4.30am EVERY morning - why????

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My 12.5mo DS wakes up with wind every morning at 4.30am - you can literally set your watch by it. He was a very colicky baby, and though better, this still really disturbs him. We co-sleep and he generally sleeps okay, perhaps waking once or twice but going straight back to sleep. I feed him at 4.30 to help get him through it - which usually works.
I'm not especially stressed by this but want to know why such a weird time? Does this happen to anyone else?

My now 22 mo ds used to do this at 5.30am which is a bit more manageble than 4.30am! We don't co-sleep and it wasn't necessarily wind all the time but we found giving him supper (cereal/porridge or banana) right before bedtime seemed to help and push him through another couple of hours and stop any wind too. Hope this helps!

My 14 month old was waking up every morning at around 4am but one day it was 3.59

He would have some milk, and go back in the cot for about an hour or half an hour and be up again wide awake from around 5am.

I was getting desperate and called up Nightnannies.co.uk and spoke to a fab lady who basically said cut out the 4am feed, which I stupidly knew I had to do but I just kept getting up and feeding him like a zombie. Anyway, we stopped the 4am feed, replaced it with water for 2 days then cut it out altogether and now he sleeps til around 5.30am and I don't get up til 6am. He screams for a bit and nods off a bit til then.

I know I should also push back his bedtime from 6.45pm to get him to wake up later but I guess I'm kind of used to the 5.30am starts and I like having a couple of hours in the evening although I'm usually in bed by 9.30.

My only hope is that once he's a bit bigger and I can drop the daytime nap he will sleep a bit longer in the morning.

I've read countless threads on this topic and have come to the conclusion there's little you can do about an early wake up, you just have to try and ride it out until they grow out of it......if you're lucky.........I have heard about 5 year olds getting up at 5am

DD1 is 7 and thinks nothing of embarking on arts and crafts projects at 5.15 in the morning. Always was, and by this stage, we fear, always will be, a morning person. You learn to sleepwalk quite early on.

Thanks for your replies - taken me ages to find time to sit down and see what you've all said.
It seems my LO is unique - he doesn't WANT to be awake at 4.30am, toys or crayons are the last thing on his mind, it's wind that's troubling him.
I'll start a thread in breast and bottle feeding topic and see if anyone there has similar experiences.