Hoping someone might be able to give a FTM some advice here! DS is 14 weeks old and I cannot get him to sleep. Day naps are hit and miss - sometimes 10/20 minutes sometimes an hour or two. The only way I can get him to nap in the day is via a walk in the pram or holding him in the sling and then transferred to the cot. I presume at this age that is normal. I am following his wake windows and looking out for signs of tiredness.
Bedtime however is proving to be a major challenge and I am struggling! He does not want to go to sleep until between 22:00 and 23:00. I’ve tried earlier in the day but it makes no difference he will not go down earlier. His last nap in the afternoon (around between 4:30-5:30) is half an hour). He will take at least 3 hours to go to sleep from the start of the last feed and is either wide awake or crying. Then once he drops off and is transferred to the cot, wakes up and we start again. He will fed maybe twice in the 3 hours. I feel like this amount of time to get to sleep is not normal and he is exhausting himself. I rock, sing, dim the lights etc. once he is asleep he is asleep and usually wakes up around 4am and then 7am and then after 7am he will usually nap again not long after that wake up and feed. Any advice greatly appreciated. I feel like I’m failing him and worry he isn’t getting enough sleep.