Hi
I hope someone can help. I'm new to this site and to the EASY routine, which I am trying to follow. Currently my DD is on a 3 hourly feed routine. She is 13 weeks and was 5 weeks premature...
I am having a nitemare with naps, which range from 30 mins to an hour and she'll only have a 2 hour nap if I hold her.
I am mixed feeding, as cannot cope with breastfeeding and sorting out her naps etc, its driving me insane...If she doesnt sleep well during the day, she will then go onto to have a night terror and they break my heart...I'm at the end of my thether! I have tried sshh/pat and w2s trying to extend naps, but to no affect, unless I hold her...I spend most of my day by her moses basket sshhing and patting, then bring her downstairs for a little activity and then up we go again as soon as she is tired. I'm getting better at reading her tired cues, even before the 1st yawn we are upstairs, I'll change her nappy, sing her a few nursery rhymes whilst she is on my lap and as soon as she gets drowsy which is within 5-10 mins, I put her in her moses basket, sometimes half awake, sometimes asleep...And as she doesnt sleep long enough unitl her next feed, more often than not her feed times then coincide with her sleep times, so the EASY messes up..and I hate feeding her and then putting her to sleep...
Here is a typical day:
7am - Feed (BF)
8.30 - S
9.30 - awake
10 - Feed (Bottle 3/4 oz)
11 - S
11.45 - Awake
12.15 - try to put asleep - not always successful
1 - Feed (Bottle 3/4oz) and then falls asleep...!
2 - Awake
3 - try to put asleep again - sometimes works in the afternoon for around 45/60 mins
4 - Feed (Bottle 3/4oz)
5.30 - catnap
6.15 start bath/massage routine
6.30 - BF (sometimes bottle)
7 - Asleep
11pm/12pm - DF
3am/4am - BF
Following the bedtime routine, she drifts off to sleep very quickly, prob because she hasnt slept much during the day and on sometimes gets up between 3am and 6am...
She has a dummy or otherwise I'd be the dummy! Once I can fix the nap probs, I'm going to wean her off the dummy..
Any suggestions, I dont know what else to do
Thanx
Ash