Mine was always fully awake for the DF, after the first few weeks of lifting him to feed at that time, and he would wake, he then always woke when that feed was due out of habit (I would try the different time as Laura siad as that works for lots of people, not us though as DS just would not feed when asleep). The only difference I felt was that when it came to weaning it as he would wake habitually so I reduce the amount over a few days and then did a kind of W2S to shush/pat him when he started stirring for the feed. I remember being quite nervous of that wean but as with most things my nerves were worse than the actual event of doing it.