Hello. My DS is 7.5 months old and we have restarted with an EASY routine about a month ago after a lot of APOP during a long travel. So far we managed to work out a grood daily routine and get back on track with sleep training. We used shhh/pat and now he falls asleep independently for his naps. He also knows how to resettle himself at the 45min mark without my help. I can hear him blabber sometimes but just for a short while and he's back to sleep. BT is always a bit harder but I hardly ever have to pick him up. Even when I do, he still ends up falling asleep in the cot on his own. He has a lovie and uses a dummy but knows how to put it back in if it falls out so doesn't need me to re-plug him. Here is our schedule:
9:00am wake up and BF 1side
A 3h
10:00 solids (yoghourt or oatmeal)
12:00 nap1 (usually 1,5-2h)
1:30 wake up and BF 1side
A 3h
2:30 lunch (fruit or veg)
4:30 nap2 (usually 1,5h)
6:00 wake up and BF 1side
7:00 dinner (veg with meat or yoghurt)
8:15 BT routine: quiet playtime with dad with soft music, bath, nappy, cuddles with daddy
8:45 BF 1side (sometimes 2sides if he didn't eat much for dinner)
in bed before 9pm
...and that when all hell breaks loose. Before we restarted with EASY he was waking up once, max 2 times per night and was falling back to sleep straight after eating. Now he wakes up every 2-3h or even more often! In the beginning I was trying shhh/pat to resettle but that would only get me another 50min-1h sleep and he'd wake up again. When he wakes up he usually just blabbers in his cot but if I just let him be, he starts crying after 5-10min. When I try to feed him, he latches on but eats for maybe 2-3min and uses me as a dummy. Now I must say I gave up on shhh/pat at night cause I'm so sleep deprived I can't find the energy to do it! Sometimes he falls asleep fast with my breast in his mouth or sometimes I have to hold him in my arms for 20-30min (no rocking) before he doses of and I put him back in his cot. At 5-6am I usually give in and keep him in our bed as I'm dreading EW. I though that those NW were developmental as he was figuring out how to sleep on his side, but now he knows how to do it already and sleeps like that for the past week but the NW continue
I go back to work in 3 weeks and need this to change! What do you think has possessed by boy? I will appreciate any input.