I was hoping someone could help or had experienced similar. My DS is 8 months and has been sleeping through the night with no feeds since 15 weeks. He did have a 10.30pm dream feed until about 6.5 months but since then has had last feed at 7pm then not again until 7am. We often have times when he has needed resettling in the night, but never had to feed him to achieve this.
Well, the last two nights he has woken around 4am, initially it seemed teething related (lots of complaining and chewing on dummy) but both times nothing has been able to stop him crying (changed nappy, cuddles, pain relief medicine, teetha, teething gel etc) except a full milk feed, after which he has happily gone back in his cot and slept until 7 - 7.30am. This is so out of character as he is an excellent self settler, so I can only assume he is genuinely hungry as both nights any attempt for me to leave him in the cot has been met with hysterics, until he was fed then he was happy to be left as usual.
Had anyone else had this around 8 months, or does anyone know if its common at this time? He is fully weaned and has 3 good meals a day plus 4 bottles of usually around 5oz although last of the day tends to be closer to 9oz. Other info is that he has no teeth yet (but my DD didn't get her first until 14 months so I think we produce late teethers) and he is crawling and pulling to standing a lot, so quite active. Any thoughts appreciated.