Is this normal? She has never STTN but she use to at least be able to do 2-3 hours. Now it seems like she is waking up every hour and a half. I end up just nursing her down most of the time because if I let her fuss and cry I think it wakes her up too much that even after nursing she cant get back down which is why Im up at 4:30 AM now. She slept great up to 3 1/2 months (great as in 5-6 hour stretches) and she regressed and we have never been able to get back on track I feel. we had one week a few weeks back where she went back to 5-6 hours and now this 1 1/2 hour thing. Like I said she use to be able to do at least 2-3 hours. I dont think its a hunger thing as she barely nurses sometimes. whats weirder is if she does nurse a while (15 minutes plus) its almost a guarantee she wakes up after an hour and a half whereas sometimes the shorter nurses give me that extra half an hour to make it two hours between wakings. I really cant do this much longer. She is moving out of our room soon and Im not sure if that will help I just dont know what to think and Im losing it.
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Poor mama. I'm up as well, and my baby doesn't seem to want to go back to sleep. He's only 6 weeks old, but it's been a tough night for me as well. Hang in there. Late night feedings are tough, especially with such frequent wake ups. Did your LO ever go through her 4 month sleep regression?
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Could it be teething? I also recall M going through a period of horrible sleep at 6 months. I googled things like "6 month growth spurt" and such. Then it just passed. It wasn't as bad as every 1.5 hours though that's really rough
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It sounds like she is waking up after each of her sleep cycles. Do you always nurse her to sleep or can she put herself to sleep at the start of the night? If you always nurse, she may not know how to fall back asleep on her own.
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I agree with @rahlyrah. She may not know how to fall asleep on her own. Also we had this same problem and were afraid that moving DS to his own room would only make the night wakings worse for us, but he immediately went from 1-2 hours to around 3 hours between wake-ups. I slept better without him in the room too.
Ultimately though sleep-training is what saved us.
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I agree with @rahlyrah: sounds like she is needing you/nursing to get back to sleep. R did the same thing, she could put herself to sleep at the beginning of the night, but then teething started waking her up 2 times a night. Then she got use to nursing to go back to sleep, and we were back to 3 or 4 a night. We had to sleep train.
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agree with the others. Babies that old aren't waking out of hunger, it's because they haven't learned how to link their sleep cycles together. Agree about sleep training.
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I went though this for 9 months . . . LO not sleeping more than 1.5 hours max at night, averaging 10 wakeups a night (starting from her bedtime of 6:30). But it wasn't because she needed me to nurse her down, it was because she had (horrible silent) reflux, and needed to nurse to re-coat her throat when the reflux would kick in. It was ultimately surgically corrected (she was a really special case), but I don't think it would be a bad idea to talk to your Ped--or a Ped GI Specialist (I had MUCH better luck with the specialist!)--to try to rule out reflux. It generally is at its worst from 4-6 months.
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YUp this was us at 6 months...we sleep trained at 6.5 months and it was life changing!
I agree with ruling out gas/reflux first though!
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This has been us the past month! I think we need to sleep train, but he's gotten sick twice so we've put sleep training on hold. He gets so much congestion that it drains and causes him to cough. Didn't want more mucous plus tears to choke him. Waiting for him to be healthy and we'll go back to sleep training. Until then, I'm one super exhausted momma while the hubby gets restful, uninterrupted sleep. I'm not bitter at all....
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Yup, my DD started doing this at 4 months at which point I had to sleep train her and cut her down to one feed a night. A month after that she dropped the night feed and STTN ever since. The only thing that stoppped it from happening was me admitting that I had to stop nursing her to sleep and let her learn to fall asleep on her own.
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My LO has been waking a lot since about 5.5 months - she's 6.5 months now. We were working on No Cry Sleep Solution to get her to fall asleep on her own, but she's had a bad cold the last week so that is on hold. I'm hopeful we can get back to it soon but right now we're just in survival mode.
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