LO wakes every 45mins after 3am!

[SarahDay1990]

My LO (12 weeks) wakes every hour after 3am. I try feeding her but she won’t take a full feed. She usually goes to bed 7.30/8 wakes around 12.30 and takes a feed wakes at 3.30 and takes a feed but then wakes up constantly - why is this?

Hi Sarah, I think a 7:30 bedtime is quite early for some 12 week olds. My 16 week old goes to sleep at 10 and is only now showing signs of wanting earlier so we are doing 9:30 this week, then will gradually move it earlier. It's also totally normal to have a restless second half of night as they're not as tired.

Also, are you doing ok? You ask a lot of questions around sleep on this board and seem to be really anxious about sleep issues. I am the same. I feel like I'm completely governed by sleep issues. I am constantly reading about what should and shouldn't happen and getting myself into a spin, even though it's my second!

we used to do a much later bedtime but the way the naps fall 7.30/8 seems to be when LO does a longer stretch so I’ve just gone with their lead. Yes sleep is a hot topic for me - I had PND with my first and think a lot of that was sleep related - I find my mental health suffers when I don’t sleep (same as everyone else I guess)

@SarahDay1990 I have PND too and worry / obsess about sleep. I'm currently on edge thinking the 4 month sleep regression will appear any minute. I also have to unswaddle soon too which I'm dreading as she gets very excited about her hands.