Recently night weaned baby keeps waking at 4am!

[Lizbiz89]

I've recently night weaned my 1 year old. Everything was going great and we had a couple of nights where he slept until 6.30-7am. However the last few nights he’s been waking a 4am and won’t go back to sleep. Doesn’t matter if I leave him to cry or try and settle him. Has anyone else been through anything similar? If so did it resolve on its own or did you do anything to stop it from happening?

We had kind of similar. By a yearish my daughter would wake for a bottle and then be back in bed asleep within 20m. Foolishly (in hindsight) we decided to night wean by watering it down gradually at about 15m. Well we succeeded in her not wanting milk at night but she'd still wake and without the milk she'd take 2 hours to settle. And no, she wouldn't accept a bottle either so we were stuffed for a few months. Major own goal.

I'm not sure how we moved on from it as she continued to be a rubbish sleeper (and still often is at 7).

@Lizbiz89 How are things going? I’m going through something similar

@CM327509 really well! Mostly sleeps through the night now. I do an awake feed at 10-10.30pm (for my boobs!) and then he sleeps through until 7am. Best thing I ever did. I felt like giving up around night 4, then it massively improved from then on.

@Lizbiz89 Did you purposely do anything to stop the early day wakes?? Our little one wakes 5am and only will settle in our bed. We’re getting no sleep though as he is in active sleeper when in our bed

@CM327509 just had to be really strict. When he woke I would go in, stroke his head and say it's night time now, back to sleep. If he cried I would keep going in and do the same. Just had to be persistent. Now he sleeps through. I know it's hard but I really couldn't continue with the lack of sleep anymore. I was drained. Now I feel so much better and so does ds. He actually wakes refreshed instead of grumpy and tired.