I need someone to knock some sense into me as I'm getting a bit demotivated with DS2's sleep. He's been good at going down in his crib from early on and since we introduced a bedtime/nighttime bottle of formula at 2-3 weeks old he's only been having one night feed between 10pm and 5-6am, so I know I shouldn't complain.
But he's still sleeping for exactly the same amount of time, 4-4.5 hours generally. When he was 3 weeks and we first introduced the bedtime bottle, he did 3 or 4 nights of 5-5.5 hours which was amazing. And then last week by fluke he did one stint of 6 hours. But that's it, every other single night is 4-4.5 hours, we can set our watches by it.
I know it's fine, he's only 8 weeks tomorrow so I really shouldn't complain. And I'm trying not to compare him to DS1 who was a great sleeper early on and was sleeping 8+ hours every night by 10 weeks (and probably doing 6-7 hours every night by this age). But it's more the fact that he hasn't increased how long he sleeps at all, in 5 weeks, and has actually gone back from those amazing 5+ hour stints he did back then.
It'll get better right? He's great otherwise at night ie he seems to know it's night time so is so easy to put in his bed at bedtime, and then again after his night / first morning feed. I just keep picturing us in 2 months' time when he's say 4 months old and is still waking for one night feed (which by that point he won't actually need!). He was combi fed from 3 weeks but this last week now we've moved onto formula completely and got into a roughly 3-4 hour feeding routine in the day.