dd is 4 days short of 4 months, and has been waking most nights 3 or 4 times. We have just restarted EASY "properly" and are aiming for a 4hourly routine, although sometimes it is more like 3.5 hours. Her A time is between 1.5-2 hours. She usually wakes after 45 mins of napping, and we are doin PU/PD to extend the naps, with success after about 20 mins. Her routine:
Woken 7am (having been awake 5.30-6.15 trying to settle) and fed
A
S between 8.30- 9am, wakes after 45 mins, may be able to resettle for another 45 mins (yesterday a well meaning aunt got her up when she cried - doh!
E 10.30am
A
S 12pm, woke at 45 mins, took 20 mins PU/PD to resettle, the slept another hour
E 2.30pm
A
S Catnap 4-4.30pm
Bath 6pm, fed 6.15pm, asleep 6.30, woke briefly 7pm, settled with dummy
DF 10.30pm
Woke 2.15am, fed (reasonably well but not massive), back to sleep after feed 2.30am (no dummy)
Woke 3.45, settled by DH Pu/PD in 15 mins
Woke 5.15am, PU/PD to resttle at 6.15am
Woken 7.10am for day, and fed (but didn't seem to take a huge feed to me)
Back down 8.20am, woke 9.05, resettled in 20 mins
We have just started PU/PD, but need to get rid of the dummy - set for Friday as starting work on Wed/ Thurs. so not ideal I know.
My question relates to the night wakings and when I should feed? previously she was waking around 3.30am, and I would feed her. Other times she has gone to nearly 5am without waking. I think I should only be feeding the one time. I don't want her to wake more often overnight for feeds than during the day! But maybe 2.30 is too early to feed her, and I should try resettling here, and feed at the next waking? she has also woken around 2.30 am for the last few nights so is this a habit? I figured with the shortened naps and increased night wakings that she needed to move on from the 3 hourly feeds. BTW when she wakes overnight, before she would settle with the dummy but now she doesn't seem to want the dummy until she is just about ready to fall asleep.
Thanks! deb