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My little guy is having trouble sleeping in several ways overnight. He was born 9 weeks early, so though he's 11 months old, really his development is that of a 9 month old.

Before daylight savings time, he was sleeping 6pm to 6/6:30am and waking up once or twice a night to nurse. Since daylight savings time, we have moved his schedule ahead a total of two hours (naps and feedings and everything) to 7pm with a goal of a 7am wake. But things have not worked out that way.

He is still waking twice a night to nurse, usually around 1am and 4-5am. Once in a great while he'll sleep till 7am or 7:15am, but usually he's waking up around 6am and can't get himself back to sleep. This is hard b/c we moved his naptimes and everything and so his first nap isn't till 10:00. That's a long stretch for him if he wakes up that early. We've tried letting him CIO for a week – no later than 6:45, but no success.

Frustrated, this weekend I took him to my bed when he woke up and let him nurse off one breast while we were both laying down, and he fell back asleep till after 7:00. I've done this the last three days and it has always resulted him him going back to sleep and sleeping till after 7:00.

But I don't want this to become a habit that he can't sleep without! Plus, he's recently decided that he's done with the paci as a soother, so that doesn't help, either. If I go in his room to try and soothe him, he just gets more agitated. Any ideas?

Also, why is he still waking twice to nurse? If I wanted to wean him off one, which should I try to wean? The 1am or the 4-5am? And how do I do that?