Hi all,
I'm hoping to get some help, or maybe just moral support!
I used easy for dd who is now 6 and it worked really well. Now I have ds who is 8mths and it's a whole different ball game!
I'm now self employed so I've had no mat leave so me and my husband share the business and the kids with some help from nan and sis in law. Ds is a happy sociable baby so this hasnt been a problem, but implementing a routine has been virtually impossible.
I cant really post a routine but what I can tell you is this:
He wakes at about 6.30am, bed by 6.30 pm
Weaning started at 5mths, he eats well, 3 meals plus snacks and he has a mid morning bottle, one mid aft, one before bed......then go knows how many in the middle of the night.
Hes always been a short napper. I've tried EVERYTHING! He's always hated shhh pat, it winds him up, we have white noise, he sleeps with a lovey and a dummy. He self soothes MOST of the time.....this is the odd bit. We can out him down for naps and for bed and he soothes to sleep, but when he wakes in the night he can take literally hours to try to soothe back to sleep so sometimes I do give him a bit of help with a cuddle or a bottle.
On a good day he'll have 3 x 40 min naps, a time being around 3hrs. On a bad run (it's usually bad) he has disaster naps....10/15 mins and then we're in an over tired loop. Then I find judging the a time really hard.
So here's the problem. I can cope with short naps (I think ive accepted that its just the way he rolls) but on a good night he wakes once for bottle, on a bad night (and we have more bad than good) its every hr. Last night he was in bed by 6.30, he then woke at 8.30, 9.30, 10, 30, 11.30, 12.30, 1, 3, 5 and then 6.30. Obviously, we're all shattered. I dont know what to do about his a time and today he starts a taster session in nursery!
I know that he suffers badly with teething and last time he woke hourly it was just before his bottiem teeth came through. Should I just chill and accept its a blip? We're just all so damn tired though!
Any help would be much appreciated xxx