Hi,
My 10 month old has started to wake between 3-4am for the past couple of months, usually wide awake. It can take a good hour of rocking and singing to him to get him back to sleep, for him then to wake around 5am.
His current pattern is as follows:
- Bottle around 530am
- Breakfast around 8am
- Nap 830am for approx 1-1.5 hours
- Lunch 12pm
- Nap around 2pm for about 1.5 hours
- Tea 5pm
- Bath 6pm, bottle 7pm and asleep around 720pm
- Wakes between 3-4am sometimes able to rock him back off easily but only until around 5am, other occasions he will really fight it.
We did go through a stage of letting him co-sleep with us but he would still wake around 430am for the day! He has not co slept with us for a good few weeks.
He goes down for his naps during the day without much fuss, going to bed at night can take some singing and rocking.
He is eating 3 meals and has 3 8oz bottles.
He has just started to crawl and pull himself up on furniture/stand but he has been in this sleep pattern since before then. Neither is he teething!
He no longer has a dummy, he started to refuse taking one around 3 months ago. Putting his dummy back in at night would help him go back to sleep, but since he no longer wants the dummy he cannot get himself to sleep.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated! :)