My 5 month old has been doing this for about a month now. She is wide awake in the middle of the night for anywhere from 20 mins to 3 hours (usually about 30 mins), on average about 5 days a week. Needless to say I am exhausted.
She starts the night in her crib, then when she wakes we cosleep in a bed in her room. Sometimes the wide awake period happens at this first waking, sometimes it happens when we are already cosleeping.
We're working on weaning from a swaddle - usually what I do now is put her to sleep with no swaddle and when she wakes in the middle of the night and can't settle her arms down I swaddle her (may or may not be the 1st waking). Sometimes she goes back to sleep, sometimes she stays wide awake. If I swaddle her at the bedtime than she starts freaking out resisting the swaddle in the middle of the night and I have to unswaddle her. The wide awake periods happen whether she is swaddled or not, so I'm not sure that is the correlation.
I don't think she's teething, she is happy when she is awake, not crying.
I don't engage her at all when she wakes up - no lights, no talking, nothing. Her room is pitch black so nothing stimulating to see. Usually she will not nurse back to sleep, I have to get up and bounce her in her bouncy chair to fall back to sleep. Sometimes I can transfer her to the crib or bed, sometimes I have to leave her in the chair to sleep.
My oldest did this too, but it only lasted about a week, this has been a month!
Any advice?
She starts the night in her crib, then when she wakes we cosleep in a bed in her room. Sometimes the wide awake period happens at this first waking, sometimes it happens when we are already cosleeping.
We're working on weaning from a swaddle - usually what I do now is put her to sleep with no swaddle and when she wakes in the middle of the night and can't settle her arms down I swaddle her (may or may not be the 1st waking). Sometimes she goes back to sleep, sometimes she stays wide awake. If I swaddle her at the bedtime than she starts freaking out resisting the swaddle in the middle of the night and I have to unswaddle her. The wide awake periods happen whether she is swaddled or not, so I'm not sure that is the correlation.
I don't think she's teething, she is happy when she is awake, not crying.
I don't engage her at all when she wakes up - no lights, no talking, nothing. Her room is pitch black so nothing stimulating to see. Usually she will not nurse back to sleep, I have to get up and bounce her in her bouncy chair to fall back to sleep. Sometimes I can transfer her to the crib or bed, sometimes I have to leave her in the chair to sleep.
My oldest did this too, but it only lasted about a week, this has been a month!
Any advice?
