HELP!! What to tackle first?

[dancingbear]

Hi, I'm new here so bear with me. My dd Millie is 17 weeks old today and I am only just trying to start her on any easy routine.

She has been vaguely following one anyway so it's not too different. After introducing a nightime routine i have been putting her down to bed at 7/7.30pm since she was 7 weeks old. She gradually started dropping her night feeds until 10 weeks when she started going through the night till 7am ish which was bliss! This carried on until 2 weeks ago when she started waking up in the night. She was waking anywhere between 3-5am and i would give her a dummy/paci (i'm british, we say dummy here !! but will call it paci so people know what i'm on about), i figured she wasn't hungry as she would take it and fall straight back to sleep.

Anyway, this has been getting worse and worse so that for the last week she has been lasting a couple of hours from bedtime then waking EVERY hour until 5 am then EVERY half hour til 7am when i finally give in and get up to start the day. I am sooooooo tired! Every time she wakes i give her the paci and off she goes to sleep only to wake again an hour later.

She also will not go down for naps without it, only naps for 40 mins without fail and can barely last 3 hours between feeds. Woo hooo!!

So from reading the Baby whisperer books and some posts on her i understand that she has a bad prop problem, needs to take longer naps and needs to feed more like every 4 hrs.

My question is, what do i try and tackle first???

Have posted on EASY and props too as i don't know which to try and deal with first!

Thanks if you've read this far and any advice most appreciated before i keel over from lack of sleep!!

Emma & Millie
xxx

[Jazmyn]

If it was me I would get the EASY routine established first THEN tackle the props.  But thats just my opinion others may think differently.  My lo does the 5am wake up thing too, and its exhausting.  Then he does the 40 minutes naps also.  I seem to spend my life trying to get a baby to sleep!! 

[deemum]

Since u say that your lo goes for a few hours when she first goes down, have u tried the cluster feed and dream feed? they worked great for me as my dd went down well for a few hours early in the night and the dream feed broke this up for us so he 'night' came later.