Thank you both (third time I try to reply...!) - he does release lots of gas during night feeds, maybe he's just more relaxed and less disrupted by a shrieking brother
He still seems to take in a fair bit of milk though, which is why i'm wondering about daytime intake anf/or frequency.
Today I resumed feeding on both sides, which seems to make it last a bit longer...we'll see what happens tonight.
How's his EAS? This is a common age for nights to go off because daytime routine is not quite right.
I am trying to figure out his ideal A time - seems to last 1,5 hr first A time, then about 2 hrs. Times are not super regular because of mostly 45 min naps which are sometimes extendable...
I'll post his average day rather than today because he's a bit sick and it was all weird:
WU and E 7/7.30
A
S 8.30/9 45min to 1 hr
E 10/10.30, sometimes later
A
S 12/12.30 same as previous nap
E 13.30/14
A
S 15ish - usually this is the longest nap/easiest to extend, up to 1,5/2hrs
E 16.30/17
A
..now, here I usually try and usually fail to get him down for a catnap. So I try to give him some quiet time, but he seems happy to hang out so we generally E again around 18.30, bath, then BT around 19.30.
After this he wakes maybe an hour later, E and back to bed.
Also when DH is on morning shifts, DS2 has to be shuffled back and forth from DS1's day care so he spends quite some time in the car seat and takes even smaller naps.
Night sleep as such is the same, it's just the first long sleep that seems to have vanished
It could also be that he is waking for the dummy if he is reliant on it
I did wonder that - he used to spit it out fairly quickly, now keeps it for longer and sometimes for the whole nap. However, he doesn't necessarily wake when he loses it, especially at night. I think he is able to go to sleep without it but he definitely likes it to relax (plus I think he may be teething already so it might give him some relief for that too). At night I give him back the dummy if it's been less than 3 hours from last feed, but if he refuses it or spits it out right away then I feed him. I do use the dummy to extend short naps. He's learning to find it and replug himself; I have read in some other post that this would make it more of a comfort item and less of a prop, therefore less of a worry...correct?
