First of all I just want to say this is by NO means a stealth boast whatsoever.
Dc1 was an appalling sleeper up until 6.5 months and would wake every 2 hours during the night, and not nap at all in the day - not even in pram, leading to a hysterical screaming baby. The worst it got was waking every 45 mins and taking 2-3 hours to settle at night so I was averaging 90 mins or so of broken sleep most nights. I understand what real horrendous sleep deprivation is as I used to wonder the streets in floods of tears everyday from it screaming baby in tow, while strangers often tutted on shops and informed me baby was obviously hungry (rolls eyes).
I was hoping to get some advice re dc2. He's 11 weeks old and since 3 weeks old has been sleeping through the night 10 hours solidly. He now does 12 hours solidly, although every other night I will dreamfed around 11pm as I feel it's too long for a baby his age to go without milk. His weight is no problem.
After 2 hours of waking in the morning he gets tired and I put him down for a nap with the white noise machine. He will sleep for 3-4 hours.
He then doesn't sleep from 2pm-7/8pm so we're taking 6 hours of no sleep. He becomes overtired and screams until bedtime when he will happily go to sleep on his own, no problem.
But those 6 hours are hell, poor dc1 has to listen to non stop screaming and no matter what I do nothing gets him to sleep. It would help if he even had an hour just to take the edge off. He will sometimes fall asleep in the carrier if were out, but only for say 10-20mins.
Any advice is appreciate.