If anyone out there can help me, I would be ever so grateful. My 19 week old has acid reflux and slept through the night for three days on week eight (he was strapped down (literally) to an incline pillow where he couldn't move his arms like a tight swaddle, but as he got bigger it is really not meant for sleeping so we have his crib propped up and he is taking medication. I don't think the reflux is a problem anymore at night.
Right now we are switching from a 3 hour routine to a four hour routine. I breast feed one side only at each feed and he is satisfied (usually 15 minutes..he is a fast eater..but sometimes at the dream feed we mix half EBM and half formula.
E:7AM
A:7:15 play with Mommy, toys, every A time is this way
S:8:30-45 (he starts getting cranky after an hour and a half) cereal feed (1-2 tablespoons if he takes it)
Y:not much Y time he's a 45 minute napper. I usuallly go back in there and use the pacifier or soothe in the crib for 45 minutes and if I'm lucky he'll go down for 45 more minutes
El:11AM
A:11:15
S:12:30-12:45 (really depending on when he woke up from the 1st nap)
Y: once again..40 minute naps..same routine as the first nap
E:2:45 (we are working on stretching it out to 3)
A:3:00
S:3:45 (this is the hardest nap of all, he's normally pretty wired at this point and won't go to sleep till after maybe an hour of soothing or will sleep 30 minutes and I do P.U.P.D but does not work yet
Y:
E:5:30 (we are working on going to 6 and eventually 7)
A: bath. cereal (1-2 tablespoons if he takes it, quiet play time, book, cluster feed and bed by 7:3o
Will sometimes wake up once or twice before dream feed, has been having a hard time going down at night
He normally wakes for his dream feed around 10:15.
The night wakings are unpredictable. He would wake up 1-2 times a night before we started moving him to a four hour schedule, once to feed and once to be readjusted, but since he is 18.5 lbs, we have been trying to use the paci to stop the night feedings. He wakes up around 4 times a night at unpredictable times, where we can put the paci in. Sometimes he sucks and spits iit out and is satisfied for another hour, sometimes he sucks and as soon as it falls out he is up again (the latter normally happens around 5ish if it happens). When he wakes it starts as a mantra cry but escalates to a full blown cry.
I am so sleep deprived with short naps and not good sleep at night. Please help if you can. I have had my baby on EASY since birth.