So last night, Ben woke up and wanted food (as in nothing, and I mean NOTHING else would calm him except a bottle) at around 3:30 AM. So I am trying to decode the hows and whys of his being able to sleep through the night or not.
The biggest difference I can see is how he ate on Tuesday vs. yesterday. Tuesday we went to Tabby's tumbling class. So he had a bottle on the way there, a snack of a half-stick of string cheese while we were there and then dinner around 7 PM and a bottle on the way home from dinner (yes, he really eats that much, no problem). Last night, we got home around 5:30 and ate around 6. He ate well enough and then had a bottle while I was getting him and Tabby ready for bed. He went to bed only about 15 minutes earlier, not really enough to explain the 2+ hour difference in his wake times, so I contend: it was the food.
My new working theory is that my son is a hobbit and needs second dinner, or supper, as the hobbits apparently call it, in order to sleep through the night. So tonight, I guess I'll try a bottle right after we get home, dinner as late as I can make the princess wait, and a bottle right before bed and we'll see how that works.
I hope this does the trick! I know I purposefully stuff Luci at dinner time, since she's still up during the night a few times a week. Sometimes it works, and others? Not so much.
Good luck!