5 am Feed--hunger or habit 7 mos???

[kaynay]

7 mos no DF waking at 5 am regularly for a few weeks eat and goes back to sleep til 730ish...but every few days will have a fussy night and mantra cry around 4am then go back to sleep til morning... on the mornings he has the 5am feed his 8 am feed is anywhere from 1-4 oz as compared to a morning where he doesnt have the 5am feed when then he eats 8 oz...so keep feeding at 5 or do PuPd I really think he is ready for it...I dont want to be feeding at 5am forever and he is getting older and that will be hard to break-thoughts?? Heres our easy

730wake
8 eat formula 1-8 oz depending on the 5 am wake or not
9 eat solids 2-3 tbs fruit
1030/11 sleep 1.5 hrs
12/1230 eat expressed breastmilk 7-9 oz
1 eat solids 2 tbs squash or sweet potatoes
3/330 sleep 1- 1.5 hr
430ish eat expressed breastmilk 8 oz
5ish---will add 3rd solids here today
730 eat expressed breastmilk 7-9 oz
745 sleep
5 am ? most nights eats and goes back to sleep until 7ish unless fussy earlier in night like 130 or 4 he resettles himself easier earlier in the night past 3 am if he is restless he resettles but its harder for him and then he wakes closer to 630 am
so the 5am is confusion how do you stop it? I know he can be ok without it but enjoy being able to go back to sleep after since if he doesnt eat at 5 he wakes earlier for the day ...thoughts?
when he wakes he babbles and talks rarely cries out

[kaynay]

Yes Bfing at that time...any thoughts we had a few days this weekend he went til 630 and til 545...but then back to 5 am...I am trying to increase solids slowyly but at lunch he hardly eats solids so I added dinner if i mix fruit with rice cereal he will eat it...so far he is mostly into fruits and once a day I mix the fruit with rice cereal at "dinner" but that is not helping...I cant make his bottle any bigger he takes anywhere from 7-10oz already!?
Thoughts or just ride it out for another month this 5 am thing?

[kaynay]

settling without a feed he will just mantra his way til 7 and we have a toddler in the house I would prefer not to wake any earlier than we have to...no I have not tried water?hmmm...as for the breast he is on for 10 min he seems really hungry then is it normal at this age or time to wean generally?

[kaynay]

ok heres my next question as the past few days he seems to be stretching til 530 or 6...some mornings I feed him and put him back and he goes right back to sleep until I wake him at 730 and today he ate at 615 babbled and fell asleep at 7 I woke him 730 so he seems to be stretching and I dont want to start the day before 730 as that would totally mess everythign up I still top on at 730 even if its only a few ozs...is this in line...? I am a bit confused if he is stretching a little longer if to start the day then or just let him rest til realy wake up time almost alwasy he goes back to sleep right away or shortly after means he is still tired cuz at 5 or 6 am wake up would be 10 night not enough for him...make sense?