I wasn't really sure which board to put this on since DS has so may sleep issues. Night wakings, early wake, crappy naps. He had been STTN off and on for awhile, or if he did wake at night, was really easy to settle. That was when he was around 4 months old. He has had illnesses off and on since then and has cut two teeth, so things have been inconsistently bad for the last three months.
Our EASY is all over the place in regards to naps. His feeding times are pretty consistent. He eats a small bit of solids twice a day, but doesn't seem to be all that into them, yet. I have really been working with him this week to get him to go down independently at night. It still takes me walking him around the room to get him drowsy, then shushing him in his crib with my hand on him until he is quiet and falls asleep. We had been doing a DF around 11 pm, but with the illnesses, we hated to wake him when he was sleeping (no matter how gentle we are with DF, he always stirs and can be hard to resettle) so we just started letting him wake on his own for that feed, but I don't really know if that is the right thing to do. If we don't do the DF, he wakes on his own between 10:30-11:30 and we feed him. Then he usually sleeps until somewhere between 4-5 am, but he is terribly hard to resettle at that time. He is not ready to be up for the day at that time because he is whiney, yawning, and clearly still tired.
I am beginning to feel like I will never get a full night of sleep again. I am so tired of going to bed at 8:30 and only getting 5 hours of sleep a night!
We still swaddle his arms, and we have him in a sleep positioner that just velcros around his waist to keep him from rolling onto his tummy since he was doing that and getting really agitated even though he has been proficient rolling both ways for quite some time now. I have listed our EASY below, but his naps are all over the place since he goes to day care during the day. He generally only takes 30-40 minute naps so we are still doing 3 naps a day.
E: 6 am
A: 7:30 am solids
S:8:30/9:00 usually only for a half hour...will sometimes take a longer nap at home
E: 10 am
A: 11:30 am solids
S: somewhere between 12/1 usually for a half hour
E: 2 pm
A
S: usually between 4/5 can be for a half hour or an hour or more
E: 6 pm
A: bath, lotion jammies
S: asleep for night between 6:30/7 pm
DF: between 10:30/11:30 pm
I have no idea where to even begin. Should we try to cut out the DF? Should we wake him for the DF or let him wake on his own? Should we get rid of the swaddle and the sleep positioner and just put him in a sleep sack? Should I let him sleep so long at that 3rd nap of the day when he has had only an hour total of sleep during the day before that 3rd nap?