Hi,
Well i tried a few variations to her routine and so far she is SET on eating four hourly. She wont eat three hourly as she isnt hungry would you believe. The only prob is that she doesnt sleep the four hour routine as yet?
So Im still going to feed her four hourly and I may need to do EASASE for a while and see how she handles that. I just hope she doesnt get confused as sometimes she thinks she is hungry after a 40min nap, but if I feed her she barely ears a quarter of a bottle (snacking) so I need to watch that. I think this EASASE is the only way at the moment until she learns to nap better?
I know some people suggest sh.sh.sh.sh pat pat when they wake from a 40min nap but when I go in there she is so wide awake, there is no way she will sleep again so soon. It would have to be a screaming match and then she would sleep from pure exhaustion which isnt the point im trying to get across so I might just keep getting her up and hoping that at some day she may sleep for longer?
The one result I can say is that my night time routine works so well she literally knows exactly what comes next each time! It doesnt involve much at this age but if only she could understand a daytime nap routine as well. Its prob a little my fault as I cant seem to find a routine that works, hence why each day is different. I think now I need to stick to the feeding times and hope her little body clock will eventually sleep around these feed times as it will get used to the time of day she is fed.
It is at the moment
6:30a. m
10:30a.m
2:30p.m
6:00p.m (as she wants to go to bed at 6:30pm each night so I allow for some awake time)
2am feed, although sometimes she doesnt want it and she goes through to 6:00am/6:30a.m awake?
She will often go back down for her first nap at around 7:45a.m and then awakes around 1hr later, which means she has a while to wait until that next feed. I might see if I can sneak another nap in before she feeds again? Only trialling will tell.
Everytime however feedtime runs into the end of her waketime and I cant seem to work this one out until she sleeps longer. Could you still call it waketime if she doesnt fall asleep at the bottle and only stays awake say 15min after feed?
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Hopefully in due time this will all fall into place as she is still little and doesnt have a set body clock just yet, but I can just keep trying a felxible routine until she decides what she likes best I guess?