This is my first post on the website, but I read the Baby Whisperer before my son Samuel was born. He's been on EASY pretty much since we came home from the hospital (He's 5 1/2 weeks). Up until last week, he was sleeping great, falling asleep by himself, and napping for an hour and half to two hours three times a day. I give him the passy to fall asleep but before he always spit it out and went back to sleep. Sometimes I'll hear that he'll realize that he spit out the passy and whine for a minute, but he always put himself back to sleep. I never really needed the shh-pat method because he would fall asleep by himself. But as of the last week he wakes up from almost every nap after 45 minutes. I've been really careful not to overstimulate him during his awake time, but I've found that nothing will calm him down when he wakes up after 45 min. I've tried to shh-pat him back to sleep but that doesn't seem to be working. He's always fussed when he's tired or even when we do our night-time routine, so now it feels like he's screaming most of the time. I suspect that he's a touchy baby. He cries when he eats, and I think he's pretty gassy. I also wonder if I'm feeding him too much, and causing more gas problems. I feel so discouraged and tired all around.
I'll post my our EASY schedule, and I'd love any feedback or advice. Thanks.
Stephanie
This is our EASY schedule when it works:)
8 Wake and Eat
8:20 A
9 Start wind down and sleep
11 E
11:20 A
12 Start wind down and sleep
2 E
2:20 A
3 Start wind down and sleep
4:30 E
5:30- 45 cat nap
6:30 E
7:15 start bedtime rountine
8:00 eat and sleep
10:30 DF
1:30-2:30 wake and eat
5-6 wake and eat
