Am I mad?

Cooper's routine at night is:
Feed at 5.30 - 6.00
Bath, pjs
More feed
Quiet time in bedroom, singing etc
Then in bed by 6.45

I sometimes have to settle him a couple of times, by most of the time he is asleep by 7.00ish.

He then wakes around 12ish for another fed, back down and then up again around 4.00ish. He's done this since 6weeks old.

Now this is where it turns to custard. He goes down after that feed fine, but only for around an hour and a half. The last 3 days we've been up again around half five and he thinks it's playtime.

Now for my question. DO you think i'd be mad to wake him tonight, say around 10.00 to feed him? I'm normally of the "don't wake a sleeping baby" kinda thinking, but part of me wants to see if feeding him then will "trick" him into not waking at 12 but maybe 2 or 3 then sleeping from that feed till 6ish.

Or am I just dreaming? Should I just let him make his own routines???

I say give it a go! I gave all my girls a "dream feed" at around 10pmish before I went to bed and to start with it got them thru till 3amish, but eventually they were sleeping thru till 7am. Plunket first recommended it with Maya to "fill her up" for the night and it worked beautifully and had her sleeping right thru by 7 weeks so I did it again with the gremlins and again it worked beautifully, altho they were closer to 4 mnths before they started sleeping thru.

OK, will have a go!!

I guess I'm just a bit nervous that I'll stuff the whole thing up!!

No harm in trying. Good luck

And again at 2.50 and then again at 4.40!!!!

After just trying to fed, but mucking about for the majority of the time, he is now in his bed having a major melt down!

Time to go back in..............

Sparkle.. did you see what shell wrote in our august thread about getting babes to sleep through?? you should check it out..

I second giving it another go.. if its anything like my house, nothing ever works first time!

When kylah wakes at 7.30 she lies there for half an hour babbling and giggling to herself lmao its so cute

lol, kylah has this toy its called baby tad.. she LOVES it!! it plays night time music for 6mins and she falls asleep to it easy as..

Sorry sparkle for thread jacking..

Hey Sparkle sounds like you had a rough night, I third giving it another go, you changed his routine last night and it upset him but he will learn the new one.
Also like Kylah said try using a dummy or something other than food to settle him, when he woke at 12.45 I doubt it was from hunger and probably more from habit.

A few suggestions for tonight.
Did you wake him up at the dream feed? If so don't tonight, put him in a nappy combo that will last 12 hours, pick up softly and quietly and keep his room darkened, don't talk to him, there is no need to burp him, just feed and put back in bed. I could feed spencer with his eyes never opening. The rooting and sucking reflex does it all in their sleep.

If you didn't wake him, try waking him up. My friends baby would never take a full feed whilst still asleep so she always wakes him up at 10.30 to feed him. Change his nappy first in a bright room, and if he falls asleep feeding wake him up until he has fed properly.

I'm not sure what you do when he wakes at night, but I never change Spencers nappy unless there has been a poo explosion or other leakage, I feed him in his room in the dark (well enough light so that I don't stick the bottle in his eye socket) and put him straight back to bed, that way all though he has woken up for a feed he hasn't fully woken up and he settles himself back to sleep within 5 mins. If he wakes up and it is less than 4 hours since his last feed I never feed him (or only as a totally last resort).

Better luck for tonight and remember it can take up to a week for them to adjust to a new routine (and then your 3 month growth spurt will hit)

PS - just saw cuppateas reply - I completely agree!