My little textbook-boy, 4 months and 1 week old, is a very happy and content baby who has been on EASY since arrival, just like his older sister was. He feeds properly, mostly BF but also "formula" (don't know the correct term in english) and is gaining weight perfectly. His naps works great and he is easy to settle, mostly in his pram. During both day and night he has his paci but generally spits it out shortly after he has fallen to sleep. When put to bed for the night, he falls asleep on his own within 5-10 min. The problem is that he ALWAYS wakes up around 4 a.m. crying and is hard to settle after that. After a while, paci in, sh/pat etc. he falls asleep to wake up again after 5-20 min. This goes on until 6.30 a.m. when he has his morning feed. This has been going on for almost 2 months and I have tried everything. I used to feed him around 4 a.m. before but the pattern was still the same, hard to settle after that and woke up every 5-20 min. After a while I realised he was not hungry so I stopped that feeding and now feeds at 6.30 and then he is not to hungry but happily eats for a while. Now I'm desperate and so tired!!!! I might add that he has had a couple of colds during this period which has caused him trouble to breathe through his nose which of course has caused him to wake up as well.
If you could give me some hope and ideas on what to do, I would be so grateful! His EASY looks like this (since a week back we are now on 3,5-4 hrs which works fine although he is very tired at night and before his first nap of the day).
6.30 Eat
8.45-10.15 Sleep
10.30 Eat
12.00-14.00 Sleep
14.00 Eat
16.00-16.45 Sleep
17.00 Eat
18.30 Eat
19.00 Sleep
23.00 DF
Thank you so much for giving advice over this forum! Along with Tracys book, this is such a good source for experience and advice.
