waking up through the night

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15 week old DD was fairly settled in routine bed time 9pm usually sleeping for 9.30pm then up in the morning around 8am-9am.

However the last 4/5 nights she has been waking at 5am. I fed her the first and second mornings but after that have just been trying to settle her- takes a while but she does go back to sleep.

Should I be feeding her at 5am? I don't want to start this as routine however I wouldn't like to think she's hungry? If she has 5am feed she is still up as normal at 8am-9am.

It depends if she is hungry not with DS if he's hungry he crys and is very unsettled and could take until he exhausts himself crying before he would go back to sleep then hunger would wake him again shortly after. If she's hungry she would likely not go back to sleep or wake again within an hour-ish so I would just continue to resettle her I think 9.30 to 5 is amazing at her age so I wouldn't want to ruin that by getting her used to feeding to sleep.

I am telling myself that if she was hungry she wouldn't go back to sleep or be back up within the hour.

This morning she didn't guzzle her feed as if she was starving and wasn't screaming for it while I made it.

She's a good sleeper at night but during the day she only takes about 3 40min naps. Shes very demanding/ needs constant stimulation. Therefore I'm exhausted by 8pm.

I was hoping to move her into her own bedroom as she had been doing so well her cot is literally jammed into our bedroom and blocks off the door to our toilet so we need the space.

Theresa famous sleep regression at four months, so that could well be it. With a baby that young things change all the time - suddenly she might be in a growth spurt and need a night feed even though she didn't before.

It's more common than not for babies her age to need a night feed.

That said, my son only moved from two-hourly feeds at night at six months, so this might influence my opinion a little - he's never gone more than seven hours between feeds, and he's almost ten months now

If she wakes up again I think I am going to feed her. She happily took the whole 7oz bottle, had her nappy changed and went back to sleep the nights when I fed her.