Hi my son is 8 weeks old and we are having a few problems with sleep. I read the book when my DS was just a week or so old and then tried EASY but after a few days of struggling with it and it stressing both me and him I stopped and let him do his own thing. Then roughly 3 weeks ago I thought I would give it another go as he was all over the place and so was I and neither of us knew what we should be doing and it gave me a starting point when he started crying, I knew that he was coming up to a feed or had just had a feed e.t.c
The problems are he won’t self sooth, a lot of this came from him having two problems colic and some kind of digestion thing which is a lot better now. So now is the time to teach him to sleep on his own but I have so many questions and there is so much info here I don’t know where to start. I have read the interview and it has answered some of my questions but I have more!!
It says that if he hasn’t gone to sleep by 40 min I should get him up have some quiet time and try again we haven’t mastered this and he hasn’t had a proper nap yet and we are 3 days in. Even if he does go to sleep he still won’t sleep longer than 20 min even if I sit with him the whole time and try and get him to go back to sleep he just doesn’t. I am spending 2 hours + trying to help him each time.
Do we have to shh /pat if he is happy just lying there can I just let him lie?
At night if he isn’t asleep after 40 min should I pick him up and hold him for a few mins or just keep going till he falls asleep?
If he hasn’t slept at night by the time he would be due a feed to I feed him? Up until now when he was cuddled to sleep he would go down at bout 8 - 8.30 and sleep till about 3ish last night it was almost 3 hours since his last feed before he dropped off and I wasn’t sure if I should have fed him if he didn’t go to sleep.
We are BF at the moment and have a good evening routine of feed at 6 bath, massage and then another bottle of expressed milk at 7.
I am sure there are many more questions but my sleep deprived brain can’t think at the moment!!!
TIA
