7 month old DS (was 5 weeks premature if that makes a difference) has recently started waking in the night and I'm not sure what the best way to deal with it is.
He goes to bed at 6.45/7, takes a dream feed at 11 and used to sleep until 6-7am. I know we are incredibly lucky with this. We have recently come back from a holiday in the US (3 weeks ago) and since we have come back he has started waking an average of three or four times between 2am and 6 am. DH or I will go into him, give him his soother and he usually goes right back to sleep. Again, I know that as far as interrupted sleep goes, this barely registers but I would like to try to get him back to sleeping right through.
I don't know whether we are creating a rod for our back by getting up every time? Are we making the "problem" worse? Should we wait to see if he self settles? I'm worried that if we do that he will wake up fully and upset himself and then he'll be awake for hours. Or should we just be very grateful that he'll go straight back to sleep and just accept that we'll have to get up a couple of times a night.
I know this is very minor compared to the sleep issues a lot of others have, but if I can't ask here where can I ask?