anyone had success with wake to sleep for habitial night wakening?

[Gage and Sophie's Mom]

Hi I am going to attempt wake to sleep to cure my son's habitial 4-6 am wakenings? He wakes, eats and stays awake for an hour grunting and cooing. This is fine but it is making morning A time and nap impossible. Has anyone gone through this experience? What did you do? Do you have any tips? I have already been duliting his bottle, and I am thinking of doing the wake to sleep method.

[Jo-FrasersMum]

Hi there

Is Gage waking at the same time every night?

[Gage and Sophie's Mom]

yes, he always wakes between 4-6am and stays awake for an hourish and then falls back to sleep. We started feeding him during this time as he was hungry when he was younger, but now I think it is just habitual. He does go back to sleep on his own but then he is super tired in the morning.

[Jo-FrasersMum]

Hi

An habitual waking is when your DS is waking at the EXACT same time each night.  With a 2 hour window like you have, I don't think that the waking is habitual and I'm not sure how you would go with trying wake to sleep. 

I think as long as Gage knows how to fall asleep independently, he might just still need you to help him at that time for the time being. 

Good luck
Jo