I stopped the night feeds 'cause I really didn't think he needed them. It seemed more like I was using feeding as a way to settle him? He has four 240ml bottles a day, plus three full feeds of solids plus 2 snacks so I really don't believe that he could be hungry!? Seems like a lot of food for a little tummy anyway.
When he wakes we try to resettle him without picking him up. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. Usually he'll resettle quite easily up until about 3am-ish. Then it's almost every half hour and he can be just about impossible to resettle. He doesn't scream though (he used to but that was when I was feeding him at night). He just kind of cries, then when we go in he stops. It's just like he's not even tired?! like he could get up and play if we let him. He just has so much energy.
My husband thinks that sometimes he's actually standing up in his sleep and then he wakes himself up and starts crying and doesn't know to lie back down again.
Come to think of it, I guess that's been one of our biggest problems. His standing up in his cot. He's been standing up since the day of his 6 month birthday. I've read lots of stuff about sleep training, but none of it has mentioned what to do about them standing up. Anyone got any ideas? If he would just stay horizontal I think that half of his wake-ups would be eliminated. That's the problem with a lot of the sleep training methods. Most of them say not to pick them up or touch them etc so that they can learn to re-settle themselves. But if we don't lay him down then he just won't go back to sleep...
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