Sorry for the delay in responding, but I haven't had a lot of time to get online and I've been using what time I had to try to help someone else since I've been managing with our decision to go back to feeding.
hi, she might have been sleeping more peacefully after a 5am feed and getting better rest, is that what you are thinking?
DS took until 14 or so months to stop waking at night for feeds, he had been sick and lost a lot of weight. Once he started eating big amounts in the day to catch up he stopped waking. Now he just sometimes wakes to say 'oh hi mum' 
Yes, thats what I was thinking..except her feedings were always earlier than 5. If she had an undiluted bottle between roughly 2 and 4, she would sleep till 7 or 8 with a roughly 2 hour nap. If she had a diluted bottle between 2 and 4, she would wake at 5:15-5:30 and take a 4 hour nap.
And it worked for a few days. (Not really surprising, I sometimes need to get up and eat something in the early morning. I wake up hungry, then can't get back to sleep. As soon as I eat something, I conk right out.) The early wakings have started again. But she got a bad cold 3 days after I last posted in this thread, has cut two new molars during all of this, and we had to switch her from her crib to a toddler bed. (crib recall in Canada, and the fix for the crib wouldn't work for us) I think that the early wakings now are due to too much sleep during the day. Cut her nap back a bit today, we'll see what happens.
Hi Mashimaro; thank you for jumping in, I do appreciate anyone contributing to help us find a solution.
Our LO has always been a great at napping. To the point where in the past I've actually had to intentionally shorten her nap(s) during the day. We have even had random nights where she has slept all the way through. Just not very often, unfortunately.
She uses a pacifier, and is pretty good about finding it herself if she loses it. Sometimes she needs help though, and I go in and give her one and she goes back to sleep. She has also never fed to go to sleep. When she finishes a bottle she is always awake, then settles down and goes to sleep.
Her hunger wake up is now happening anywhere between 1:30 and 4. Without the undiluted bottle, she would then wake up at 5:30 and not go back to sleep, even if I did feed her again when she woke up the second time. Overall, she really doesn't drink alot of milk. 4oz at lunch, 5 oz before bed, then the bottle in the night. I could feed her solid food in the night, but that would mostly just succeed in waking me up more and making both of us more cranky.
I'll keep track of what she eats and sleeps later this week and post it.
Thank you!
Sapphyre
