Hi JudyM, it's good to find a kindred spirit!
My LO, Ethan, doesn't bother waiting until the actual DF to stir though - he's awake before it even starts!
Ethan is still in our bedroom and can be a pretty light sleeper so we have been doing quite a bit of tippytoeing around. I've been telling my hubby (DH!) that I want to move to a house where the rooms are properly constructed, none of this paper-thin wall new-build nonsense, and where the bedrooms are far away from the kitchen! Oh, and I want a utility room so we can chuck all the noisy appliances in it too
I'd like to keep him in our room until he's at least 6 months as to be honest it's easier to get up to go to him in the middle of the night, and to transport him from and to his cot when he needs to be fed!
6.45am wakeup... *props eyelids open with toothpicks* haha! It's sometimes earlier, 6.30... 6.10... Ethan is a bit of an early riser but sometimes I can't do anything else other than ignore him when he wakes up (thank goodness he doesn't scream for attention straightaway as I'd probably drop him by falling over my own feet).
And it can be pretty difficult to interpret his hunger cues/cries, yes! Not sure whether that's just me being rubbish though
I can usually tell when he's bored or frustrated, and when he's tired, but he doesn't seem to give clear hunger cues (maybe that's because I'm feeding him before he's actually really hungry, I dunno
) - unless I miss the cues entirely and he's been hungry for a while, and then he really lets me know it! I often have to take my cues from the clock as to whether a particular cry or fuss is likely to be hunger...
