TIA for your help! We've had our 9 week old on EASY since birth, and he's done great but has a hard time self-soothing through a gassy stretch in the early morning hours (between 4am and 6:30am).
I'd love some suggestions to help us either survive or eliminate this morning "rough patch", and I'm also wondering if we're setting up some bad sleep habits.
Our nighttime routine:
He sleeps for about an 8-hour stretch from roughly 8pm to 4am every night. Beyond that, he starts fussing, which turns into crying with his eyes closed. When we hear crying, we go in, put a hand on his chest and sometimes give the pacifier, and he passes gas and goes back to sleep in seconds. We'll repeat this about every 15 minutes until he's really awake and won't settle (around 6:30am), which is when we feed him and he drifts off for another solid hour or so.
What we've tried:
- He doesn't give any hunger signals, but we tried feeding him at 4am—it used to be one of his night feeds—but he's still restless from 4-6:30.
- If we don't do the little "shush-pat" thing, he snaps wide awake.
His EASY routine:
He's on a 3-hour EASY during the day and naps no longer than 2 hrs. at a time. We put him to sleep awake for naps, and pretty drowsy/mostly asleep for bedtime. He's getting around 24-27 ounces of formula a day.
I haven't tracked the exact activity/sleep times, but I think his EASY routine typically looks something like this:
Wake / E: 7:30-8am
A: 8:30-10:30am
S: 10:30-11am (Usually just a catnap)
E: 11am
A: 11:30-12:30pm
S: 12:30-2pm (Longer nap)
E: 2pm
A: 2:30pm-3pm
S: 3pm-5pm (Longer nap)
E: 5pm (He gets very reflux-y at this feed and struggles to eat more than a couple of ounces)
A: 5:30pm-7:30pm
S: 7:30pm-8pm (Another catnap)
E/A/E: 8pm (We give him half his bottle before his bath, and half after, on nights that he has a bath)
S: 8:30pm-4am (This is when he starts fussing)
E: 6:30am
Any ideas?
