Thanks! So great to get help... I had actually read those links... very helpful info but not all the answers I am looking for... (Thanks for the assurance I'm doing the right thing with the top up before BT. )
He can often happily manage a 4hr schedule, and if left to demand feed has routinely done 4 hrs even when 3mths old. (When he doubled his birth weight and used to do longer stretches at night... 5 or even 6 hours.) I am grateful he is doing so well, but if I can do something clever now to expedite STTN i want to! It took me 8 months with DS1 and he is an EW so not that much sleep going on in our house!
Is CN 45 mins?
These days we can do the 4 hr EASY provided DS2 naps well because sometimes he will only do 2X 45 min and one 1.5 hr. Thats really my main problem I think... because if is A too long it throws everything out... He is too tired to eat enough or can't stay awake long enough to get to 4hrs. Should I post to naps and ask Scottishmommy!? I use white noise and did some training previously on joining cycles which he can now do. (often sleeps 2hr stretches.) But I think he wakes because of a noisy house - difficult to avoid with stone floors and a 2 yr old.
Also with my other questions
Question:
Aim for E = 4 hours at night or 4 hours during the day first?
Still keen to know if I should offer 3.5 hourly during the day till he does 4hrly by himself at night (or once he is easily able to do 4hr schedule during the day is the idea that he then starts doing longer at night because of it?)
and
Question:
Which feed drops first? DF or 3am feed?
I remember with DS1 that the nurse said 3am feed was the last to go, but now I am remembering that Tracy was supporting the DF specifically to facilitate dropping the 3am feed right? So the idea is to DF till 3am drops, then drop DF.
Until a week to so ago LO was waking for the 11pm but lately I have been doing a proper DF. Was wondering last night if I should leave it and see when he wakes?
I have also started wondering about habitual waking because it's pretty well timed (2:30am when I Paci and he wakes again at 3 when I feed. and 5:30am same story) Think I'll give it some more time and then perhaps try the wake to sleep?
Yay for the BW forum! Thanks so much