my dd is 6-weeks-old. we are working on a 3-hour EASY during the day. her wake up time varies, but she nurses (15-20 minutes usually on one side) and then bottle feeds (1-2 ounces). she usually shows signs of being tired after 45 minutes to an hour, so I can often just take her up to the nursery and she will fall asleep when I sit down in the rocking chair almost immediately. otherwise, I rock, pat, and shush to put her to sleep - stopping the rocking and continuing the patting/shushing quietly. then she usually naps for 1 1/2 hours - 2 hours.
we don't really have a bedtime, but I guess it might be between 8-10 at night, depending. she usually gets one catnap before then that she wakes up from on her own after 45 minutes. I sometimes give her a bath before that 45er. it seems like her first long sleep from 9-11 for example is pretty good, she doesn't wake up from it for a couple of hours. but after that, her sleeping changes. when she wakes, I feed her in her rocking chair - usually she only nurses about 10 minutes, then I change her diaper and she will take a bottle of almost 2 ounces. she seems to fall asleep fine when eating, sometimes I can't get a burp out of her (this is why I wonder if she wakes up at times because she has a burp). I have her on my shoulder patting her for usually 15 minutes afterwords. she often goes to sleep just fine.
but then 10-60 minutes later, she will wake up and not want to go back to sleep. I actually usually pick her up and go back to the rocking chair for the pat/shush and a little rocking. during the day, I can put her down when she is drifting off and she falls asleep - I'm not so sure about night. she is usually out when I put her down. I'm sure my mistake lies in how I try to get her back to sleep, but we've been fighting spit-up int he crib after she goes to sleep, which often woke her up.
any thoughts?
