. She has a dummy and white noise

Then when she wakes in the night I go in after a couple of mins and giver her a couple sucks of water and her dummy if it has fallen out and she rolls over and goes back to sleep.

Any advice how to cut this out? Is it to do with naps in the day? She's in the verge of crawling, we started solids a few weeks ago but otherwise she's happy and jolly, no teething issues or issues going down for naps etc.

I would not give her a drink. If she is well hydrated and fed in the daytime then drinks in the night should not be needed. Especially if it's just a couple of ducks of water.

I'd also suggest you do all the swttling in the cot, not picking baby up. So this may well just be a dummy reinsert and that's it.

Baby can learn to do their own dummy reinserts from about 8-10 months old, as fine motor skills develop. But even then, you will need to ensure baby can find the dummy. Even if baby can put it in themself, they are usually not good at searching for a lost dummy. So think if ways to make dumny easy to find.

In the mean time, I kept theory next to my bed until dummy inserts weren't needed. Just because that makes life infinitely easier for me.