Baby wakes after an hour
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Try to introduce white noise to cancel out background noise that could wake her. We have a dim red ceiling projector so enough light in the room for me to resettle without fully waking with the “big light”. My son’s sleeping is getting a lot better since we introduced iron supplements and magnesium spray, he’s 13 months and used to wake every two hours but since introducing the magnesium spray he sleeps longer stretches.
She has learnt to become reliant on feeding to sleep and therefore can't settle herself without it when she wakes. Take it right back to the beginning and re-introduction independent self soothing tools (red light, white noise, classic fm, a small teddy although I realise not advised has worked wonders for both of mine, a dummy, whatever works for you). She needs to learn to associate these things with sleep and they become a replacement for feeding. So everytime she falls asleep you make sure those things are in place. x
I have tried a dummy multiple times but she just doesn't seem to take it and will chew on it or play with it but then get mad if I substitute the boob for it! She does have the white noise on while she is sleeping..Will try out the other suggestions! Thank you all x
My baby is the same, I feed her to sleep and put her in the cot and most nights she will wake after her first sleep cycle and continue doing that until I go to bed and cosleep with her. Some nights she might go a bit longer (2.5 hours tonight and I have no idea why!). My first I couldn’t even get her into the cot without her waking up and we ended up getting a floor bed for her! But with both of them I’ve done plenty of contact naps, almost exclusively with my eldest and she settled to sleep in other ways for my husband/grandparents/nursery etc. I’m personally against sleep training. I don’t think it takes your baby’s temperament into account, and I’d guess from the fact that your baby was so distressed that she was sick 3 times that she’s a sensitive little soul. Look up the orchid and the dandelion, she sounds like an orchid. I don’t think you can make your baby like this, it’s just the way they’re born. Have you tried white/pink/brown noise if she’s a light sleeper?