Baby just AWAKE during night - argh!!!!

[SleepForTheWeek]

It's been happening for as long as I can remember, maybe since she was 3 months old, and I kept telling myself it was a 'phase' but DD2 is 8mo now and it's still almost always a nightly recurrence!

She'll wake maybe 2-3 times during the night for a feed, fine, but on one of those occasions she's usually wide awake after the feed and it'll take 1.5 hours for her to go to sleep again!!

Usually I do the night feeds and DH will get up with DD2 if she's wide awake. She would happily lie in the cot for a while but she's extremely noisy and then ends up getting upset which means none of us (including DD1) can sleep. DH is away with work for 2 weeks at the moment so I'm having to do it all including the early wake up from DD1 and it's just not do-able!

Please, any help?? It doesn't seem to make a difference how much daytime sleep she's had, there doesn't seem to be a trigger at all. She's just AWAKE and very annoyingly chirpy about it 😭

Titty I said 'apparently' no reason. I know there obviously are reasons he's waking but I don't know them anymore whereas before it would either be hunger, or needing to be changed, etc. No need to be snippy.

Try googling 'split night'. I read an article on a blog about baby sleep science about how it can be down to the circadian and sleep pressure rhythms going out of phase, and some other possible reasons. There were some practical suggestions.

She's had a 1 hour nap this morning but just 30 mins this afternoon so we'll see what kind of night we get. She's just about sleeping now.

Even though she was awake several times last night I still felt ok this morning as at least I didn't have to parade about rocking her for hours!!

She's had nurofen and ambesol which will hopefully help too.

Hope y'all have better nights tonight.

I do agree it is about brain development and learning new things but most people (me included) don't know anything about this when they have a baby. I stupidly presumed they slept through after a couple of months :(

I genuinely didn't realise it went on for months and months so my first baby was a shock. I went back to work full time and had 7 months of being up all night as well - that nearly killed me and I didn't enjoy my DD for most of the first year.

I am struggling again now with my DS except I was more prepared and he self settled for the first six months and he has a dummy. He is very similar if not slightly worse than my DD. I just keep plodding on but I'm quite unhappy deep down :(

I will have a look at the blog suggested thank you :)

I hope you get a good night tonight sleep and glad you felt OK today. I suspect I will have a bad night - mine napped quite a lot today with a 2hr nap in the afternoon.

Kitty - it's tough when you don't know why they have woken. I try loads of things and can't ever pin point it- hungry, hot/cold, teeth, too dark/too light, noises/no noise, me shutting the door, me turning over in bed (!) haha! It's gets a bit silly!

One day we will all have teenagers to moan about haha!

AAARRRGGGHHH!

THIRD wake up of the night and WIDE awake 😭😭😭

Does she like YouTube yet?
I can’t remember when I began giving an awake baby my phone or an iPad and then dozing.
But they’re now 8 and 5 and perfectly healthy and bright kids who sleep all night. So it didn’t break them.
The 8 year old was far worse if I recall correctly- so happy to see us and babble away at 3am - and she is by far the better sleeper now you will be glad to hear.

If it works- don’t feel bad about it!

No if she has my phone she only wants to chew it 🙄

I took her downstairs and we read some stories and she played with some toys while I zoned out on my phone.

She's sleeping now but quite restlessly. Tbf she's cutting her millionth fourth tooth this week - but when she's awake she doesn't seem to bothered by them!

Oh dear,poor you,you have anything for teeth cutting through,gel,scallop,nitrogen,all of the above!

Not scallop! Calpol

Oh God,not nitrogen,nurofen. So sorry,autotypes fault

Haha @Bexter801 that made me laugh.

Yes she's got everything - although hates anything rubbed on her gums. I hope she gets a bit of respite soon, although tooth 8 will likely follow soon

@SleepForTheWeek not quite sure nitrogen and scallops are the way forward :/ maybe try distract her,whilst rubbing gel on her gums. I hope you both get some respite soon,it's a tiring daunting,(dreading is this going to be an on going thing)time,for you both. Only solice,is sooner teeth pop out,sooner she and you can chill and hopefully get some rest :)

Crap, this sounds like my 10 month old, one of his night wakings is usually a long one, 1.5hrs I'd say. The only thing that sometimes works to get him down quicker is to do a mini bedtime. So turn on the lights, change nappy, read books, bottle, back to bed. It seems to snap him out of any crying at least. He may then take a bit of time but will self settle in his own cot. It's doing my head in though. He's recently started adding a few other night wakings into the mix too zzz

Sounds like he’s getting the mental download needed to walk.

We had a million wake ups last night again but thankfully no long ones. I think the key Is getting her naps right which will take a bit of playing about with - seems such a shame to wake her from a nap too!