Wide awake 4 month old

[Charlie'sMum]

My 4 month old daughter Charlie has started to wake around 9.30pm and again 5.00am and staying wide awake. Charlie had been sleeping well from about 10 weeks, and had dropped her mid morning feed, but now she has been waking.

I give Charlie a bath at 5.30pm and a bottle at 6.00pm and I put her to bed and she settles herself. Previously I used to give her a dream feed before we would go to sleep around 10.30pm, but now she is waking around 9.00pm and staying awake, wanting to play. We feed her, keep the lights low, don't talk or make eye contact and put her back to bed, but we can hear her talking to herself in her cot until around 11.30pm, then she will cry and I will help her settle. Then she will sleep until around 5.00am and then become wide awake and cry. I go in to resettle her but she will start smiling and want to play. I refuse to get her up though, instead trying to resettle her.

Sometimes she will sleep again, waking around 7.30 when I get her up for the day.

She still has long sleeps during the day, and I thought that might be contributing to her being wide awake at night time, but I can't seem to keep her awake during the day. She wants to sleep and I don't want her to become overtired so I will put her in her cot and she will sleep for 1 to 2 hours.

Has anyone else experienced a little night owl like this?? She is just so bright eyed and bushy tailed in the night time!

[tickle]

I am having the same problem at the moment, so sorry not any good advice here. We got up at 4:30am today.:banghead:
If you find the answer please let me know!:hugs:

[bindiloo]

mmm not sure with the waking at 9pm sorry,
I give my daughter who's 4mnths old a bath at 6pm and bottle at 6.30pm then some play time on the floor gooing and gahing and then to bed when she gets grizzly at around 7.30-7.45pm. and she will sleep till her bottle at 3.30am then wakes around 7am. However lately she has been waking around 12.30am a couple of times a week and im having to change her nappy re-wrap her and put her back down and she will go straight back off to sleep. so maybe cause the first time she woke at 9pm you gave her a bottle she is now expecting it ever night. perhaps just changer her and try to resettle her again.
Sorry im not much help.

[bindiloo]

I was just reading in my tizzie hall bokk and it says for her age that if she wakes within half an hour of the dreamfeed then to just feed her but if it is over half an hour to the dreamfeed you should resettle her.
maybe eventually if your consistant with it she will stop waking at the 9pm feed cause she'll realise she isnt getting fed yet. Goodluck i know its frustrating.
Afew weeks ago my dd was waking at 10.30pm then every half hour after that and i had to just keep resettling her,i was exhausted after the week.:sleeping: :sleeping: :sleeping:

[Charlie'sMum]

I have the same Tizzie Hall book! I think I did make it worse by getting Charlie up when she woke the first time at 9.00pm.

I gave Charlie her feed at 7.00pm last night instead of 6.00pm (was hard to distract her until then!) and she slept through until her dreamfeed at 10.30pm. :smiliedance:

She woke at 5.00am though this morning. I went into her cot and she was smiling and bright eyed! I turned her mobile on and left the room. She talked to herself for a bit and then cried. I didn't get her up though. I kept going back in and patting her and turning the mobile back on. She got the message and went to sleep from 6.00am until 7.00am when I got her up to start the day.

I figure even if I have to keep getting up and resettling her for a week, its much better than getting up every day at 5.00 for a year!! Hopefully she will learn that I won't get her up to play until day time.

[Charlie'sMum]

Tickle - when your bub wakes up at 4.30am what do you do?