Whats going on....

So question about sleeping!

Lexie is 4 months now, About 4 weeks ago she stopped sleeping her 12 hours through the night and now wakes generally twice a night and is demolishing her bottles. Her day sleeping had finally got to a good point about 3 weeks ago where she was having a 2-3 hour sleep, a 1.5 hour sleep and a couple of 45 minute sleeps in a day.

Now I'm not too worried about the waking in the night thing she is obviously hungry so thats fine, the part that is frustrating me is that for the last couple of days she has all of a sudden stopped doing her good sleeps, I haven't changed the way I am putting her down or when but now she sleeps for like 15 minutes and wakes up, happy not crying, but I try to resettle her she might go back to sleep after about 10 mins for another 15 minutes, but then I can't get her to go back down after that! Any ideas to what the issue could be? Should she still be having a lot of sleeps during the day or is it about now she should be awake for a longer amount of time? She was having the majority of those day sleeps in the morning before all this happened.

hope this makes sense lol am a bit tired so brain is a bit off lol

Thanks for your quick response!

She is getting up between 7 and 7:30 every morning and I normally try to put her down for her first nap within the first hour and that was working up until a couple of days ago.

She has 6-8 bottles of 150mls in 24 hours, I have tried upping her bottles to 200 mls but she just ends up leaving the extra 50, or I try to give her a top up and she doesn't even touch it.

hey Bex - Lexie may be a grazzer like Jayden. I make up the 200ml bottles and sometimes he will drink 120mls and sometimes the whole bottle. I generally leave what he hasn't drunk and give him the rest when he next needs it - sometimes he needs the rest not long after having the first bit.

Welcome to the catnappers club!!

Sounds like she wants to have longer awake times. DD screamed when I put her down after an hour, then started putting her down after 1.5 hours and she went down fine. She's now doing 2 hours up.

She also started catnapping at 3months old. She takes half hour sleeps during the day and sleeps all night. Biggest lesson I've learnt is to go with the flow. If she's happy after her short sleep then just get her up. If she's still tired try re-settling her, or get her up for 10mins and try again.
Don't get stressed if she won't go back to sleep as it can become very frustrating and that just results in an unhappy mum.
My motto: feed them when they're hungry, put them to bed when they're tired and make the most of the time inbetween!    Keep night time quiet and dark and no eye contact.

DD has been catnapping for 2 months now and I've just come to accept that this is how she is. She used to have 3 two hour sleeps a day. Oh how my life changed when she started catnapping!
I still hope one day she'll spoil me and do a big 2-3 hour sleep. The only problem with the catnapping is she gets very overtired by the end of the day.

Hope things get back on track soon for you. It can be very frustrating this sleep thing.