20 week old wakes at 5.06 every morning - why?

[issywoo]

my ds is 20 weeks and has never really slept thru the whole night. he goes down like a dream at 7pm and then wakes at 5.06 exactly every morning. if i give him the dummy he hooks it around his finger and takes it out. if i feed him he'll take it but then not feed properly at 7am. the dream feed makes no difference and the solids haven't improved things. am i doing something wrong? he has a 7oz bottle at 7am and 10.30. fruit puree at 11.30 another 6oz bottle at 2.30 and veg and babyrice at 4.30 and the final bottle at 6.45pm
any tips? am a bit cheesed off now!

Well, tbh issy, if my ds had slept 10 hours straight at 20 weeks I would've been in 7th heaven

Sorry, that's probably not much help but what I mean is I don't think that you're doing anything 'wrong' as such. Is there any way you could hold off the feed until 7am even if he wakes at 5? Perhaps then he would sleep a bit longer. Is there anything going on outside (binmen, milkman, central heating going on etc) that might be waking him up at that time every day? Sounds silly but my ds gets woken by the dawn chorus some mornings.

IMO that's pretty good sleep anyway so try not to get too stressed about it - but I know how annoying those early mornings can be!

My DS1 (19 months) used to go to bed at 6pm and then wake at 6.30/7 during the week and sometimes 8 on weekends when no one else was moving round to get ready for work. Since ds2's arrival 13 weeks ago he wakes at 5am, putting him to bed later makes no odds either, but to be honest I think I'm quite lucky with his sleeping?

I would bet the problem with you ds is the birds/light waking him up, and when we start getting darker mornings you may get a lie in

Issywoo have been here before with you Mine the same again. But he wakes at 5.30 and is having solids. I just think he wakes for the dummy, then I give it too him and he too hooks it around his finger and pulls it out and we will continue this cat and mouse game with the dummy till about 6.45 when he begins to get hungry for a bottle. I don't know why he does it I wish I knew and it seems that no-one really knows (I know that really is no help for either of us apologies). I am beginning to just let him settle himself. It is not working very well but ignoring him sometimes makes him settle himself. Try that and see. Good luck.

it could be the light in the morning or the birds. my dd was waking at 4.30 all the time until i slept right next to her and heard how noisy they were! have shut her window now, and problem solved.

Could it be too much sleep during the day? or maybe something wakes him up at this time e.g birds, milkman etc and now his natural body clock has got use to this time of waking....sympathy for you as i know what a horrid hour 5am is!

moosh, do you think our bubs were separated at birth!!!! they seem so similar its uncanny.
have blacked out the room completely as light was seeping in around the blinds and have noticed an improvement but he's now decided to wake up at 11pm for a 5oz feed which he wasn't doing b4. he's also wolfing down his solids. he's so enormous i can hardly lift him (he's 20lbs)but i did notice that a full tummy never really made that much difference to his sleeping pattern so maybe it is the light or the birdies. he onlt sleeps for 1 and half hours during the day which also drives me potty. despite his lack of zeds he's the proverbial laughing boy

Issywoo, just tried him in a gro-bag for the last 2 nights and he slept soundly, fidgeted a bit but didn't wake at all.Like most babes he fights with his blankets so I figured no blanket, no fighting, no waking. So far it has worked and I have just introduced breakfast into his daily weaning plan now. So he is having 3 very tiny meals a day so I think that has helped. Don't know whether it will last, but try the gro-bag Isseywoo it might work.

issywoo just wondering what time your ds was born, know it sounds a bit off track but have heard somewhere that if they were born at a certain time they can wake up at around that time (if it is in the morning that is) ds wakes at 6 every morning, very rarely 7...he was born just before 6...don't know if this helps but thought quite interesting to know.

Issywoo and Moosh- I think we have triplets here my ds is also 20weeks and has been doing the 5 am chorus for weeks.....and like you he only has about an hour sleep during the day but is such a a happy chappy....think i will introduce breakfast a she is already in a gro-bag.....

oops it's supposed to read as he.He was born at 02.26am so i should be grateful he's not waking at that time!!