7 month old less interested in night feeding but instead wants to party and get up at 5.30

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DS has recently started to show less interest in night feeds and we are down to one of about 10-15 mins. But now when he wakes he instead quite happily jabbers and screeches to himself/his toys for an hour or so and then goes back to sleep - sometimes twice a night (between 11 and 5.30). And now he wants to get up at 5.30!

Is this a transitional thing? A teething/trying to crawl thing? I also wondered if he's napping for too long during the day - 4 hours in total yesterday.

I could cope with the getting up early if I hadn't been awake listening to cute baby babble for half the night!

DD usually wakes up at the crack of dawn when she is teething/has a cold/
doing something new. She's doing it at the moment so I feel your pain.

She napped for 3 hours a day, or sometimes longer at 7 months, so 4 hours doesn't seem overly excessive to me. Can you sleep when he's napping?

I'm not recommending it as a course of action but if DS (8m) wakes before 6 (which he ALWAYS does at the moment), I bring him into bed with us and he goes back to sleep for about another 40mins- hour. It's got an air of 'rod for your own back' about it but it means we all get a bit more sleep, and I quite like it TBH.

He's not an all night partier though - just cries relentlessly if he wakes in the night!

Both of mine have done the babbling in the night when they are teething/learning something new. It's a pain as it disturbs your sleep but if he happily goes back off to sleep by himself it's just a case of trying to go back to sleep in the knowledge that the phase will pass. Easier said than done I know!

The early mornings are probably linked to this too. I think they wake earlier in the morning when they have had a disturbed night as they are not as well rested (if that makes sense?)

You could try cutting daytime sleep back a little and see if that works. At this age mine were having an average of 3 hours sleep a day