Hi sasha- i hope you dont mind me crashing-but i am having very similar delemas with my little boy!! I was just about to post a thread but saw this one and thought i would just join in!!

My biggest problem is that he will easily fall asleep after feeding- usually on me, but then the second i try and move him to his bassinette- its all over!! I have tried doing it as soon as he falls asleep- i have tried waiting till i think he is in a deeper sleep- and both ways he still wakes up!!!!!!

Or if he does resettle- then the sleep only lasts about half an hour- (i had never heard of these sleep cycles before... very interesting!!!)

He has started sleeping more at night- he has his shower with dad at about 5:30- then a feed and he goes down for a good 5-6 hours then a mid night feed then another 4-5 hours- but then then he wakes at 5:30am or so he will go back to sleep but it all goes down hill from there some days it will only be two hours - other days he is really good and sleeps another 3 or 4 but when he wakes at the 9-10am time he wont sleep for longer than an hour at the most during the day- or its a 30 mintue nap here or there- and then he gets REALLY cranky and over tired in the afternoon and it can take up to an hour or two of settling and feeding to get him to sleep- and sadly i have found that he will just cry and cry and work himself into such a state that i can not settle him and he just basically has to cry till he wears himself out- which is torture for me to watch!!!

I will be taking on some of the advice already given and try keeping him a little warmer ( i tend to think coz its day time he will get too hot- but maybe he needs a good wrap) and also checking him with his sleep cycles.. i am going to start keeping a bit of a journal on his sleeping too- coz the days seem to blur together and i dont always remember how much he has actually slept!!) But any advice on the moving a sleeping baby without waking would be appriciated!!!

Thanks sacha for the thread- good luck with the rest of the afternoon!!

SB