GRRRR

I've talked many times about what a great sleeper Thomas is, but lately we've been getting some resistance. Not too bad, but now when I try to rock him to sleep at night, do prayers, and bottles, he stiffens up, turns his head away from me, extends his arms, and attempts to sit up. He refuses to look at me or acknowledge me during this battle with him. He is, I am afraid, my child. Anyway, that's not so bad. We've handled that pretty well, and have let him know we aren't tolerating it, that just because he refuses to look at me doesn't mean he isn't going to bed. So we're winning that.

Here's the deal: for about the past month and a half, he consistently wakes up at 4:30am for a bottle. Every now and then he'll sleep through to six, but the 4:30 wakeup is getting a little old. We are inclined to try to get him weaned off that night feeding, but there's a part of me that thinks he's actually hungry because most nights he will suck down a full six ounces and go right back to sleep until about 6:45. But then there's another part of me that thinks we're getting duped by our six month old. That he wakes up from a sleep cycle, and has just become so accustomed to getting up and hanging out with us for thirty minutes while he eats, that it's just what he does. A book I was reading calls it a 'trained night feeder.'

I need thoughts. Is it time to make him cry it out? Thinking of doing the slow route, and eliminating an ounce from his 4:30am bottle every night till we just offer water, and see if that does the trick. If it were to work like I have it my head, that would have it done in a week.

What does it sound like to you?