I need someone to look at my routine please!

[eop]

My 11 week old is all over the place and it's all my fault because I don't know what I'm doing....please look over our nighttime routine and tell me what we're doing wrong...

5:30 Feed
6:30 Bath
7:00 Catnap (wake him up after 45 minutes to an hour)

8:00 Feed (then burp and change him)
8:30 Bedtime

Is this the right order? it just doesn't seem to be working and seems very awkward.  It seems crazy to wake him up from a nap (catnap) to just feed him and then put him right back down. Did I misinterpret the EASY method? Should I be bathing him after the 8:00 feed instead? Please help! I don't know if I can keep this craziness up....I'm really tempted to abandon it all together. He's still only sleeping 2-3 hours at a time at night and I just can't get any sleep as a result!

[Layla]

I wouldn't wake him up to be honest & let him sleeep until he wakes up on his own or do a DF around 10pm. What time does he wake in the morning? How many feeds during the day? Maybe you could do a final feed & bedtime at 7pm rather than wake him up 45mins later???

Can you give me an idea of what his whole day looks like (feeds included)

Layla

[eop]

Let's take today as an example (no two days seem to be alike)...

7:45 - Awake
8:00 - Eat
Activity
9:30 - sleep (45 minute nap)
Activity

11:00 - Eat
Activity
12:20 - sleep (45 minute nap)
Activity

2:20 - Eat
Activity (minimal because he was so tired from not sleeping earlier)
2:45 - Sleep (slept 2+hours)

5:30 - Eat
Activity
7:20 - sleep (woke him up after 45 minutes)

8:30 - Eat
8:50 - Sleep for the night (put him straight down after a burp and change)

this is not working though so I know i'm doing something wrong...please advise!

[Layla]

Its common for them to take 45min naps at that age... what is he like when he wakes? Does he seem to need more sleep? What I used to do at that age is try & stick to the feeding schedule & fit naps in when she seemed tired. We used to have 4-45min naps at that age & they only stabalised around 5-6 months.

So what I would do...in regards to bedtime is put him down for the night at 7.30pm & let him sleep until either he wakes naturally.. which might be anytime from 4hrs onwards or try dreamfeed around 11pm. At 3 months we had 2 nightfeeds... one around midnight & the other towards the early morning (5am) & then back to bed until 8am. She would go down for the night at 8pm.

I also asked an EASY mod to have a look to help you out more

Layla

[*Natasha*]

So my DD2 is 11.5weeks and we are currently doing:

4.30/5am Feed
8am - Feed
9am - Sleep
11.30am - Feed
12.30am - Sleep (DD1 goes down at the same time)
3pm - Feed
4.30pm - Sleep 1hr
6.30pm - Bath,Feed
7pm - Bed till morning

HTH

Trying to extend 4.30/5am to 6.30am.