How do you conquer early wakings? I have posted on the EASY forum and someone commented the early waking could be the problem. DD is 14 weeks old breastfed and wakes once in the night. She isn't a huge eater throughput the day but always cluster feeds of an evening. She goes to bed at 7 - 7.15pm and until recently was waking between 11 and 1am now I leave her until after 2am and she normally just goes back to sleep. Until 2 maybe 3am has a good feed (best in the 24hr period) then goes back to sleep no problems. At about 4.10am she wakes again and I leave her again and she settles until 5.10 -5.10 then she is awake and while I do leave her to see what she will do she has so far started to cry and then Been up for the day.
So I wanted to know if anyone has had success in extending EW? If so how.
Should I just go in and feed her at 5.10 or when she wakes. When she gets up at this time and comes out tonthe lounge she never wants to eat!!! If she does we are talking a few mins so I wonder if she is indeed hungry.
A friend of mine said I should leave her otherwise it will become habitual waking?
Because of the early waking and not going to bed until 7pm is she waking out of tiredness. Should she be going to bed at 6pm instead.
My ds who is almost 3 was and still is a nightmare at bed and always wakes at 5.30am and now with her waking he is getting up at 5am. I know he is always so tired from this and I do believe I could have prevented this behavior with a little perseverance but I clearly missed that boat with him. I want to do my very best for DD and learn from mistakes so any advice is greatly appreciated.
Many thanks
