We have a 7 week old breast fed boy, he has settled into 2 hourly feeds - to the second day and night. This is tolerable - his weight gain is spot on- but the issue is settling him to sleep. We have been on EASY for a week now, and prior to finding the routine in the book, had more or less followed this naturally aside from sleep and breast association. Ed sleeps in a natures nest cot, a bouncy hammock, which he loves to settle in and has now got a dummy to go with the swadling which has made for a calmer young man.
The big problem is the transition into sleep from being settled and staying asleep. He grunts and wakes a great deal from his 1 am feed through to the 5 am feed,when I am usually exhausted and feed on my side in bed, we both dose off and then its back on track for the 7am start to day. He is capable of falling asleep unaided - he did this first time yesterday for the days naps, but as we had to go out got overtired and then refused to settle into his late afternoon nap.
I have tried to extend the feed times, even used formula or breast and formula mix, but it stays at 2 hours whatever we try.
What more can I do to aid the transition to sleep? am using shh pat and it goes on and on and on sometimes into the next feed. HELP!
