My 14 week and 2 day old baby girl wakes up every morning at 4am!! We have been on EASY since the day she came home. During the day her schedule is sporatic as my mom watches her while I work, so it is difficult for Grandma to maintain a schedule!! She eats about 6 oz every three hours from 7am until 8:30pm when she goes down. She takes about 1 to 1.5 hour naps during the day until 5pm when we try to keep her awake until 8:00, put her in the bath, give her a bottle, and put her down wide awake in her crib. She puts her head down doesn't make a peep and is out by 9:00, bedtime is the easiest part of our day!! We don't hear from her until 4am every morning, sometime between 4 and 4:15 she starts crying, and we have always given her a bottle. We have worked the bottle down to 3.5 ounces, last night we tried 3oz, she fussed for a few minutes, but went right back to sleep until around 7:00 am.
We have moved her bedtime later by one hour. When we laid her down at 7:30 she would wake up crying around 3:00am. I don't want to keep her from eating if she is hungry, but it seems like a habit to me. We have already weaned her of the pacifier as it became a sleep prop, but she has been falling asleep on her own with no fuss since she was 2 weeks old. When she was still using the pacifier she would fall back to sleep sucking before the bottle was warm, so we would have to wake her to give her the bottle. Do I continue the feeding??? Please Help, She is a big baby, 8lb 6oz at birth, now close to 14.5 lbs.
Marleys Mommy
