DD will be 6 months old on Thursday. Last Monday night, she began waking once a night on some night again, after having slept 7:30-7:30 with only a DF since the beginning of January. On the nights she is up and won't go back down with a few minute of PU/PD, I have been treating it as hunger and feeding her a 4 oz bottle. Does the trick every time! I felt good about this last week because she was also eating WAY more during the day and I thought, "Okay, major growth spurt!" Then she slept through again on Saturday and Sunday; I thought we were past it, but she was up again at 4:45 this AM wanting to eat! Any ideas?
Here is background info:
DD is fine as far as size - she was 17 pounds when we went to the doctor for an eye infection on February 2. We have been following EASY since she was born. She is formula fed. Typically, she eats 32-36 ounces a day. For the last week, it's been more like 36-46 during this growth spurt! We've been offering her extra bottles during activity time and she's been happy to eat them. She sleeps in a crib in her own room with darkness and white noise and she is swaddled in a Woombie. Since the beginning of February, she has dropped the catnap and is doing fine with it. (Two days that she woke early from a nap we did squeeze in the catnap and it worked just fine.) She has recently extended her afternoon wake time to 3 hours. I am wary of overtiredness but it seems fine. We watch her carefully for sleepy signs.
Here is our normal EASY:
7:30 = Wake up and eat 8 ounces, followed by playtime (She usually just wants to play, so we'll convince her to take about half the bottle and then she'll have the other half after a bit of playtime, usually around 8:30 or 9:00)
10:00-noon = Nap
Noon = Wake up and eat 8 ounces, followed by playtime
3:00-4:30 = Nap
4:30 = Wake up and eat 6 ounces, followed by playtime
6:15 = Just last week, I started feeding her a puree at this time. She can take it or leave it.
7:00 = Eat 8 ounces and get ready for bed
7:45 = Bedtime!
10:30 = Dreamfeed, at which we can usually get 4-6 ounces into her.
During our growth spurt, she has been taking an extra 4-6 ounces around 2:00 or 2:30 PM. She has also been taking more like 10 ounces at bedtime. Then, some nights she has had an additional 4 ounces at some point during the night (all random times.)
Is this due to introducing solids? Or should I be doing MORE solids so she isn't hungry in the night? (I can easily have our nanny add an afternoon solid feeding, or I can do it when I get home from work at 2:30.) Or have my 4 nights (not consecutive) of feeding her during this growth spurt created a bad habit?
