Hello!
Basically I don't know if we are doing something wrong or if there is anything we can do to improve the situation here....
Background:
- baby is almost one, going to nursery full time, happy, no issues, eating well, taking one bottle of formula at nursery and breastfed morning and evening
- baby sleeps in his own room
- baby falls asleep relatively quickly, often on his own with me/daddy in the room, sometimes we rock him to sleep (if very nervous/teething/ill) and very rarely on the breast (that's accidental if very tired)
- baby normally sleeps no stop 6/7 till the early hours of the morning
...and then is when the problem arises....after 1-2 am he keeps waking up every 1-2 hours until 7ish. He doesn't even properly wake up as he doesn't open his eyes, but he cries and screams. Most of the times he's happy to go back to sleep with his dummy, but there is at least one occasion per night when we need to either hold him, rock him or even wake him properly to make him stop.
Why is that? It doesn't look like he's in pain or scared or anything. But we are struggling to understand what wakes him up, how to stop it or if we are doing something wrong.
Or, possibly, this is totally normal and we need just to accept it (can you tell he's our first one:-)???