Please help. DS is waking up at night every 30 min-1hr sometimes, starting around 2. Other nights, he sleeps right til 4 or 5. I have tried to figure out the difference b/t these nights, but there seems to be no difference. He has been taking a feed b/t 5-6 for 4 months now, and I read somewhere that night feeds can sometimes cause NW. Once they learn they don't eat at night, then they may wake less. So we did the "1 fewer oz. each night" method, and he did ok with it. Last night was only 2 oz. of water & tonight will be nothing, so we'll see. He is hungry at wake up time now, which is good, bc he never used to be bc of that feed.
Anyway, as soon as we give him his paci, he goes right back to sleep, so I know everyone's gonna say to wean the paci, and that is our next step, but could something else be causing it if he's only waking the last half of the night & some nights not at all? There are even times he falls asleep on his own without the paci, so IDK how dependent he is on it. It's just the quickest way to get him back to sleep. (plus we needed to keep it to wean off that feeding.)
DH is very close to CIO which I don't want. I have a bad back & don't like PU/PD anyway, so I was going to try just patting & using my voice til he goes to sleep. Is that ok? Anyone else's kid do this that doesn't use a paci? what was causing it? TIA!
