Hello,
My LO is now 6 mo. For the past 2 months, he has been sleeping at 7pm but then wakes up between 5 and 6am (usually around 5:45am) and then goes back to sleep after a bottle until around 8-9am. If he had a bad day with minimal naps, he wakes up around 2 or 3am for a feed and then sleeps until around 7am. Although he goes back to sleep after this "night waking", I would like to eliminate it if possible, but he has never slept more than 11 hours in his life. Also, I would like our day to start at 7-7:30am (8-9am is a bit late for us) so I am not sure whether I should wake him at 7:30am after he was up at 5:45am until 6:30am, and at 7:30am he would likely not be hungry. Any tips on how to eliminate this night waking or what I should do to get him back on a 7-7 EASY. I have tried different ways of trying to soothe him back to sleep, but he is just frantic for the bottle. I have also tried keeping him up and starting his day at 5:45am (well, leaving him in the crib until 6am), but it is not ideal because it is too early and his crying wakes up my 4.5 year old. By way of background, he can soothe himself to sleep, he is bottle-fed with mostly breastmilk and started solids a few weeks ago (but is not fully established on solids). His EASY looks like this:
wake up, E - 8am
A
S - 10am
wake up, E - 11:30am
A
S - 1:30pm
wake up, E - 3pm
A
S - 5pm maybe cat nap
Bedtime - 7pm
Because his days can start at 7, 8 or 9 and his naps vary from 45 to 2.5 hours long, I may or may not give him a cat nap at the end of the day. If he wakes up from his 2nd nap after 4, then I hold him out until a 6:30 to 7 bedtime. If he wakes up from his 2nd nap before 4, then I try to give him a catnap to tie him over to bedtime. His A time is now 2 hours and 10 minutes, but I am slowly increasing it.
Any advice on how to fix his EASY and/or eliminate the 5:45am waking would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you!!!