What to do with morning feed

[jp2008]

Hi all

Having a tough time at the moment with dummy weaning (cold turkey poor fella) but i think i can see the light on the horizon. The posts on the PU/PD and prop site are great.

But, have been busy trying to do this for past 3 days and my EASY routine has gone a little haywire. Essentially because i've been feeding earlier than the 3.5 hours i was doing because i figured all the crying was making him hungry.

tomorrow i hope to get back to 3.5 hour easy (as good as possible anyway)

BUT. MY QUESTION

my 4.5 month old has been waking at 5.45 the last two mornings for feeds. He used to wake around 6.30/7. I think this is because his night feeds have changed as a result of dummy weaning. But when he feeds this late. he won't want breakfast and he'll oversleep. what should i do if he wakes at this time again tomorrow. feed him and wake him at 7 anyway and try to feed him again???

I'd post my routine but as i say it's all over the shop. This morning and yesterday though i treated the 5.45am feed like a night feed and he went back to sleep for 1.5-2 hours both times. then tried to give him a breakfast at 8.30 but not really interested. then i don't know when to do the next feed because he didn't have a proper breakfast. He's breastfed so a bit hard to tell how much he's actually having!

[* Paula *]

How long does he usually feed for?  If he wakes at 5:45 I would cut that feed in half.  So if he feeds for 10 mins, I would only feed for 5 and then put him back down.  This way hopefully he will be hungry when you wake him at normal time.

You can then reduce the amount of time every few days, and he will soon realise that is not worth waking for just a few sips, and will end up taking a better feed in the morning, and this should off set the day if that makes sense.

[jp2008]

thanks paula
will give that a go : ) i'm not sure he'll settle after without the dummy. would i then use PU/PD??