Hi - I am new to this but a religious reader and follower of the Baby Whisperer. My daughter is nearly 5 months old and we have been an the EASY schedule since she came home from the hospital. I would say she is a textbook/angel baby. She has always been a good sleeper and a good eater. I exclusively breast feed, we are on a 4 hours schedule and she takes about 2 - 3 tbsp of cereal in the evenings. I nurse her at 7:30 and dream feed at 10 or shortly after, with a bottle - she typically takes about 5 ounces. She takes the standard 1 1/2 nap in the morning, 1 1/2 - 2 hour in the afternoon and a catnap about 5 or 5:30. She goes to bed very easily and puts herself to sleep at night and for naps.
The last three weeks, she has been waking between 3 and 4 in the morning. Some nights she will settle with a pacifier and go back down and some nights she needs to eat and then will go back to sleep. I am struggling with what to do with her. I am not sure if it's hunger or a habit she has started and I have reinforced. I do not rush in, I let her try to get herself back to sleep and sometimes she does, but when she does, it's just a matter of 30 minutes or so and she is awake again. There are nights she would continue that until I finally get her up at 7. I have read many of the posts already on the board and just am not sure what to do or try.
Any suggestions? Thank you so much!
