Happy night wakings, anyone?

[krisleico]

Hi all, just jumped ship from TB. Glad to see everyone here! 
So, for the last 4-5 nights, our little guy has been waking in the night and "playing" (i.e. singing, talking, kicking, throwing lovey around, pulling paci out, etc) in his crib. It would be fine, except last night was almost 2 hours! Not only is he not getting a good night's sleep, but neither are we because he's so vocal! After a while he starts fussing, but mostly because he is bored and wants company, not because he really needs anything. When I go in to his room, the little turkey just grins. Anyone else dealing with this or have suggestions? Let me just say that it is NOT a matter of sleeping too much during the day. He has always been a pretty crappy napper and he takes 3-4 naps per day that typically range from 30-60 mins (usually more towards 30). His bedtime is btwn 7:30 and 8:00 and he goes down awake but sleepy and has no problem putting himself to sleep (at night and for naps). 

[professorbinns]

Hi welcome! DS was doing the play in the crib for ages and I found his awake times were to short and that seem to help.
This has some info on reasons for night waking.
www.babywhispererforums.com/index.php?topic=52878.0


We do have an ongoing sleep thread and there are lots of ideas on there as well.

[toratoratori]

C doesn't do this often, but she definitely tried to have an entire conversation with me at 2 in the morning the other night. I fell asleep while she was still talking to me.

[krisleico]

professorbinns Thanks for the list! Yes, I agree the obvious reason would be too little awake time during the day, but I assure you that isn't it. Like I said... crap napper on my hands. We are now on night 6 of this, and last night he was awake off and on (and happy) from about 4-7am. Brutal.
I saw there was an ongoing MOTN/sleeping thread, but was a little intimidated by (and didn't have time to read through) the hundreds of responses.