Sleep

[overduemamma]

So I've been putting my 5 month old to bed round about 9pm for a month. She used to wake once in the night for a feed then would usually sleep till 8/9am. I started giving her porridge about a week ago and she started sleeping through. The past 2 nights she's woke for a night feed and started waking up at 6am. Any ideas as to why she's doing this? I thought I had fracked the sleeping through (yes I know I'm lucky she only woke once). Just feels like we've gone back a step a little.

She's a baby. These things always change and ebb and flow, you aren't doing anything wrong.

Sleeping till 8/9 after a night feed was a nice phase but it is over now.

It is normal for children to wake between 6 and 7. Expect this phae to last a number of years.

Our LO is 9 months and sleep has only become consistent in the last month or so. LO sleeps 8pm to 6/7am just now.
Weaning, teething, illness etc has causes sleep to be all over the place at times. We take good sleep when we get it and know that it can change at any time. I'm sure it will settle more as your baby gets older.

If you have an alternate method to settle, I'd try very hard to settle without feeding.

It may be that baby needs more milk in the daytime. Try bigger bottles or more frequent, so she has more bottles per day.

She's teething at the minute so I think that's contributing to it all. I just thought I had cracked it that's all :( x