Sorry for the long post, but I’m going to try and explain everything.
My DS had bacterial meningitis/ sepsis at birth and was on strong IV antibiotics and had a 8 day SCBU stay. From night one he screamed the place down every waking moment. He had lots of difficulties feeding and got really messed around with tube feeds/ cup feeds/ bottle feeds and BF (I wanted to exclusively breastfeed but there were issues with latch). I now exclusively BF.
DS is now 9 weeks. He still is incredibly fractious and cries a lot during the day, more so in the early evening/ evening. He does however sleep very well 10-7/8 (we co sleep).
my issue is his day time naps and actually getting him to sleep in the evenings. He absolutely will not sleep anywhere other than in the carrier. You just can’t put him down even when he’s in the deepest of sleeps. It also takes a variable amount of time to get him to sleep, 20 mins onwards. Issue is whilst trying to get him to sleep he gets himself so worked up that it’s obviously counter productive. I watch his wake windows, have tried dummy (absolute rejects/ gags), feeding to sleep (only works at night), white noise, swaddling (hates it), bouncing rocking swaying sushing. He hates the car seat and screams blue murder, hates his pram and won’t sleep in that either.
I just feel like I can’t leave the house because of this and that he will never learn good sleeping habits. Is there anyone else who had similar experiences and who’s baby ended up napping well/ independently eventually??