whats your thoughts

So we worked on CIO and dd is sleeping from about 7pm-6am now. Yeah. DS is sleeping from 7pm-430-5ish. I was told not to feed him it was just habit waking this early and he will start sleeping longer. He's not. Everyone keeps telling me he is probably hungry. He is a big boy 21lbs his last feed is just before bed at around 6:30 and solids is around 5pm. So now I am feeding him and he is waking earlier and earlier. I don't have a problem feeding him but he then plays for about 1 hour. Should I still be feeding him during the night at 7 months or do you think it is just a habit for him.

 

Tough one. I don't think he 'needs' the feeding, so if it were me, I would probably work on stretching him a bit longer.

 

Hi!

I agree with PP. I would try to stretch it a little bit. My DS always wakes at 5. He babbles for a short while and always falls back asleep. I only go into their room if they are really crying. Otherwise, I don't go into their rooms until 6:30 or 7.

I've read in HSHHC that once they know you will go to them they'll just keep getting up earlier for your company.

Good Luck! I hope your DS catches a few extra zzz's.

 

I agree with PP's but I'd also just like to throw out there that HSHHC says that babies may reasonably need to eat at night up until NINE months of age, so don't beat yourself up too much (or get too frustrated with him!) if you can't get this rectified right away. You can always try again in a few months. One of my sons went through a stage of EARLY morning waking & wanting to play, play, play right around your boy's age... it was short-lived (I never indulged it and always put him right back into his crib). So, there's hope!

GL!!

 

ditto with trying to stretch it or even trying some CIO, but if it doesn't work in a few nights you know he is hungry and needs to eat. But if he is getting enough during the day I would feel comfortable not feeding him, since I was bfing that was always a little tough!

 

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So we worked on CIO and dd is sleeping from about 7pm-6am now. Yeah. DS is sleeping from 7pm-430-5ish. I was told not to feed him it was just habit waking this early and he will start sleeping longer. He's not. Everyone keeps telling me he is probably hungry. He is a big boy 21lbs his last feed is just before bed at around 6:30 and solids is around 5pm. So now I am feeding him and he is waking earlier and earlier. I don't have a problem feeding him but he then plays for about 1 hour. Should I still be feeding him during the night at 7 months or do you think it is just a habit for him.

What did you decide to do? I have a 9.5 month old that goes to sleep at 7:00 and also wakes between 4 and 5. I have been feeding him and I am sure it is habit. I tried the past to nights to let him cry. He screamed for 45 min and went to sleep for 30 min and then cried again so I wimped out and went in. It was so much easier to sleep train when they could not stand up and yell mama or dada. I am curious to see what others have experienced.

 

Mine got up once a night up until almost the end of 9 months and they were at least 20 pounds too. It didnt matter what time because he always downed a bottle and then I would put him back to bed either awake or half asleep. If he was awake, I left him and he was pretty quiet and would usually fall back to sleep. Once he started playing with his bottle and not eating much I took longer and longer to get to him and he eventually STTN on his own. Just my experience. It sounds like he is so close to STTN.

 

So I took peoples advice and didn't feed him the first night. He woke at 3;30 he cried and fussed for an hour and went back to sleep until 530am. Then this morning he woke at 5am talked a little and didn't get up till 7am. Yippee.... We will see what tonight brings but at least I know he can go until 7 am and I am not starving him.

 

Wow this is so much like what I just posted. One of my girls does the same thing, she keeps waking up at 3:30 or 4 am to play, she isn't hungry. It stinks so bad! Mine wake up at 5:30 am at the LATEST.