My DS is 16wkd and I've been very slowly trying to get him on an EASY routine for last few weeks. We are slowly getting there as I've been experimenting a bit with A time.
He goes to bed at 7pm, and used to sleep through until 6ish but recently we've hit the 4month sleep regression a bit early and he tends to wake twice now. He doesn't yet have a DF (we tried to implement one in the past but he would never stir enough to eat) and tends to wake anywhere between 2:30-3:45 first. When he wakes he lies there relatively quietly making the odd "squeak" (his new voice he's discovered during the day which he does when happy) and sucking his hand frantically. He doesn't really cry out for us. We've tried leaving him a while (30mins this morning!) to see if he'll self settle but he just continues to make the odd little noise, kick his feet (he is not swaddled) and suck his habd.
I'm at a loss as to how I should handle this. I'm inclined to leave him given he isn't crying and showing no obvious cues, but equally he can't ever settle himself back to sleep. We've tried feeding him, in which case he feeds well and then goes back to sleep til about 5:30 at which point we shush pat him back on and off until 7am. We've also tried shush patting him back to sleep (then he does start crying but it still doesn't always sound like a feed cry time) and then he wakes at 5:30 starving!
Do you think he could be hungry (and that's why he's sucking his hands) or would you hold off on feeding him because he's not actually crying?
