Hi all,
I'm new here and have a huge problem all of a sudden! My 9-week old seems to have confused his days and nights and I am at my wits' end! I am trying to implement E.A.S.Y., and I also just (a week ago or so) transitioned DS from his swing to his crib at night. Here's how the last 36 hours or so have looked:
- ate at 11:00pm, fell asleep at about 11:30pm, woke at 12:45am
- cried until 1:45am when I fed him
- cried until 2:30am, slept until 3:30am
- cried until 4:45am when I fed him
- cried until 5:40am, then slept until 10:30am when I woke him up
- ate, then I kept him awake for playtime until 11:45am
- napped until 2:00pm, when I woke him again
- ate, kept him awake for playtime until 3:00pm, then he slept until 5:00pm when I woke him
- ate, then played until 6:30pm
- slept until 8:30pm, played until 9:40pm
- slept until 10:40pm, cried until 11:40pm then ate
- cried until 12:15am, then slept until 2:15am
- cried until 2:45am when I fed him
- fell asleep on his own right after eating, and slept from 3:00am until 4:00am
- cried until 5:30am when I fed him again, then cried for another half hour until he fell asleep at 6:00am
- slept until 10:00am when I woke him to eat
- that brings us to right now (10:45am), and he is sitting next to me in his bouncy chair, 1/2 awake and 1/2 asleep
Notes:
- all feeding amounts are between 4 - 5.5 oz (generally 5oz)
- when I feed him at night it is because he is showing signs of hunger by then, and his pacifier is not easing his crying anymore
- when he is awake at night and crying, I am trying shh/pat (hates it most of the time), pu/pd (stopped that quickly when I realized it made him cry harder), pacifier (can't hold it in on his own and cries and wakes as soon as it falls out or I take it away), leaving a light on, turning all lights off, background noise, no background noise, leaving the room to see if he stops on his own, sitting next to him and just letting him cry...nothing seems to work!!
- when he wakes and cries, I wait to go to him until I am sure he is not going to fall asleep on his own, as he occasionally does
- I am waking him at certain times in hopes of teaching him that he can't sleep all day, as he gladly would
- all sleeping happens in his crib now
So I've had 13 hours of sleep in the last 36 hours, which I'm sure could be worse, but...I feel like crap and the tiny amount of patience I had to begin with is wearing very thin. When he was sleeping in his swing, which was in motion all night, he was sleeping from 11pm - 6 or 7am, eating, then going back to sleep for another 3-4 hours. I expected some night waking once I got him to sleep in his crib, but this is nuts. Each night seems to be worse than the night before. I started waking him after 2 hours of napping during the day in hopes of him being more tired at night, and it didn't work. When he's crying at night, it seems to be evenly split between crying because he's tired, and crying because he wants to play with me and I won't talk to or make eye contact with him. Please help me guys, what am I doing wrong?!?
*edit* I should also add that DS does not allow himself to be swaddled anymore - he doesn't like being confined by blankets.
