Our DS slept through from about 10 weeks for a couple of months. After lulling us into a false sense of security he decided that actually he quite liked waking up! At first it wasn't too bad and I still fed him as I couldn't be sure it wasn't food he needed. However he has gone from one feed a night to 2/3/4 (if I let him!).
He doesn't go to bed at night straight after being fed and I always make sure he is awake when he goes down. Getting to sleep is no problem for him, he doesn't fuss and is alseep within a few minutes of being put down. During the night however it has become a nightmare and DH and I are slowly coming to our wits end. I feel as though I have run out of approaches to take, sitting in a corner and crying feels like the only thing left!
DS sometimes wakes early evening, an hour or so after going down, cries a little bit (less than a minute) and gets himself back to sleep. He is then waking again around 12-1am, I gently put my hand on him tummy and he eventually gets himself back off to sleep (usually). This can take anywhere up to half an hour but is usually less. The next wake is the complete nightmare. This morning it was just gone 2am and he was up for over an hour and a half. DH took him downstairs (we have 2 others) where ds cried for almost the whole time. I finally fed him (not that DH wanted me to but I really needed to sleep!). DS fed fine, went into his cot awake and got himself back to sleep in about 5 minutes. He was up again this morning at just gone 7am.
Where we are both at a loss is why he was sleeping through and then only waking once a night to waking 3 times and staying awake for at least one of them!!!! If I feed him to try and get him down again (which I have done when reallllllyyyyyyy tired) then he just starts waking more so I no longer do that. I have moved downstairs with him so I can lie by his cot and try to calm him without picking him up (resting my hand on him), and have also tried the pick up put down. Any advice or new ideas would be gratefully received . . . . .