I think that my DD Zoey who is 10 weeks old may be waking habitually. The reason I suspect this is because she ALWAYS wakes 6 hours after going to sleep for the night. If I get her down at 8pm, she will wake at 2am. If she doesn't go down until 8:30pm, she will wake at 2:30am. Last week, she woke at 11:30pm (hadn't eaten much in the evening so I guess she was hungry) and was back to sleep by 12:00am. She slept that night right through until 6am.
I give her a dreamfeed every night at 11:00pm and she still wakes up at 2-2:30am (depending on the bedtime). Surely she should be able to go longer than 3 hours at night without eating...especially since she proved that the other day sleeping 12-6am! Last night when she woke at 2:30am she did not have a full feed and fell asleep at the breast. I tried to wake her but she was out. I suspect she would wake at the exact same time even without the dreamfeed (in which case I would think she is hungry) and I intend to try that out tonight.
If I try to just put her back to sleep at this time she cries so I always end up just feeding her. She doesn't take a soother so giving her one would not work (besides I think it's just as bad as feeding her).
I read in Tracy's book to try setting an alarm an hour earlier and to wake her up a bit (wake to sleep). I wonder if anyone has ever had any success with this?? Wouldn't the dreamfeed accomplish the same thing? Would I go in at 1-1:30am and wake her a bit even if we did an 11pm dreamfeed?
Shannon
