"EMMA DILEMMA"!

Oh, E.!  WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO US?  E., a good sleeper since, er, day 3 or so, has turned on us. I mean, I don't think she's a bad sleeper, but she has gone from one wake-up to many.  Seriously.  WHY? She goes to sleep just fine.  She naps beautifully (three naps a day, each after a 1 1/2 or 2 hour wakeful period).  So, again: WHY the wake-ups?

We thought it was the pacifier and went cold-turkey with that (remember?).  And E. slept like her ol' self for two nights.  Then, it was downhill from there.  A typical night these days since the middle of last week involves about four wake-ups.  And I feed her twice.  And M. gets her back to sleep the other two times.  Thankfully, she's never awake for long.  Just long enough to rouse us every two hours - in the middle of our elusive REM sleep - to coax her back to la-la land.  

Again:  why, E., why? I am confident this is a phase and we'll soon return to that luxurious one-feeding-a-night ritual with no other wake-ups.  And I recently read that there's something called the four-month sleep regression or four-month wakefulness (but if my recollection serves me well, A. never went through this; she's always been a bit of a rock-star sleeper, setting the bar high).  Maybe that's what we're going through here, I don't know. But whatever it is, it has to pass.  Quickly.  Because we want our dreamy nights back.  Like, starting with tonight.