2am wake up call

[sly]

Does anyone have any advice for the following problem.
Our daughter is 5 weeks old and has been on the Gina Ford regime for the last week. She seems to have taken to it well and is already sleeping in her crib in her own room. She goes down easily at 7pm every night, is woken around 10.30pm for her feed and goes straight back down again and then sleeps through til 2.30am which is when the problems start.
She wakes up, takes 2 - 3 oz of milk but is then wide awake and doesn't want to go back down. It usually takes me til around 4.30am to settle her and then she wakes up half an hour later at 5am wanting another feed meaning I get no sleep after 2.30am.
I don't expect to drop either the 2.30am or the 5am feed yet as she's so little, but how can I get her to settle easily as after the other evening feeds she's tired and goes down no problem.
Any advice welcomed.

Hi Sly. Sympathies for the problem. I do a bastardised form of Gina, although didn;t discover her until ds was 3 months. When I was doing night feeds I didn't talk to him at all and kept the room dark. Didn't change his bum unless he had pooped. This way he knew it was still night time. Are you doing all this? Do you wake her for 2.30 feed or does she wake up herself? If you are waking her, why not try leaving her for another hour until 3.30 or 4. Then once you do settler her you might get to stay in bed until 8am!

Sly - a bit like Poo2, if you are not already doing so, keep the room dark, don't make any eye-contact, don't change the nappy (unless dirty of course!) and put back down. Do you have her swaddled? If not, perhaps she is getting cold at that time of night?

are you keeping her awake long enough at the 10 feed. doesnt gf say that they need to be awake 1hr at this feed in order to sleep better.

or try getting to her before she wakes at 2.30 and give her expressed milk in a bottle. that way you don't have to lift her out of her cot and she'll just suckle enough milk to keep her going but without her even waking up