Why is it that he sleeps longer...

[SenoraPostrophe]

...when I rock him or feed him to sleep rather than when I actually manage to get him to sleep on his own?

He's 3 months and seeing as he hasn't managed to find his own routine, I'm trying the same routine I managed with dd (loosely based on GF, but without the nasty bits and without the absolute rigidity). To get him to sleep I use a variation on the pick up/put down thing in which I rock a little, stroke him and shush him instead of picking him up (because picking him up doesn't work). He won't take a dummy as dd did. But if that works then he only sleeps half an hour in the daytime, or about 2 hours at night, where if I keep rocking or feeding until he is sound asleep he will sleep a lot longer.

Anyone know why that would be?

I don't know Senora. Weirdly dd was the opposite. If I 'soothed' her to sleep either by feeding, rocking etc. she'd wake up much earlier, both day and night. Whereas if she went to sleep on her own she slept much better. I always put that down to the fact that if I'd got her off to sleep she'd wake up freaked out that I was no longer there or something like that.

Sorry, this is NO help whatsoever really is it?

thanks anyway Evita. Dd was like that too, which is why I'm at a loss. Perhaps he's an alien changeling or something.