5 month old used to sleep 7 til 7 but now wakes 3:30 each morning

[susiemum]

Can anyone offer some suggestions as to why the following may be happening ?

DD has been sleeping from 7pm to 7am since she was about 8 weeks old. She is now 5 months old but for the last 10 days or so she has been waking up at almost exactly 3:30am each morning.

We have been BF her back to sleep and she then sleeps again until 7am.

In the last week she has been started on pureed carrot and also sweet potato. She is showing signs of early teething.

Any ideas as to how we can reset her sleep clock or is there something else we should be doing so that she gets back to her old (young!) self ?

All suggestions greatly appreciated.

P.S. I know that in the context of babies and sleeping she sounds like a little angel and generally we are lucky cos she is. So do tell me to shut up if this appears to be a very minor problem !

[MrsScareyFish]

they do this to trick you adn serve you right fro being pleased that they slept

hahah! sorry this drove me NUTs hwne i had littlties
i think at 5 months that aint bad tbh

[Enid]

My 5 month old slept from 8 to 7 for about 6 weeks but for the last two months has been waking at 3.30 ish too. I bf her back to sleep and am quite used to it. She is fully bfed and I have not weaned her yet.

I do wonder about weaning with veg - I mean a carrot is not as calorific as milk is it otherwise I would be sooooooo skinny

so if she is filling up on veg she will have less room for milk so controversially...she may be hungry??

[MrsScareyFish]

my mate charlieropersmum is going through this too
mine alwasy woke every 3 hours so i never had this kind a GOOD time then crap time. it was just crap al the time

[Enid]

lol

crap all the time is better

mine also has filthy cold and sleeps on her tummy so keeps sneezing then sticking to the sheet

nice

[susiemum]

Thanks for your replies so far.

She is actually only having one meal a day that is veg and that is at 10:30am. The rest of her meals are BF.

[MrsScareyFish]

ooh yes htent he colds start
susie our youngest is no 3.7 but has a cough and i am knakcered today fomrgettting up wiht him once
god it takes me back! so sympathy
a dnthey are so cute when you go in its hard to be cross

( after the third time though you may go in and roar "what is wrong wiht oyu ????" as i once did )

[Enid]

yes

dd3 looks JUST like this when she sees me:

so almost impossible to get arsey. Susie sympathies but you do adjust and it won't be forever. My almost 4 year old is waking up every night atm and that combined with baby just means I am the walking dead every day, I am presuming it will stop at some point.

[odbod]

so glad I found this thread my 4 and half month ds is doing exactly the same thing!

Past two nights I've refused BFeeding him, first night he took 2 ounces of water (to calm him down) then cried for 4 minutes and straight back to sleep till 7am

Last night it was only 1 ounce of water and 4 minutes crying (was timing every minute of it!) and back to sleep so pretty much convinced its not hunger

I will let you know what happens tonight - main problem I have is using refusable nappies and they leak so had to do a nappy change both nights - not ideal and have changed his nappy type to more absorbant tonight...

I'm hoping he'll get bored of it and settle into his old routine - incidently he was waking 3 times a night, started weaning, now have just got to carrot in morning (only first taste not a real portion) and baby rice with breast milk in evening (bout 3 ounces of milk) so now only have one night waking

Know completely what you mean about no one being sympathetic about wanting 12 hour sleeping back but its frustrating isn't it when you know they can do it!

Only advice I've found is from Baby Whisperer book that says wake up hour before they do and wake them up and re settle them as it breaks their routine... haven't tried it yet but if still not sorted in few days I might try

[odbod]

since friday night he has woken later each night - slept till 6.40am on Saturday and think he was only wake last night because heating wasn't set and he got cold - no water, just cuddle put heating on and he went straight back to sleep (no crying!)

Have been advised if its the same time every night then its hunger and you need to feed extra and HV said to eat more calorific foods to help milk supply - I have four meals a day at mo