What the heck happened to my baby who was doing so much better with sleeping at night? We have a bedtime routine: bath, swaddle, book & bottle, sleep. And it was working. She would fall right asleep and stay that way for up to 5 or 6 hours. Lately she is falling asleep as usual but then waking up about an hour later. I go in her room and pop the paci back in her mouth and she goes right back to sleep, only for this to happen again 15 minutes later. Sometimes I have to go in there 3-4 times until she stays asleep but other times its like an hour and 10 trips later and she's still up when I finally feed her about 2 extra ounces and then she will finally sleep. So she's pretty much "wasted" those first 2 hours of sleep because the time doesn't seem to reset after all this and she doesn't sleep any longer than she would if she would have just stayed asleep from the beginning. I've tried feeding her more at bedtime, going to sleep earlier, going to sleep later, nothing seems to work though some days are better than others I just can't figure out what the trick is. I do not go into her room if she is just fussing with the hopes that she will fall back asleep but she almost never does on her own. She once slept for 7 whole hours and I totally got spoiled and thought that was a sign of good things to come.
She also does not like to take naps but that is a whole other post!!
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Haper does the same thing during naptime, but luckily hasn't started this at night. She's probably just processing all the things she's been learning recently. We had one 7 hour night too, and none since...hopefully we'll both be blessed with full night sleepers soon.
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