Getting baby back down after night feed
Our daughter has started doing a longer stretch at night so will go from around 8pm through til 4/4.30am, with a dream feed at 10.30. However since she’s been doing this longer stretch she’s been so much harder to get back down! She’ll fall asleep on me as I feed but then her eyes ping open as soon as I put her down in her Moses basket! My husband has been rocking her back to sleep but she’ll then wake up after 30/45 mins which is like 5.30/6am. I don’t think she can be hungry as she’s had a feed less than 2 hours before. Anyone else experiencing the same? Any tips?!
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I could have written this myself! I am wondering if 8-4 is actually just sufficient sleep for them and they are therefore ready to start the "day" at 5am. I tend to try and keep my 10 week old awake until 9-9.30 and that tends to help, although not sure if this is just luck/coincidence
Have you tried some white noise? My little one tends to be ready for a bottle around 5/6am and sometimes takes a while to go back to sleep as he thinks it's daytime. I tend to try and keep everything quiet, dark and incorporate white noise as I'm feeding him. Might be worth trying 😊
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