My 7-week-old DS is in the 90th percentile for height/weight. He usually would wake around 2:30-4am, crying out for a feed. Within the past week, he stopped taking full feeds at this feeding and only started taking about 1oz (over the course of 1/2 hour). I figured maybe he isn't really hungry and is just habitually waking. (He goes to sleep around 7pm and I do a dreamfeed around 10:30pm). So after noticing this pattern for a couple of nights, I started experimenting and stopped going in when he wakes in the middle of the night. He doesn't cry out or anything at this time, and he doesn't even really fuss. You can just tell that he's awake, and it seems like eventually (perhaps an hour later?) he falls asleep on his own, with no intervention from me--although I lie there in bed the whole time listening to him. This is the second day after I stopped going in, and he's been waking around 5ish, and taking a monstrous feed (6 or 7oz compared to 4-5 oz previously). And I've also noticed that he eats that much during the day as well, usually in a 3-hour interval. This is a big change from what he was eating last week, and I'm not concerned that he's overweight or anything (he was born in the 90th percentile for height and weight), and I'm wondering if this will be the new norm? Is it a big deal that I don't go in there if he's not crying out for food? He seems to be making it up during the day, and is likely also going through a growth spurt (his naps are crazy these days).
