Witching hour

Jennifer • 💗👶🏻October 9, 2019💗 || 💙👶🏻July 27, 2021💙

Does anyone else’s little one have a routine witching hour every night? Our baby girl wakes up every single night at some point between 5 and 6am. It doesn’t matter when her last feeding was, she will wake up during that exact timeframe. Last night we put her back down at 3am and she was up at 5am on the dot. Then two nights ago she went back down at 2:30 and woke up at 5:45. She is VERY vocal during that hour. More so than any other time of day or night. As soon as she wakes up, my husband and I just say “oh it’s the witching hour” and that makes us chuckle a bit. It’s fine for now while I’m on maternity leave because she goes to sleep after we feed her, but when I go back to work she will need to be up at 6:45, so 5am wake ups aren’t going to fly. She has no trouble going to sleep at night, whether it’s bedtime or going back down after her middle of the night feeding. I’ve seen a lot of sleep advice geared towards getting them to fall asleep on their own, which she does already. She also eats 3-4 ounces during her middle of the night feeding. We give her the pacifier at first and that usually gives us an extra 15-20 minutes but then she is up again. Is she just a hungry girl during that window and maybe she will grow out of it? Has anyone experienced this and was able to get rid of or change the witching hour?