Hello!
Little guy will be 16 weeks old this week. I'm not sure if I need to change to a longer schedule or not. I'm also confused about his end of day. He doesn't give me sleepy signs at all, but he loves to play and I feel like he does well with a 1.5 hour A time. I'm planning on sticking with this A time for a little longer before changing it, but it seems like he can go longer between feeds. He has never been a good napper, but he is a good night sleeper. Today, we put room darkening blinds in, and he took almost a 2 hour nap!! It was amazing!!
Here is my current schedule (I'm usually within 30 min of it each day):
7:00 wake for day, eat, play
8:30-10:00 nap (doesn't always nap the entire time)
10:00 eat
11:30-1 nap
1:00 eat
2:30-4 nap
4:00 eat
5:30-7 nap
7 eat
8:30 bedtime
9:30 dream feed
I hate our end of day. It feels like I just get him to bed for the night and I turn around and do the dream feed. I don't get to spend any time alone with my husband. He always wakes up for the dream feed too. I'm not sure if I need to bump up my 7:00 feed to 6:30 to make that last nap a cat nap and give me an extra 30 min in the evening, or if I should try to change to a 3.5-4 hour schedule. Should I drop that last nap completely? I just don't know. I don't want to rock the boat too much.
Also, I'm worried when the time comes to change to a 4 hour schedule I would drop a feed. Right now, I only feed him 6 times a day since he has stopped eating MOTN. If I extended his schedule he would only eat 5 times a day. I'm worried that he may start waking MOTN for food if I do this. Its hard for me to tell how much he has eaten. Sometimes he eats for 20 min sometimes 40, but I feel like he gets about the same amount. He does a lot of unproductive suckling I think.
Any advice on how I could adjust my schedule would be much appreciated!
