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Routine (or lack of...)

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MellowBird85 · 06/11/2018 16:29

Hello, I’m new here and this is my first post although I have used this site so much for advice since becoming a mum! I’d like some advice on getting baby into a routine as I’m at my wits end with my 3 month old son who is in no sort of routine at all. Just to mention he was born prematurely (34+5 and was also on the small side) so his adjusted age is actually around 2 months. I suppose I tell a little bit of a lie that he’s in no routine as I do bath / bottle around 6pm every night and most of the time he will fall asleep in his Moses basket between 8-9pm then wake up for a feed around 4am and then sleep til 7am so he’s actually doing really well at night! The issue is the day...for example yesterday, he slept from 10am until 1:30pm (he was actually just grizzling but I woke him up for a feed) then went back to sleep from 2pm and I had to wake him up at 4pm otherwise I know he wouldn’t have slept at night! As I suspected, he was unsettled last night because of all the sleep he had in the day (woke around 2:30am and would not go back to sleep - I’m now shattered). Then today the complete opposite...he just would not sleep for longer than 10 minutes. I tried rocking, white noise, taking him out in pram, etc. but with no success. His feeds are all over as well. I think he has infant dyschezia (where he hasn’t yet learned to coordinate his muscles to poo properly) so he will thrash, strain and cry and often needs a bottle to empty his bowels (which he does with almost every feed). It just seems like a vicious cycle of him waking himself up trying to poo, becoming overtired and compensating massively the next day! Any advice would be much appreciated.

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blackcat86 · 06/11/2018 16:31

I downloaded the 'little ones' sleep program for £30 online and that has sleeping and feeding times which you can do based on adjusted age. I don't stick strictly to it but it's a useful guideline.

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