Hi again,
Well thanks for offering advice.
My baby, Benjamin, is 7 weeks old.
I am struggling in particular with him doing eat, activity, sleep in the right order.
I feed him (25-45 minutes) and he wants to fall asleep, but I keep him awake to do activity and he gets hungry or tired/overstimulated, (I am not always sure which) and then i try to put him down to nap when I see the cues, but he cries so much, quite hysterically for so long as soon as i put him down (while i show him I am there but trying not to pick him up unless he gets really upset) that I eventually pick him up. As SOON as I pick him up he is quiet and starts to dose on my shoulder. I again put him down and it all happens again. Eventually he is crying from hunger as its gone on so long, so we end up doing eat, activity, cry, cry, cry, eat and then i feel he is so very tired that he must sleep.
The only one that seems to work ok is at bathtime, whereafter i put him down and he manages to sleep eventually. I think this is the most well defined ritual, bathtime so he seems to know after that its sleeptime.
So of course, the Y in easy is non existant.
However, at night, when he is swaddled he sleeps really well for 3 or 4 hour stretches - no problem.
SO the schedule looks something like
Appreciate any advice,
Thanks!