Hi Tawnia,
Thank you for replying.
Here are some answers to your questions. My pedi wanted me to stop swaddling my DS because she feels he's 1. too old and 2. will start to roll over soon and then the swaddle (we use the Miracle Blanket) becomes a blanket in the crib and that's not good.
I will look on the props board about the binkie.
I have to be honest, am extremely frustrated. My DS was up again all night last night. I am at my wits end and honestly cannot keep doing this - I am almost 40 and it's too much for me to handle. I am a walking zombie. I also noticed since i've been reading these boards/books his night wakings have gotten worse so I honestly sometimes feel to just go back to what I was doing prior (I followed EASY since he was born but I never used to wake him from naps or morning which I do now...) as whatever I keep trying to do (like getting him on the 4 Hour easy, making sure he's up at 7AM even if he was just up at 5:30...) is making things worse.
Anyway, back to his schedule. I have been slowly getting him to the 4 hour EASY and am on day 14 of the transition (according to the BW Questions book where it tells you how to transition in 15 min increments every few days). He can go about 4 hours for first feed but not much more than 3 hrs 15 for rest - sometimes 3 and a half - just depends so these all change which is again why things are all out of wack. Last night he ate an hour earlier than usual before bed so I gave a DF and that didn't help as you can see! I don't do DF's as they started more trouble for me and stopped that and do not wish to do them.
Here is yesterday's schedule: (I offer him 7 oz each feed, he won't always take that so I wrote what he will eat - I only offer 4 oz for night feedings in hopes he will stop them!)
Night wakings - 11PM, 1:30 AM, 2:30 AM (fed 4 oz formula), 4:30 AM (again fed 4 oz, wouldn't go to sleep, was screaming - usually don't do such close feedings but nothing else worked), 6AM - up, gave paci until 8AM
8AM- 6 oz feed (usually eats between 7 and 8AM)
8:30 - sleep because was up so much so everything to messed up(why again this whole EASY thing is really frustrating me cause if ONE thing is off seems it's all off...)
Woke up at 9- went back down again at 10ish until noon
noon - ate 7 oz
2PM - nap for 1.5 hours
3:30- 7 oz feed
5:30-6 - cat nap (he gets very tired around here)
6:30- 8 oz (offered this cause he was eating an hour earlier than usual - he usually gets his last feed between 7:30-8 and now that we are on 4 hour EASY it's earlier which may be my problem)
8:30 bed (he is not ready to go to sleep earlier although wonder if he should go to bed at 6:30 cause he's so tired then but then he'd really miss a later feed and get up???)
I don't DF but did last night cause he ate early and gave him 6 oz at 11
Was up again all night ever 2 hours like night before and he woke at 6:30 AM again today (after a 5AM feed) and I fed him again at 7AM hoping to get things rolling and he went down for a nap about 9 which is where I am now.....
I don't like him getting those night feedings - it used to be just one feeding but now he's getting 2 since he's up so much. The paci is getting worse too where he can't go back to sleep without it at night. He can fall asleep when I put him down without it but not when he wakes and can't go back to sleep. Also something else that's changed, we used to be able to put him down to bed and he'd coo and talk to himself and go right to sleep now he cries for a bit and protests.
I just feel we are going the wrong way in all this and I don't know what to do. I've read both BW books and this board and again it seems to be getting worse for me and I can't function in the day with this little bit of sleep and really need some answers.
Thanks so much!
Lauren