DS (12 weeks) is an EAS baby: Eat - Awake - Sleep. He's not an 'easy' baby as he is definitely high-maintenance, and I don't get much You time as during the day I can only persuade him to sleep in a sling.
Anyway, I was wondering whether it was possible to change his daytime routine to Ah-YES (Awake, happy, you time, eat sleep).
Has anyone made this change with their DC? Any advice or thoughts would be welcome.
At the moment, he never gets drowsy during the day. He will yawn and clearly be tired, but doesn't seem to be able to relax enough to be able to drop off enough except when he's being jiggled in the sling. I thought that perhaps having a full milky tummy might help him get drowsy enough for another method of settling him to work.
At the moment, if I try to feed him during the day when he's tired, he will just cry. I don't know if that's because when I've tried, I've left it too late and missed his tired window (which is very short) or whether he simply isn't hungry because I fed him when he woke up. He can only manage to stay awake for 30-45 mins before the yawns start.
At bedtime and during the night he will happily feed himself to sleep, or at least into a state of drowsiness - but he has no awake time then and is much more tired than during the day (and much less distracted by everything going on around him).
Since he has real difficulty getting to sleep, and gets overtired very easily, I'm trying to work out ways to help him get enough sleep rather than teaching him to go to sleep on his own at this stage. (I'm planning to work on that when he's older, when I can hopefully mess with his sleeping habits without such a risk of chronic over-tiredness as we have now).
Thanks!