Title says it. DD is 8 weeks & so far is resisting any sort of efforts to establish a regular bedtime routine. We do the same sequence of events at the same time every night, wash, into pj's, the intention is to then feed her before bed, but her feed times just arent fitting in. They are still very erratic & so we get the odd day where she feeds at 4 then again at 7 which works really well, but then we get a lot of days where she feeds at 5 or 6, but then isnt ready for a feed during her bedtime routine, so we can't do it properly. If I keep her up the extra hour to feed her she becomes overtired & screams, if I put her to bed without then she wakes early evening & screams.
It feels like every day is different & I want to try & establish some consistency for her as well as try & regain some sort of evening for me, they are currently spent trying to settle her back to sleep when she wakes every 20mins she only wants to sleep nuzzled up to my boob but thats another story My DS sort of fell into a regular pattern all by himself by around 6-8 weeks & I guess I naievely(sp?) expected dd to do the same & its not happening. Help!
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omama · 14/01/2015 21:21
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