Hello All,
I have a 7 week old boy, I started him on the 3 hour EASY at 5 weeks and all was going pretty well, I wasn't too strict on it as he was still pretty young but I wanted to get some form of routine going. Lift before this had been awful, every evening Jack would spent screaming and we'd end up driving around in tears trying to get him off to sleep. He does suffer with silent reflux which he's got medication for now. I also gave up breastfeeding because of this and put him on Cow&Gate comfort milk, which made a huge difference.
I switched bath time around so that he was having a bath around 6-6.30, into PJ's, bottle, story and in bed for 7pm, I'd then dreamfeed around 10pm and he'd go through until 2.30 sometimes 4am.
This was good for almost 2 weeks, then I think with his weight gain the medication wasn't being as effective, but has now been given a higher dose. Also he went through a growth spurt draining all his bottles, so we upped them to more milk every 4 hours and tried to do the 4 hour EASY, I think this is where everything has gone wrong, he would refuse to sleep in the day lasting only 20 mins before waking, then becoming overtired and the screaming in the evenings has returned.
So today I have gone back to 3 hour EASY, he spent most of the morning awake and has now been sleeping since 1.10pm its now 5pm, he woke at 4.30 an hour late for his feed, but after the lack of sleep for the last week, I thought I'd let him get some much needed sleep, after the feed I've changed him and he's just gone straight back to sleep, he did do this before, I almost used to have to dreamfeed him for his 4pm, he'd then wake around 5.45 for his A time and bath, he'd have his bottle and go off at 7pm no problems.
I struggle with A time as he never really wants to do much, with him being so young still he's not interested in the toys he's go and happily looks around at things in the room.
The other issue we have is he has never like his moses basket, he just will not sleep in it, I think this is to do with the reflux, we've tried propping it up etc, but he just hates it, you can wait until he's fast asleep, put him in and he wakes screaming within 5 mins, so he sleeps in his pram tilted up so he's not flat, but I really want to get him back in the moses though, so any suggestions would be really appreciated