I have just started trying to get my ds to sleep a bit longer. He is 19 weeks and has never been a great sleeper but a couple of weeks ago started to wake every 2 hours or less. After a week I decided enough was enough and did a kind of version of baby whisperer and pick up put down.
So now I put him down at 7.30 and give him a dream feed at 10/10.30. I have decided that I'm not going to feed him again until between 3-4am as I know he can definitely go for 5 hours (that's the longest he's ever gone). But he always wakes between 1 and 2am. We try and calm him down with patting and shushing and eventually he goes back down, but it can take ages. I thought after a week we would have moved on from this. He usually then goes until 3ish when I feed him and then he goes until 7ish.
Before starting this and before his regular waking, on a good night he was going down at 8pm, waking for a feed at 12 and then another at 4. Often after the 12 o'clock feed it was 2 hourly.
I'm not sure if the dream feed is a good thing or not. He only goes 3 hours after it now, but I'm worried without it he'd be awake even earlier. Am I making sense?
Sorry, I'm going on, but I just want someone to say it might get better, or give me a possible alternative or just say they get it. I'm pretty knackered...