Hello ladies,
DS2 is 1 month today
I know lovelylily has a thread going, but I didn't want to hijack, so I thought I'd start my own. I have been concentrating on trying to get A after E times (even if it's brief) and watching his awake time. During the morning, it seems that he has a shorter A and tends to fall asleep pretty soon after eating and a diaper change. This usually happens during the early afternoon as well. Sometimes he falls asleep because we are in the car during a preschool run, but a lot of the time, I'll put him in his car seat or bouncy seat (vibration off) and he'll just go off. Or other times he'll nap in the sling. As the day goes on, it seems like it is harder for him to go off and therefore A time is longer. I know at this age A should only be about 1 hour or so? Then at night (ie evening hours, not MOTN) it can be hard to get him down, even with AP (rocking etc). I give him a paci as well. It's not so much that he is fussy, it's just that he won't go down. Last night, for example, he ate at 7, had a bath, and our short bedtime routine, and then I tried to rock him to sleep and he didn't end up going down until 9:30! My guess is that he is logging so much sleep earlier in the day that he's just not tired, but wanted to ask, will it all even itself out or should I be doing something different?
He is waking every 2.5-3 hrs at night to eat, and I feed him. However, if it's earlier than that and I suspect gas, I try to help him with that and then he ends up going back off after being burped and held. I haven't really been cluster feeding and a dream feed as I felt that I should just feed him when he wants at this age, but what should I be starting that now? I'm really not expecting him to sleep longer stretches at night yet because he is so little, but I wasn't sure if I should be getting him into that routine now.
So my biggest questions are about using AP to get him to sleep at this stage, cluster feeding/dream feed, and what I should do about A times in the evening, if anything. I started EASY with my DS1 at 4 months so I don't have any BTDT with respect to EASY and a newborn. DS1 is an independent sleeper, so I guess all of the AP I did with him in the beginning didn't matter so I suppose I'm answering my own questions LOL.
Thanks! I promised myself I wouldn't stress about sleep this time around and I'm not really stressed yet, but can feel some anxiety creeping in here and there, so any support/encouragement would be greatly appreciated! xxxx