7 week old DS is mixed pumped BM/formula fed. I'm trying to let him settle his own daytime start as I did with DD. She vastly preferred a 6-6 day. However I'm kinda at a loss for a few things.
Left to himself, he was sleeping from 7:30p-12:30a when he'd wake hungry. He'd then wake again around 5 to eat and will go back to sleep but then it throws the day off. He'll then have an 8a-8:30p day, which shifts the night feeds to only one at 2am then up at 6:30a when we might as well start our day. So we tried again with the DF at 10:30p (he wouldn't take it at 4 weeks). He'd drink the entire DF bottle then wake around 3a to eat, then up at 7a 3 days in a row. Great, I thought I had solved our issue. Except in only 3 days he began waking on his own at DF time, before we went into his room whereas before he'd sleep another 2 hours! We stopped the DF and he immediately went back to 12:30 wake up.
So yes he'll take the DF and our days work out better, but in only 3 days I trained his little body to want food at 10:30. I don't like to create habits I'll have to break later. Should I not do the DF and just accept that, for now, his days are going to alternate between 6:30a and 8a start times? This'll be hard in a month when I go back to work. Or do I do the DF and break the habit later?
