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I don't think you're confusing him - you're just trying to train him not to wait up that first time, which is totally fine at this age I think! Just curious, did you end up feeding him at 2:00? Or did he fall back asleep and you didn't feed him until 4:30?

This is exactly what I did with DS (now 3) and more recently with DD (6mo). Both times our pediatrician confirmed that as long as they ate well throughout the day, the earlier wakings were more habit than hunger. (Both kids were sleep trained for going to sleep first, for reference.)

Generally if we need to do checks before the cutoff time (rarely happens though), I send in my husband. The other thing is that once I made significant progress in pushing the feeding time, I don't go backward. We set the 2am cutoff for DD a few weeks ago, but she's been consistently making it until 4am or later, so the new cutoff time is 3am. With DS, this meant he eventually made it until 5/5:30/6. It did mean early wakeups for a while, but in my view, better that than MOTN!

@winniebee: same here! it took DS about a week after setting a cutoff time to get down to one MOTN feeding. DD took a little bit longer but it then it turned out that she was cutting her first two teeth - once they were through she went right down to 1x a night.

@winniebee: Nope this is exactly what I did with DD. I set a certain time in my head (for me it was after 4 am) and if she woke before that, I'd let her CIO. It took a couple days and then she stopped waking up between 1 and 2. At almost a year she still sometimes wakes between 4 and 5 to eat so we'll be working on that one soon...