Long night time wake ups

[MrsPear]

What do you do when your baby wakes up properly in the night? Like babbling, wanting to play etc. I never know how to approach it for the best, we usually have a 90 minute stretch each night where he is trying to catch my eye, blowing raspberries, grabbing my hair and so on. Any anecdotes or advice welcome!

 

[xQuinnx]

We are going through this now, my daughter is 1 next week. She will wake up in the night and then be up on and off every hour, 2 hours playing, babbling (very loudly) and moving round the cot. She doesn't necessarily want us, she just wants to play and move! I don't know if it's a developmental thing? We sometimes out white noise on, leave her if she's happy or last night I actually cuddled her and sang to her till she relaxed because she was so excited she was almost laughing hysterically :-/

 

[Button#]

I avoid eye contact at all, keep the light off and hope she doesn't wake up DS in the next room, she's also very loud!

 

[george83]

My 5 month old is doing this at 4 o'clock every morning at the minute. I try him with milk and leave him in his Moses basket. He can have my hand to hold or usually chew on but I don't talk to him or engage with him any more than that unless he begins crying