hi i am new to this, so i may waffle - will try not too.... my boy is almost 4 months old and has been on EASY for about 6 weeks, 3 hr routine, i extended him to 4 hours 2 weeks ago as he seemed ready as wasn't eaten much anymore - this was tough but we have sorted this now
and his routine is great, he is very happy and contented during the day:
0600 bottle - approx 120-180mls at each feed - play
0800 nap
1000 bottle - play
1200 nap
1400 bottle - play
1600 nap
1800 bottle then play, bath
1930 bottle (cluster feeding) then sleep. ( does not have dummy to go to sleep with at this point in the night)
2230-2300 dream feed.
He now wakes at around 0300 each morning - I would settle him with a dummy and that was fine - now he wakes at 0300, 0330, 0400, 0430 - you get the idea!?!
again me and dummy are settling him - now I must confess I think i have been going to him too quickly, but now when I am trying to leave him to settle himself he can't so he cries until i go in - I don't know how to correct my accidental parenting! Plus how do I wean him off the dummy - he hasn't found his thumb yet. Also I have tried the wake to sleep but it didn't fix it - which makes me wonder if i am expecting too much of him - should he still have a night feed (I never had these problems when he did..) how many of you are still night feeding at his age??
I do think, to add to it, that he may be teething - dribbling lots and ramming everything into his mouth - doesn't seem in pain and has no teeth yet.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated as i am now very very tired and finding it harder and harder to think straight....
Thank you. Sarah