Well, It has been a couple of days on the new routine and we are not having any success. He is back to waking up every hour or so through the night. Sometimes we can give him the soother and he will go back to sleep right away, and sometimes he screams for 30-60 minutes. At which point he is so tired that he will finally take the soother and fall asleep (then he will wake up again in another hour for the same type of routine). The PU/PD is still not working. I feel like I have tried everything.
The only improvement is that I don't have to feed him 5 or 6 times a night. I feed him at 10ish, 2ish and 5ish. We are still having a problem getting to 10 to do the DF. He wakes at 9:30 - then I put him back to sleep, then he is usually up again at 9:45 at which point I may be able to get him back to sleep, if not then I have to feed him. Should I bother trying to put him back to sleep at 9:30/9:45 only to wait 15 minutes to do a DF and hope that he doesn't wake up again in the 15 minutes?
How can I get him to sleep longer? We have the daily routine of EASY 4, PU/PD doesn't work (or I give up too soon, but I can't listen to him cry for over an hour....and it doesn't lessen even when I do it consistently over 4+ days), I am feeding him more during the day, and we have introduced rice cereal (in the evening). Should I give him cereal at bedtime instead of at dinner?
All of my family and friends are at a loss. They can't believe that none of this works and what a terrible sleeper my LO is. What is my next step? Any suggestion or advice is more than welcomed.
Thanks