If he's not all-out screaming and crying, what happens if you just ignore him? I wonder if picking up and rocking and eventually giving a bottle may be doing more harm than good? He may hold out for the bottle if he thinks it may come....if he's an independent sleeper I would leave him to it to be honest, unless it's an 'I need you' cry in which case maybe just sit with him, reassure with soft words/shh so he knows he's not alone but try not to help to much. I've sat with my DS an hour and a half before and he has eventually settled himself, any efforts on my part to 'help' generally haven't speeded up the process. If you genuinely think hunger could be an issue I would feed immediately, but if he doesn't settle back instantly that probably isn't the reason he's woken so then I would probably cut the feed all together. What do you think?