DS is 16 weeks.
He is getting the hang of settling to sleep by himself - naps plenty. ( too much) during the day.
On a good night he will sleep from approx midnight to 5 and then after a very short feed back down until 8.
He is getting between 12-14 hours sleep a day.
He is showing no signs of extending much beyond this 5 hour stint yet.
This is all ok and I am feeling like I can get enough rest like this - but the thing I need to tackle is getting some of his sleep to happen during the evening and promote a proper bedtime ideally 8 pm- at the moment I feel like he is probably ready for this but the current pattern is just reinforcing a fairly short night - made up for by napping loads in the day. He is awake for 2 hours from 10 pm until midnight otherwise he isn't sleepy enough.
I am reading NCSS and there are lots of good ideas in there - but I still dont know where to start - am scared that unless I think very carefully about how to do it he will start doing his 5 hours from 8-1 and then my nights will be very wakeful.
I have a 2.5 year old too so I really don't want to risk getting too knackered again as it affects how on form I am for her and DH.
Has anyone else had to deal with this ?
DD was sleeping 7-7 by this time pretty much all by herself so am at a bit of a loss.
TIA