Hi there,
Thank you very much for your reply. Please see my replies to your questions below and some additional comments:
[OK, as far as your routine, I would not let him go more than 2 hour in the morning and 1.5 hour in the afternoon. I would move his A time up to 3 hours also, you may want to do that in 15 minute increments over 3-5 days to avoid OT though.Give this time to settle in, there is always some OT involved when you are teaching LOs new ways to go to sleep.]
He already has the 3hours A time between the morning and afternoon naps and between the afternoon nap and bed time. I will try to start to implement it for the morning nap, too. He usually doesn't sleep 2hrs in the morning, max 1h30min. Yesterday (Saturday, 06/12, we tried everything but he didn't nap in the morning and slept 2h40min in the afternoon, until 15:40hr. Because of it he had 4hrs A time before bed time and it worked very well. He slept 4hrs until his 1st night feeding
[With regards to the standing up, how long has he been doing this? If this is recent, then it may be a new skill that he needs practice with. Can you help him work out how to get back down on his own by practicing in the day time? ]
he started to stand up in his bed 10 days ago. Yes, it is indeed a new skill and he is enjoying so much. At the moment, he is not interested on his toys and only holding everywhere and standing up all day along. I am doing everything to teach him how to sit down
How many times are you wanting to feed him at night? I would decide on what you are comfortable with not stick with it. At this age my DD had 2 NFs still.
We are going on holidays on Wednesday for 5 weeks and I will be flying back home from Brazil with him alone so I would like to keep the breastfeeding until our return, if he doesn't drop beforehand. At the moment, I am mainly breast feeding him only at the nights and in very rare occasions during the day as a snack. So, answering your question I would like to keep 1 time breast feeding at night, let's say until the end of Jan. As I still have a good milk supply it will be better if I reduce it slowly
When he is crying for 2-3 hours, are you with him, or in and out, or what all?
he sleeps by himself in his bedroom. When he cries at night, I go and feed him. I do try to calm him down first but it never works. He doesn't stop pulling my shirt or moving his head looking for the breast until he gets it. So, if he doesn't sleep after the feeding and starts the show, I put him on the bed, stay a little with him and leave the bedroom for couple of min. I am in/out few times, sometimes I pick him up to calm down and put him back...sometimes, I have to feed him again and stays in the bedroom until he falls asleep
As far as the actual teaching him to sleep part, have a look here at PUPD:How to PU/PD (inc age adaptations)
To be honest with you we tried the PU/PD before and it didn't work at all. He gets louder and louder
I would make yourself a little mattress of some sort on the floor or maybe a comfy chair so that you will be as comfortable as possible during all this, maybe even go to sleep!
As I mentioned above we are going on 5 weeks holidays and he will be sleeping on his bed but with us in the same room (3 weeks with my husband and I together + 2 weeks only with mama). So, I do hope things will get a little better. Actually, what does your experience say about the babies' sleep issues while holidays and sleeping in parents' bedroom?
I am looking forward to hearing your comments.
Best regards