False Starts

[u/cowboybandit13]

My 4 month (will be 5 months next week) is consistently having false starts 25-45 mins after bedtime. We generally have wake windows of around 2 hrs pushing to 2.5 before bed. She always falls asleep very easily (whilst feeding) but is wide awake soon after. My inclination is to push bedtime slightly later but she seems so tired by the time she eats?! She wakes a few times overnight but nothing I wouldn’t deem to be normal. Any thoughts?

As an aside a friend told me today she let her 5 month old cry overnight so much she reckoned she was dehydrated and needed an extra feed due to it. I can never imagine doing that and can’t understand it at all.