DS is coming up to 10 months. I'm happy with his sleep overall but 3 nights in a row this week he slept 12 hours straight so I know he can do it. Then last night he woke at about 4, and tonight it's been 1 AND 5! So back to our usual routine of 6:30-1:00-4:00-6:30. And now he's given me those 3 full nights' sleep, I am in a mood with him for waking up tonight.
I was fast asleep at 1, so didn't realise DH had got up and fed him then. At 5 I offered him just water but it didn't cut the mustard so I gave him a bottle. Changed him as he was v wet. So now I don't know if he was hungry or if he woke cos he's wet. DH said maybe he's growing so needs night feeds.
But all the pros say a 10mo shouldn't need feeding in the night and I tend to agree on logic. He eats tons in the day, 3 big meals and 3 or 4 7oz bottles on average. Snacks as well sometimes.
So do I just grit my teeth and only offer water? Was speaking to the leader of a baby group and she said if someone woke you up in the night to give you a biscuit you'd probably start waking up expecting it 
He's gone to sleep again now which is not what I expected so yay :) but now I'm wide awake!
Anyway sorry for rambling. Basically does he need feeing or not??
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BendydickCuminsnatch · 19/03/2016 05:52
Ok thanks both, I'll take your advice! Of course he might wake for reasons other than hunger, didn't think of that 
Tonight we are going to just try and comfort him back to sleep without food. Thing is he wakes up very happy and energetic and the longer we leave him (to see if he settles himself back to sleep/plays by himself until he's tired again) he just gets sadder and sadder until we feed him, so at that point I will doubt myself and think he's hungry.
Have stopped bringing him in to our bed in the early hours too as he just crawls around and also likes to sleep on his front which I don't like him doing when he's in with us.
So preparing myself to be up for a couple of hours tonight!
Thanks for replying :)
Hey Channel.
DS automatically sort of fit this routine as he is always way more up for sleep in the morning vs the afternoon, and then I discovered it's an actual schedule so we adopted it and it works really well for us (well, worked ).
2 hrs after waking up for the day = nap 1
3 hrs after getting up from nap 1 = nap 2
4 hrs after getting up from nap 2 = bedtime
So for us he's generally awake 6:30-8:30, 10:30-1:30, 2:30-6:30. Makes for a neat 12 hr day.
It was a relief to get into this schedule once he was out of the sleeping every 90 mins kind of stage and when getting him down for a 3rd catnap was a fight. I try to be pretty baby-led and he was ready for a routine like this.
Also prior to this schedule he would only sleep for maybe half an hour each nap which was soooooo frustrating. Now I get a couple of hours to get stuff done! 
Up until this week he usually woke twice (rarely more) every night, with naps in the day as above.
This week he's generally gone 12 hrs at night but not napped pm.
So I dunno what is going on Ahhhh why do they always have to mix things up as soon as you settle in to a routine . Illness, teething etc doesn't help either haha.
Oh god I know! Teething is an actual nightmare! Poor little things.
I'll stop hijacking your thread now - thanks for the advice 
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