We are currently on a 3 hour EASY routine with our 10 week old. She is a great sleeper for her age, but gets OT and OS very easily so she often ends up fussy in the evenings. The last few days she has been going to sleep late partly due to her fussiness and difficulty getting her down, but then she sleeps in late and we are now on a 9am-9pm EASY. My question is: how can we shift her day without losing a feed? I think that if we moved her bedtime up even to 7:30 or 8pm she wouldn't be so fussy.
Here's an example of our day:
WU/E 9:00 am
A 9-10:10 am
S 10:10-12:00 pm
E 12:00 pm
A 12:00 - 1:10 pm
S 1:10 - 2:30pm
E 2:30 pm
A 2:30 - 3:45 pm
S 3:45 - 5pm
The evenings are all different depending on how tired she is, but she usually takes a couple of catnaps
E 5:00 pm start cluster feed
A 5:00 - 6:30 pm
S 6:30 - 7:00 pm
E 7:00 pm
From 7-9pm she sometimes drifts in an out of a nap, which is AP due to her fussiness...I would like to make this her bedtime since she's so tired by then.
Start bedtime routine at 8:30pm
E 8:45-9pm
S We struggle getting her to sleep and she'll usually pass out for the night at around 9:30 - 10pm
She then wakes up at around 5-6am for a feed and she's so tired that I'll put her back down until 9am when she wakes up.
To get the day shifted earlier should I just wake her up at 7-8am and start EASY from there (I hate waking her up because she's so grouchy when I do), or just put her to bed after the 7pm feed (but then we lose that 7th feed of the day if that makes sense). She is EBF so I think only waking up once for a feed in the middle of the night is fantastic for her age so I don't want to mess too much with the feeds. Cluster feeding her in the evenings works for her and she can sleep for long stretches. She is medicated for reflux and it is controlled now so I want to start tweaking her EASY timing.