Just popping on to see if anyone thinks starting the dreamfeed now at 12 weeks might be worth a try. For the last few weeks my DS has been consistently waking 2x in the night and the first waking has been getting earlier, now at around 12:30am (last night it was 11:45pm!) when he used to sleep a 7 hour stretch (sometimes more) every night and only wake once.. At first I figured it was a growth spurt as he was eating more during the day too but now it's been a couple weeks so I'm not sure what's going on? I feed him both times he wakes and he will eat for a bit but doesn't seem starving or anything and then is not really hungry in the morning. I wonder if doing the dreamfeed at 10:30 or so might encourage a longer stretch? We tried it initially but it made no difference and he still woke a couple hours later but when we let him wake on his own he WAS doing a much longer stretch of first sleep, however not anymore. I'm hesitant to try it this late in the game for fear it could just encourage him to wake more and earlier in the night...
Here is our current EASY:
Wake and eat 7:15
Activity 7:15-8:30
Sleep 8:30-10:30
Eat 10:30
Activity 10:30-11:45
Sleep 11:45-1:15 (this nap is often disrupted as we usually are out and about here with toddler so he sleeps in his car seat normally)
Eat 1:30
Activity 1:15-2:30
Sleep 2:30-4:30
Eat 4:30
Activity 4:30-6
Sleep 6-6:45
E 7
Activity 6:45-8
Eat 8
Sleep 8:15
Then waking around 12:30, then again somewhere between 3:30-4:30am
Thanks for any advice!
*I should add he goes into his bed awake and falls asleep independently at bedtime