Sleeping

You know - I thought we had turned a corner. There was a period about 2 weeks ago where Aidan was sleeping until 6 AM. I was so excited. He had reached the 3 month mark and I was sure that he was not going to wake up in the middle of the night anymore.

Nope. I was wrong.

Since that week, he has been waking up at 4:06 AM. I am not sure why. But - it is like clockwork. Last night I tried to let him go and hoped he would fall back asleep. He wasn't really crying. It was more like whining and then I would hear the thumb go in his mouth and then more whining and more thumb. This want on from 4:06 until 4:30. Finally I got up and fed him. Which meant I didn't go back to bed until about 5 AM.

Should I let him go and work it out? Some people say as a baby approaches 4 months that they should be able to sleep through the night and every time I feed him - he is getting more and more used to waking up at that time. In other words - I am enabling him. But- then I feel bad because he is obviously hungry. AGH! What to do?

I thought about waking him up last night around 10 PM to feed him. Since he goes to bed at 7 - he really is sleeping through the night. I mean - he sleeps from 7 PM - 4 AM. That is a long time. So - maybe if I wake him up at 10 - then he might sleep longer? The problem is - I feel so bad about waking him up.

What to do? What to do?