DD was a wonderful sleeper. She goes to bed awake and can fall back asleep should she wakes in the middle of the night. Nothing in her day has changed much other than the fact that I think that she is in the midst of dropping a nap. The majority of the time, she would take 2- 1.5 hr naps during the day and sleep around 11 hrs at night. However, for the last week, she would whine/moan off and on at around 4 am. By 5:45 am, I had to go get her. She used to wake very happy at around 6 - 6:30 am.
After eliminating several factors (illness, sep anxiety, noise, temp of room, etc), I suspect taht the reason is hunger due to teething. Her intake of food and milk has decrease ( due to teething or independence?) during the day and thus she is hungry in the early morning hour. I can't seem to get any more food in her during the day and I have tried increasing her bedtime bottle to 12 oz but these early morning episodes are still here. Should I give her the bottle at that time and put her back to bed? Or should I try the df?
BTW, dd is 12 mos and she hasn't had a bottle in the middle night since she was 4-5 mos.
