Hi all, just wondering whether anyone can help with this. Our 4-month-old recently stopped needing any night feeds, but since then he has started waking very early (5.15 this morning..) and keeping us awake from then on, either playing or just restless, but he doesn't cry and doesn't seem hungry (I've been feeding him at his old wake-up time of 7 and even then he doesn't seem particularly starving). My DH keeps insisting we need to keep him up later in the evenings so he sleeps later, but I'm not convinced - he is already going to bed at nearly 8pm, so keeping him up later would be very tough (he does get very tired then) and I doubt it will help; plus lots of people have told ME that if anything he should go to bed earlier to help him sleep, but DH won't believe this! He won't let me try anything else (earlier bedtimes, trying to darken the room more, moving him to his own room in case we are disturbing him) until we have done at least 3 days of late bedtimes, but I think this will be a nightmare and will mess up his routine too.
Has anyone managed to "fix" or at least improve early wakeups with your own LOs around this age, and if so, what worked for you please? At the moment I am half wishing we'd never dropped the night feed, as I was getting more sleep then - he would go back down afterwards most times and then sleep till 7!