As soon as baby hit 9 months she wakes up either between 2-330a or 5:30a almost every night. She wakes up with a fuss that leads into crying. We don’t do CIO, so my husband or I will go in and hold or rock her back to sleep. This sometimes takes a few tries because she will sometimes cry when transferred back to the crib and we repeat. We’ve even tried just going in and doing a shush/hand touch in the crib but she just cries harder. If she wakes up the earlier shift she will usually end up sleeping until 630-7a, but if she sleeps through the night shes almost guaranteed to wake up instead at 530a. Given the time I usually just bring her to our bed to finish off sleep until 7-730 and she will often go back down, but I do not want to be resorting to this and building that habit.
If you’re wondering, we do 2 naps that are around 1-2 hours each and wake windows are 3/3hrs10mins/3hrs15-30mins. No matter when she goes to sleep, earlier or later, we have this same wake up issue. Dark room, sound machine on, the whole nine…
She goes into her crib awake for all sleep and easily puts herself back to sleep if she wakes up every other time.
If you’ve been through this at all what helped you to stop the wake ups or get your baby sleeping until at least 630a-7a?