Waking In The Night?

[Tiff]

So Claire's been totally AWESOME and has been basically sleeping through the night since the first week of March. happydance: )

This past week however she's been back to waking up in the middle of the night. Her bedtime is anywhere from 8pm-9pm, and normally wakes up between 4-6am, depending if she went to bed at 8pm or 9pm. This week has been 4:30am, then 4am, then 3:30am and last night 2am

It's so out of character. She takes 7oz 5 times a day. Should I add another ounce? I always leave her in her crib until she actually starts fussing, but I've become accustomed to sleeping for 6 or 7 hours at a stretch and I don't want to give it up just yet!

So, so confused.

 

[Pyrrhic]

Niamh has been going through a growth spurt, and they are due one at this stage. Maybe that's it?

 

[Tiff]

It's possible! I weighed her on the scale the other day and it said she's 14lbs! I totally heart my little porkchop

 

[Pyrrhic]

lol! Niamh is only 11lbs! (shes on the small side though!) You must be feeding her up good

 

[Tiff]

Yeah, she definitely likes her bottles

I tried an extra ounce with today's bottles... so cross your fingers that she sleeps through tonight!

 

[ryder]

Well Jasmine hasnt woke up for food since before 2 months old.... I started weaning earlier though... Maybe just see if she will have more in the day? Jasmine eats about every 2-3 hours in the day now, she used to eat ever 4.

 

[BlackBerry25]

Helena still wakes up 2 times a night for food. ARGH!! Why are your babies sleeping through and they are younger

 

[x-li-x]

maybe its just a growrh spurt hun my boy went through one about that stage too and after a hile went pretty much back to his normal routine, she may want more now as shes getting older so no harm in trying extra oz.xx

 

[Tiff]

Well, the extra ounce got her until 4:30am

Although I think I see a problematic trend forming. She doesn't nap well during the day. We've got really inconsiderate neighbours (such is life in a condo) who, regardless of how many times I've explained to them that their living room is directly above Claire's nursery, still thump and bang around. As a result, she's dead tired by 5pm/6pm. She'll sleep better then, but when I'm thinking about it, she sleeps from about 5pm, gets up for a bottle around 8 or 9, then back to sleep again until 3:30am ish? So really that's around 10 hours that she's sleeping. She's just not sleeping at the better times for me I guess.

So how do I break this cycle? I've let her try and sleep on me (as she sleeps better like that) but she's still used to going down that early. Eeeek!