Baby wide awake between 3am and 4am ! Help

Why is this happening ? Has this happened to anyone else ? Is his bedtime too late ? It’s between 7:30 and 8pm. Right now my 9 month old son is transitioning to 2 naps but he’s waking up WIDE awake at 3am and he takes like an hour to get back to sleep.

His schedule is roughly the following / awake at 6:30ish nap 1 at 9 ish. Nap 2 at 2ish. Bedtime at 7:30ish

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Could be a sleep regression. Is he doing anything new? Teething? Learning to crawl?

My daughter is the same- honestly in general she’s just sleeping so crappy right now

I came here to post a similar question and saw your post. My daughter usually goes to bed between 7-8 and sleeps til about 6. We’re also transitioning from 3 to 2 naps. Last night, she woke up after 35 minutes. It took me 1.5 hours to get her back to sleep. Then she woke up screaming at 2 and I couldn’t get her back to bed until 4:30. Since she was 5 months, she’s only woken up at night a handful of times, but I’ve NEVER had so much trouble getting her to go back to sleep. Last night, I’d rock her to sleep, then as soon as I’d lay her down, she’d wake back up fully and stand up in her crib. I left her room to see if she’d put herself back to sleep, but she’d start crying again. We repeated this so. Many. Times.

My little girl started doing this and I think she was having a growth spurt because I started feeding her a little in that time and she would go right back to sleep instead of staying up an hour or 2.

how long did it last? I gave mine a bottle after she was up for an hour to see if that would help, and it still took another 1.5 hours for her to go back to sleep.

I've been giving her 3-4oz depending on how much she ate at bedtime and she usually sleeps another ~4 hours.
It's only been recently she's been doing this and for almost 2 weeks now. The sooner I get her the bottle the better the outcome. Once she's wide awake she wants to play 🤦‍♀️

Yes my little one is doing this. I'm sure it's growing pains but it's rough.
I tried giving him a 2oz bottle last night at his first wake up and he didn't wake up at his usual 4am wake up. He was sleeping through the night so well for a moment tho 😅

Thanks mamas. At least I’m not in it alone. We do a dream feed at like 11pm so I don’t think it’s that he’s hungry. I’m going to try an earlier bed time and if that doesn’t work I guess I’ll just have to ride it out !

My girl is currently doing this as well and was a good sleeper 😭

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I’m going back to work in a couple of weeks—just two days a week—and my 8½-month-old has started her settling-in sessions at nursery. Yesterday was her second one, and it honestly broke my heart.

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My mother-in-law has offered to have her both days, and I’ve said I’ll consider it if she doesn’t settle at nursery after a month—especially since my little one absolutely loves being with her.

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You just changed your baby’s diaper, but realise you have to use the bathroom. Do you wash your hands..

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