Okay, I'm unsure about how to handle short naps when it comes to EASY. My lo is 14 wks. We've sort of been on EASY since birth. However, it's been thrown off by eating issues (he has reflux and when meds are off he would sometimes struggle to take a full feed and so we'd have to go back to a 2.5 EASY b/c he'd be hungry sooner). Anyway, what's really thrown us off for awhile is short naps. He is a 45/50 min napper. Now occasionally he'll throw in a long nap (just to let me know he can do it) but for the most part it's 45 min. I've tried W2S and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. The problem is, he's pretty textbook when it comes to his awake time. Right now we're up to 1.5 hours, but that's when he gets fussy and so we go to his room, swaddle, cuddle and listen to 1 or 2 lullabyes and he's drowsy and I can lay him in his crib still awake and he goes to sleep. But when he wakes up we're just at 2.5. So I wait 30 minute to feed, but then he's still tired at 1.5 awake. I put him down for a nap but when he wakes it's only been 2hrs since his last feed...and so on.
Any suggestions? Do I just keep working on extending naps? I've tried shh pat and other things to get him back to sleep, but they've never worked. He's approaching the 4 month mark and even though I think he could handle 4 hours btwn feeding (and would probably feed better) I don't know if his A and S time will jive with it.
Thanks for any insight.
