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Babies: 3 - 6 Months
Change in sleep routine...need help if LO STTN
DD is a great sleeper so I'm not complaining but her old schedule was soooo much better! She used to get a bath around 7/7:30, get a final bottle and down between 7:30-8 and sleep to around 7 am. Yes, we were very lucky! She's been steadily bumping her wake up time and it's now at 5 am. I don't really mind since it's still a good stretch but I'd love to get back to her old pattern if we could. She's still napping pretty well and it doesn't appear to be light since we bought blackout curtains to see if that would help. She did take an 8 oz bottle this am which she had been only taking 4 during that later wake up so I'm wondering if she's growing. We dropped the dream feed around 3 months but I'm wondering if that would help? She just about 5 months now. ANy insight is greatly appreciated!
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Re: Change in sleep routine...need help if LO STTN
Babies' routines change constantly.
For over two months, DS had a beautifully consistent nighttime schedule. He'd go down at 7, wake around 3, and wake up between 7 & 8. He never woke earlier than 2, and would rarely wake more than once in the night. That schedule is LONG gone. We think the 4 month wakeful is behind us, but his sleep is still horribly inconsistent. He still (usually) goes down around 7, but will wake at 10 pm, 1 am, or 4 am. Some nights he wants to play from 3-5 am, and other nights like last night, he has a single wakeup around 10:30 and then sleeps 'til 6.
I'm a go-with-the-flow kinda mom, so the way I see it, there's not much more you can do than just adjust...because babies will do what babies want to do! As much as it sucks getting up earlier, it's easier for us to adjust our schedules than to adjust theirs. Believe me, I miss the days that DS slept til 8...or even 7!
To repeat what someone else already mentioned, baby's sleep routines change constantly.
My DS started STTN at 7 weeks. That lasted for about 10 weeks. Then he started getting up twice a night. Then he went back to STTN. Then last week he started getting up twice again. Now he started STTN again this weekend.
Consider yourself lucky if she sleeps from 8-5. It could be MUCH worse.
I know this is still a very good routine but DH doesn't get to see her at all in this pattern which really stinks. I could care less about me loosing an hour of sleep, it's more for the sake of them getting to spend time together.