PLEASE CAN I HAVE SOME ADVICE? GETTING DESPERATE
Any tips to help combat night waking / early mornings? DD is 5 months and any semblance of a routine is out of the window as she’s begun waking for the day at 5-5:30 (I do try to settle her but she’s wide awake).
She also often wakes at least hourly from around 2/3am onwards. This has been going on for ages so isn’t a leap.
I’m nearing the end of my tether with sleep, she’s worse now than when she was a newborn.
Although daytime routine is non existent, I tend to follow wake windows, so she will have a nap 2-3 hours after she has last woken up, and generally doesn’t sleep more than 2.5-3 hours max in the day.
Bedtime routine is good and she can self settle (although not always!). She is usually down and asleep by 6:30-7pm and dream feed is at 10pm.
She is EBF but has - large bottle of expressed milk after her bath and again at the dream feed.
How do I stop the middle of the night wake ups? (I of course feed her if she's hungry but I don't think she is hungry every time she wakes! I feed her the first time but when she wakes 45 mins later I don't think hunger is the issue).
And how do I stop the early morning wake ups?
Grateful for any advice....