Hello, i'm just at a loss to know what to do next with dd waking up every morning way before her first feed is due. She is now 5 months old and stopped feeding in the night at 2 months. We still DF but this is very small these days - about 4oz. Our day starts at 8am (supposedly), but for weeks and weeks she has been waking up at 6.30/6.45, chattering away and is almost impossible to put back to sleep - the only thing that works is for me to sit with her in my arms, still swaddled and in the dark. For the last 4 nights i have been getting up at 5.30am to do wake to sleep, but there is absolutely no improvement. In fact today she woke at 6.15. I haven't fed her at all when she wakes up - I'm sure she'd drink some if it was offered, but i really don't believe she is starving hungry as sometimes she doesn't even take a full bottle of 8oz at 8am. I'm also scared to get into a habit of her expecting a feed at 6.30am. In Tracey's book it says if the wake-up time is always the same then it's a habit, not necessarily hunger.
So where do i go now? Do i keep going with WTS and for how long (even though i just don't believe it will work), do i need to fully wake her up at 5.30am instead (and then spend however long it takes getting her back to sleep, in the hope she will then go through to 8am), do i drop the dream feed (could it be that the DF is disturbing her sleep pattern?), or what else could i do?
Waking up early like this is just throwing all of the routine off track as she's due her naps practically straight after she's fed, which isn't ideal during the daytime. Please help me, i'm just so tired and confused! Txs
