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Well, my LO is starving when she wakes up, but she does sleep 12 hours. Does your LO go back to sleep at 430 or up for the day?

I don't have a toddler, my daughter is only 10.5 months old. So feel free to ignore this I was reading a sleep consultant blog yesterday and it was talking about feeding too close too bed time. She talks a lot about if you have a child who is over 8 months old, how they shouldn't need to eat during the night. That a lot of people find that the child is waking up between 4-6. She says if you find that's happening to you, to push the last feeding earlier in the night. ( I know, it doesn't make sense, you want your child to sleep longer so feed them earlier?) She says this is the same for toddlers which is why I thought I'd mention it. The website is weebeedreaming.com, if you go to her blog then find the article 5 reasons why my child isn't sleeping through the night then read point 3 it kind of talks about it. I know it's mentioned a few times so you could look around at the other articles she wrote. I'm on my phone so it's hard to link it. Anyways, thought I'd mention it, I tried some of her advice and my daughter slept for 12 hours last night

Good luck even if that doesn't work for you

@MrsB2012: gahh! I just read that post & I'm doing nearly everything wrong! lol my 9 month wakes up often. She does put herself to sleep from wide awake but we usually feed solids at 6pm, bath at 7, nurse & then bed so I'm betting that she is too full. May I ask what you used to do versus what you did last night to help her sleep better? I don't know how to rearrange her eating schedule so she isn't so full

No experience but my thoughts (and from what I've read generally about feeling babies (not toddlers)) is that more frequent feeding/snacking leads to more snacking/waking behavior. I don't think the last meal of the day is necessarily the cause/solution to her being hungry early in the morning. She may just be growing a lot and need the extra nutrition but my thought would be to focus on her food/milk intake over the entire course of the day. Make sure she's getting a varied and full meal at least 3 times a day and 1-2 snacks a day that aren't empty calories (fruit, veggies and whole grains). I think if she's getting all of her nutrition throughout the day she's less likely to wake up hungry. But every kid is different and she may just be growing a lot and need that early meal.