Waking 1 hour before morning feed time?

[Britterbug84]

DD is 3 months (14.5 weeks) and had started having weird NW and EW problems. She has usually only had 1 NW at around 5 am sense she was 2 or 3 weeks old so this is baffling me. Our day goes from 8-8 and she usually would wake between 4-6, eat then go back to sleep until her morning feed. But for almost a week now she has been waking at 3:30-45 and then again at 6:45-7:00! When she wakes this close to her morning feed, do I feed her and put her back to sleep and then get her up again at 8 or do I try to put her back to sleep until 8? If I DO feed her is it ok that she doesn't eat much at 8? Wouldn't that keep her from making it through the first nap to the next feed?

Our days this week have been looking like this:

E - 8:00
A - 8:15
S - 9:20 - sometimes wakes at 45 minutes and I put her back to sleep with a little patting
E - 11:00
A - 11:10
S - 12:20-25 - wakes at the 45 again and goes back to sleep with either patting or pacifier
E - 2:00
A - 2:15
S - 3:15-20 - same story as the last one
E - 5:00
A - 5:10
S - 6:15-20
E - 7:00 -(she usually isn't very hungry for this feeding)
A - 7:05  -Bedtime routine: bath, massage, lotion, PJ's, song and story, swaddle, then bed.
S - 8:20
DF - 11:15-30 (she usually eats about 4-5oz from the bottle)

E - 3:30-45 (She has been VERY hungry for this NW)
S - 4:00

NW - 6:45-7:00 -I have been giving her her pacifier and she will doze until she spits it out or it falls out and then she starts wake up again. I have not tried feeding her for this waking, but I don't know what else would be waking her up.

Any suggestions? I don't see anything that could be going on in the routine except for her not wanting much food at the 7pm feeding. Should I not be cluster feeding anymore? I can't imagine that we would get through the night any better with LESS calories in her system from dropping the cluster feed.

Please help!

[deb]

"I'll take 'Three-month Growth Spurt' for $200 please, Alex!"

Sorry, too much Diet Coke while I try to stay functional today. LOL

Anyway, it's possible that the growth spurt is upon you! This may also be part of the short-nap thing - was in Josie's case, anyway. Because of that waking, she never really got fully back to sleep and was waking up tired, so her first A time was only an hour, so her first nap was only 45 minutes, and and and......we ended up with an OT baby despite 4-6 of those 45-minute naps daily.

One thing Tracy had us try was giving her a "snack" feed at naptime. First I tried keeping her awake for an hour and 20 minutes, at first only managed an hour and 10-15, playing quietly in dim light with a soft toy to try to keep her going. When she could barely hold her eyes open any more, I offered one breast, let her nurse, and put her down. Sometimes she'd fall asleep on the breast, sometimes not, but by then I was so tired of the cycle I was just happy she was ASLEEP! Anyway, after a few days, the extra feeds not only got more calories into her but also helped my own supply increase. No more hungry baby, no more night wakings, no more short naps! (We also had to learn to extend her naps to break the 45-minute wake-up habit, but by then it was pretty firmly established and that took maybe a week to get consistent.)

HTH!