Hi there, my little pudding of a DD is currently jerking about happily in her door bouncer, so...
I guess I just want to know if there's something obvious we're doing wrong/could do differently that would help her sleep better in the day and night. If not, then that's fine. She's only little and she's a lovely baby, so I really can just soldier on with broken sleep. But figure there's no point soldiering on if there's a tweak we can make that would get her sleeping through (she says hopefully!)
The main issue is that for the past couple of weeks she's starting waking up between 3am and 6am, frequently. We go through, settle her and she'll sleep again for sometimes 5 minutes before waking up again or somethings half an hour/45 mins etc, but basically from about 3am it's a constant round of waking and settling, until somewhere between 6am and 7.15am when she'll wake up properly, burbling and chatting to herself and ready to get up.
How can we get her (can we get her) to sleep more deeply and better between 3am and 6am??
What do you need to know?...
She goes to bed about 7/7.30pm. She usually goes down fairly easily, although in past few weeks have had to start holding her arms firmly against the mattress to stop her flailing about and waking herself up. Kind of like swaddling, I guess, but just til she falls asleep. (Didn't used to have to do that).
She has a dream feed at 11pm, goes back down in the same way as at 7/7.30pm i.e. doesn't take long to drop off but needs arms held. And then sleeps well til 3ish.
She occasionally wakes up because her dummy has dropped out, but only sometimes and you put it back in and she goes straight back into deep sleep so in some ways not too bothered about that kind of waking. It's the flailing around waking which needs arm-holding that is the problem.
Does that make any sense? Any ideas?