My 14 week old little poppet is consistently waking at 3 or 4ish and is wide awake and shouting for attention. He dream feeds well at 11pm and has a good 7ozs.
When he wakes at 3 or 4, he's not interested in food (unless he refuses to settle for about an hour and finally gets hungry). All he wants to do is sit on my shoulder and look around him at his night lamp or the pictures on the walls. If I try to settle him back down he protests enough to wake up the entire street. He spits out his dummy and screeches if I try to cradle him back to sleep. He doesn't want to look at his mobile either.
Ideally, I'd like to pop him in his cot and ignore him until he settles himself since he doesn't want feeding but I'm aware of disturbing sleeping DH and that he's not old enough to cry it out (although he's not really crying, just shouting in an annoyed "come and cuddle me" voice.
Any tips? Do I indulge him and cuddle him for an hour or do I leave him to shout it out? Am I teaching him that if he shouts mummy will always come or is he too young for that?
The other problem is that if he does feed at 4 or 5 am after being awake for an hour he doesn't want his breakfast. Its now 9am and he's still not interested in his bottle which is a bugger when I'm trying to get him into some sort of routine.
Please help!