Hi!im really impressed with such deep and detailed respond! Thanks a lot! Yep We have a lot in common
I'm from moscow, spent s lot of time in Israel and we even got married there and my husband grew up in Frankfurt, so we come visit his parents a lot. Actually we've been here for the last two months and planning to leave soon back to moscow.
I have Tracy's book and I even started to implement easy pretty early once but Michael was always sleeping after feeds impossible to wake upso I stuck to the 3- and then 4-hour cycle but in the wrong order. Just now he started being awake after feed so I decided it is time to be proactive
So main problem for me now is his NW. He used to sleep 3-4,5 hours withh 2-3 feeds till he was 3 months old, then he slept for 6 hours couple nights and then this hell started.. So I don't think it is discomfort (colics or teething or smith else) related. Also re the solids - we just started 1,5 weeks ago during the day and our pediatrician advised to move this feed to the bedtime as he thought it will get more calories before night. As we just started it shouldn't be the cause. and he is mostly FF I BF just for him to get at least something for the health reasons and for us to feel the connection, but no matter how I tried I have very little milk so we can consider him FF with some little bonus of BF
Day feeds are okay. He keeps 4 hour intervals pretty well generally only sometimes 3 or 3,5 usually after BF or if he didn't take full feed before for some reason.
Here in Frankfurt we have house with garden so during the day he sleeps only outside and he sleeps much more than back home - fresh air I think etc so here is what we had today
Last eve: bedtime at 2000, 22 woke up and ate 4 oz
01 am E 5oz
Then woke up every hour I gave paci
0330 E 5 oz
04 woke up I gave paci and moved him to my bed as I was dying already
05, 06 E breast feed
0730 woke up
0730-09 A
09 E 5 oz
O930-11 S
1100-1300 A
1300 E BF+ 4 oz
1330-1430 S
1430-1630 A
1630 E BF+5 oz
1700-1750 S
1800 E 3 oz (tried to give him extra food during the day in he seemed hungry)
1800-2000 A - including bath, getting dressed etc
2000-2030 - E buckwheat 4 oz, BF, 4 oz of formula
And then he was asleep at 2110
What I aim for first is to get rid of this crazy NW - and I have no idea why he has been waking up like this since he was 3 months old with few nights only waking up at 01 and 05 to eat. And as he slept 5-6 hours stretches before he seems to be capable of it... What do I do with it?
Tomorrow I want to try to feed him when he wakes up in the morning to change the order of things... And will try to put him to sleep earlier. As for the props and the means I use to put him to sleep or nap - as feeding or rocking in the stroller or holding and 5 min rocking before night sleep - it may be the 2nd step probably after fixing the routine and NW, right?
Thank u again for ur advice and efforts!