Nathan is 6 months old and slept through the night at about 9 weeks. Recently, about the past month, he has been waking either at 5:45 and not going back to sleep (about 1 night a week) or he wakes around 3-5am (about 6 days a week). At the 3-5 am wake I have been feeding him and he will pretty much go back to sleep and sleep until 6-7 depending on the waking. He drinks the whole bottle quickly and falls back asleep easily. However, mom does not fall back asleep so quickly
Over the past month, he has learned to roll over, sit up, had 2 teeth pop through and a double ear infection. However, we are over ALL that now and he just will not sleep through. It is not at the same time every night also which is confusing!!
SO does he really need this feed ?? how do you know??
Our day: This schedule will change due to the nightwaking but this is a rough guide
6am bottle 6oz
7am solids
8am nap
10am bottle 6oz
11am lunch
12pm nap
2pm bottle 6oz
4pm nap
6pm dinner and a little milk (just to wash it down!)
7pm bath pjs bottle
7:30 bed
Well, of course he does not always take 2 hour naps. Usually 2 naps are 1-2 hours and the third is 45 min. but these can happen at any nap. So if he naps short, I try to keep the food the same, but he only stays awake for 2 hours.
I have tried to settle him only a few times because it is easier to feed him and go back to bed. When I tried to settle him he just kept fussing. He does not really CRY at the waking more of a whine fuss grumble!! He uses a paci to go to sleep most of the time. This is starting to upset our schedule. Because he is not really interested in eating when he first wakes in the morning because he just ate an hour or so ago
Anything would be appreciated!!!