Okay I go back to work on June 1 and I’m desperate to get this nap and sleep thing figured out.
I’m a FTM and up until the four month regression our baby slept in the bassinet next to our bed. He would sleep through the night or wake once to feed. The four month regression hit and he was up sometimes every hour or two. I mentally couldn’t handle it and so my husband suggested co sleeping so I could get my sleep.
Now we’re stuck. We start him off in his crib and then when he wakes up…which is usually after an hour if we’re lucky…I move him to our room. Lately I’ve just held him and placed him on our bed and he zonks out. If I place him in his bassinet then he screams. If he is asleep on our bed for 30 minutes even an hour and I try and move him to his bassinet then he screams.
I don’t feel comfortable with cosleeping long term but I’m afraid I’ve created a monster. In addition, his naps are the bs 30 minutes MAYBE 45 unless I contact nap. If I contact nap I can usually get them to be over an hour. I obviously can’t do that going back to work. He was doing five naps a day and I got him down to 4. If he only naps 30 minutes at a time…I don’t know how to get him to 3 naps.
Bed time is usually around 730-800 but can change depending on when his last bridge nap is. Wake up lately has been around 630 but it’s chaotic. The chaos of the naps makes the day kind of difficult to manage. I use huckleberry and I feel like it’s all over the place.
I feel like we need to implement some kind of basic more routine schedule before conquering sleep training. Should I just bite the bullet and do the 2/2.5/2.5/3?
His average wake windows right now are 2 hours. I would also appreciate any guidance tips on breaking the feeding to sleep cycle. Even if he’s slept through the night he won’t eat a big bottle first thing. If I wait an hour even he will have maybe an ounce or two? Meanwhile once I take him in the nursery he will drink 4-9 ounces. He’s averaging 28 ounces a day and doing well according to our doctor.
He just turned five months last Wednesday. No sleep training yet.