Sudden waking up at 430am

my almost 6 months bub started waking up at 430am for two nights straight. He has been sleeping between 730pm - 5am (if he does not wake up for a dream feed) or 730pm - 6am (when he has a dream feed around 1130pm).


He stopped waking up for the dream feed two weeks ago and I did not wake him either.


But last night for example, he was put to bed at 730pm after a feed, woke up at 9pm, crying. So I thought he may be hungry, (as he had his pooh right after his 730pm feed, not the norm, yesterday was an exception). Gave him a feed but he slept shortly without finishing.


He did not wake until 430am! Hungry.


As I am starting him on solids in a week, I am concerned about this sudden night waking. As it has disrupt his daytime feeding schedule.


Any advice would be so much appreciated.

the dream feed is something that you wake the child up for (but of course very quietly, just enough for the baby to feed), not something you wait for your baby to wake up for.


if your baby is unable to sleep through the night beyond the dream feed, you might want to consider re-introducing the dream feed and then slowly cut back on that once baby is well-established on solids and provided its milk intake during the day is still sufficient for a baby of his age.

Could be teething.

My 6.5mth son recently stopped sleeping through the night too. rather than wake up in the middle of the night, he won't go down for bed until 10 or 11pm and sleeps until 630am. previosly he was doing 7pm-6am or 8pm-7am.


I think his teeth are really bothering him and wakes him up. he does the same, drink a little then doesn't want anymore than 50ml/2oz. We started solids already and have just accepted his new later bedtime. he had a few nights where he woke up in the middle of the night, i just feed him some water and put him back down, after a few minutes of fussing he usually falls back to sleep.


Before we started solids he was actually waking up around 4am hungry as well. i took that as a sign that he was ready for solids as the milk wasn't lasting him through the night. after we started solids he stopped waking up at 4am and started this whole going to bed later thing. i guess he thinks he's all grown up now???