Hi my little boy is 28 weeks and we're having terrible trouble with multiple night wakings which has been going on for 2 months but getting progressively worse. He was initially waking 2 hourly on the dot, I was feeding &putting him straight back down, i then started shush pat which would take an hrs or so. He's now waking at random intervals, I try to only feed 3-4 hourly unless very upset but still takes a while to get him off to sleep after feeding. I have to admit of just brought him into bed with me more recently from 4 am as I just need some shut eye.
He eats well most days however breakfast is often less successful.
he's breastfed, has a dummy, swaddled, suffers with a bit of eczema to his face and chest, will scratch if not swaddled and knock his dummy out. 9/10 will self settle for naps. I swaddle, give dummy and put his glowing seahorse on, which plays music for 5 mins, he's usually asleep by the end of this.
I've been trying hard the past few weeks to tackle his easy but still struggling to get it right, I try and stay at home as much as possible to stick to a routine and then he'll throw in a stupid nap leaving me a bit lost.
We had one good night two weeks ago &I've tried to follow that days easy but to no avail
should I be going by sleepy signs at this age or clock watch? some days he's very grumpy &tired by 2 hours other times he's still quite happy 4+ hours. I'm desperate to get this sorted now, my mood is so low.
I've been looking back through our easy for the last week or so&it's rubbish! I think the harder I tried to sort his routine the worse I made it! he's baffling me. I don't really know how you'll help me as our easy is so all over the place.
