hi, i know this topic has been addressed before, but i really need some good input in this area.
i have been doing the EASY method with my 3 month dd for 4 weeks. she is doing great with it, but we have a little glitch in the system.
she is bf and on the average eats on one side for 5 minutes and is done. she is an efficient eater. she will then easily go to the next three hour mark to eat again. she is over 14 lbs, so i know she is getting enough. but, her A and S time is where things get confusing. she is consistently tired 1 hr after she wakes up. sometimes in the morning after a good night she will got 1 hr 15 minutes, but not much more. so this means she goes down one hour after waking, sleeps usually 1.5 hrs, sometimes more, sometimes less. if i try to push her A time, she does not go down well, but if i act on her tired signs right at the hr mark she goes down really well. she always wakes up on the 45 minute mark, usually stirs and goes back to sleep for 45 more minutes, but on the odd times will not go back to sleep even with help. anyway, so then if we are going to wait for the 3 hr E mark, we have to have A time, the E time, then A time then S time. i am fine with this, but as the day goes on the A time before E time gets longer, and the A time after E time gets shorter. by the afternoon the A time before S time is almost non-existent.
i would really rather have the EAS, but i can't seem to tweak it w/ out get her overtired.
i would love to get some advice on this!
~kellie
