My son, Josh, who is now 5 1/2 months old and has been waking up at night almost every 2 1/2 hours for a month. He was sleeping well before that time, only waking up once at 4 am. When he first started waking up at night, I thought that he might have been hungry so I nursed him and then put him back into bed. However, it turned out that he was teething because his two bottom teeth came out a couple of weeks ago. Even though his teeth have come out, he's still waking up at night. My fear is that I've done some accidental parenting and now he likes to wake up because he knows he'll be fed. My plan is to record the times when he wakes up at night to see if they are at the same time or at random times to determine if he's waking up out of hunger or out of habit. Is there anything else I should be doing to solve this mystery? Also, my son is still on a 2 hour schedule during the day and is only taking 45 minute naps. Could this also be the problem to his nighttime sleep? Should I be trying to put him on a 4 hour schedule and do the PU/PD when he wakes up from his 45 min nap even though he wakes up happy? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Linda