Hi everyone
I've been trying to talk my wife into posting here, but she never seems to have the time to so I'm taking charge and posting for us

My wife and I are giving the Baby Whisperer a second try after giving up on Shh/Pat and PUPD after a short stint around 3 months. I don't know exactly what happened and how things got off track (I think it was his crying that did us in, so he was just nursed to sleep), but we hit a breaking point last week and decided to re-commit ourselves again. We've been trying so many different things these past 5 months we're all over the place on what we should be trying to do. When we look back at our history of sleep and feeds, he was basically being fed every 2 hours because he didn't nap longer then 30 mins, and he was probably just snacking.
The reason for the recommit is because our 5MO was having multiple NWs and we weren't getting any sleep, but we seem to have curbed that issue (for the most part) in this short timespan (we started again on March 12). He sometimes wakes up around 1am, but we're able to get him back to sleep relatively easy, but still wakes up anywhere from 3-4am for a feed then he's back off to sleep (before it'd take over an hour to get him back to sleep). One of our biggest issues is that the 3 of us share a room together (and will be for a while still due to various circumstances), so getting him back to sleep as quickly as possible has always been our number one goal in the wee hours.
Since restarting EASY, we have jumped head first into the 4 hour EASY. We're on day 5 right now and it's gone like this:
Wakeup - Anywhere between 6 and 7am. If he's still asleep at 7am we wake him up.
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S - 9am (he wakes up between 30-40 mins, spend 20-40 mins trying to get him to sleep for another 30-45 mins)
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S - 1pm (same as the 9am nap, wakes up within 30 mins but its REALLY difficult to get him back to sleep here)
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CN - 430pm (Cat nap usually ends up happening around here and is as usual, 30 mins, if we're able to get him to sleep because he didn't sleep well at his 1pm nap)
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Bath then Bed - Usually asleep by 7pm
DF - Somewhere between 930 and 1030. He has a tendency to wake up before we have a chance to feed him
NF - Sometime between 330 and 430am
A couple of our APs:
- We've been VERY guilty of is that when he would wake up from his 30 mins naps, we'd always just go in and get him. When he wakes up from his nap, he's always appears to be refreshed.
- He was nursed to sleep for the longest time with his naps as well as bed time
Things that we've never been able to get a firm grasp of is how the EASY routine goes if he's unable to get a full nap in? He's been a chronic 30mins napper for as long as we can both remember, which I keep reading is because he's OT. If we're not able to get him to sleep at all after waking up, do we start the EASY again? Even though the feeds won't be 4 hours apart? Do we stick with the schedule? Or base the EASY routine off his Sleep and Awake times?
If he doesn't feed very well, should we try again later during the A time? He's a BF baby.
If he wakes up earlier then 7am (say 6am), do we just let him lie in his crib until 7? Or is it time to get up and get the day started. He doesn't seem to feed as well if he's been up for a bit. He feeds better when he first wakes up.
Any tips would be great!
Thanks!