New to EASY, help me figure out night wakings!

[ladyjanegrey]

Okay, so I've just started EASY, and I'm trying to figure out our nights.

My baby is 5 weeks old.  She has always awakened at exactly the same times every night:  She'll feed at 11, wake up at 2 and feed, then wake up again at 4 and feed again, then sleep till 7.

After thinking things through as I've been working out our EASY, I'm starting to wonder if the 4 AM feeding is really necessary, or if she's just waking up for the sake of waking up.  I've noticed that most of the time during this 4 am feeding, she'll only take an ounce or so, whereas our other feedings she'll take 3, sometimes 4 oz.   My thinking is that if she can sleep from 11-2am and then from 4am - 7am, why is she waking at 4 am after she's just had a bottle at 2 am?  Does she really need to eat again?

So my question is, should I try to get her back to sleep without feeding her at 4 am?  Is she too young to do this?  Should I continue to feed her at 4, or should I just pat/shush and see if she'll go back to sleep?

What do you guys think?

[* Paula *]

Hi welcome to the BW website.

Can you post what your routine looks like through the day i.e.
E - how much
A - how long
S - including windown routine.

Is your lo bottle fed (formula) or breastfed?

It is not uncommon for lo's of such a young age to wake in the night for feedings.  Have you tried doing cluster feeds in the later afternoon and introducing a DF at about 10:00pm?

[15milner]

At 5 weeks old I think  night feeds at 11,2 and 4 then waking at sound pretty reasonable.

Feeding times are probably somewhere between 2-3 hours apart anyway.  What's it like during the day?

Alex