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To think it might be time to buy a book as I dont know what I am doing!

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Beatrixemerald · 06/10/2014 19:16

dd is 15 weeks old and I still haven't managed to get her to sleep anywhere other than with me at night. I am ebf and feed her to sleep. On average she wakes every 3 hours or so.
I dont really know when her naps are other than she seems to have about three per day two short and one long but these seem to happen only when we are doing something so happen in the pram/car.
Bedtime routine is a bath then feeding on and off for a couple of hours but I have to then go to bed with her about nine.
All in all she is a really happy contented baby but with no real routine or ability to sleep alone and I dont know where to start.
Before she was born I said I was just going to go with instinct but now I feel I am doing everything wrong.
Any book reccomendations to get me on track ? is it too late?

OP posts:
kentishgirl · 07/10/2014 12:00

'he is a really happy contented baby'

then you are doing brilliantly!

I think the routines thing is more for parents benefit than the baby. I didn't want one, never had one, and everything turned out fine. I was happy with my flexible, sleep anywhere, anytime baby and toddler. I feel sorry for parents who condemn themselves to having to be in a certain place at a certain time doing a certain thing.

15 weeks is still very young and a lot of work, whether you follow a routine or not. Do whatever suits you and baby.

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