I'll be over in a minute - you just have to ask. If you get the book you will find he is PERFECTLY NORMAL and I would kill for 4.5 hours sleep (not literally but you get my drift)
No - Oscar is not sleeping. Never has. We have just moved from 2 hourly feeds 24/7 to 3-4 hourly but he is still awake every 1-2 hours mostly. I occasionally get a 3 hour stint (like last night but that was after he cried in his cot for an hour while I tried to comfort him without picking him up - he kept waking if he fell asleep on me and so the cycle would begin again) but that is rare. Currently teething which is not helping and solids are making him fart - which he needs to wake up and cry for before going back to sleepI have tried seeing if he will self settle but he doesn't. Just cries more and I can't do CC. But I will survive. I have made 7 months with most of my sanity intact (I think LOL) so we can do this.
Seriously - if you ever need me you just have to call. I'm not too far away to whack some sense into you
ETA - Just to make you feel better, here is our (infant led) routine. Wakes around 6-7am for a feed, up and plays for about 1.5 hours before a nap approx 8.30am (usually 30-40 minutes). Up for breakfast 9am ish, play and generally another sleep 10am. This could be one or two sleep cycles but he usually wakes hungry (3 hours like clockwork - was 2) if I don't feed him first, feeds and goes back to sleep for a nap. Up around 11am, nap 12.30, up around 1pm lunch / boobie / play until 3pm, nap again (sometimes 2 sleep cyces) up at 3.30 / 4pm for play / feed /solids around 6pm / bath / feed and maybe sleep but usually naps and wakes at 8.30 for another feed. May sleep at this stage but usually up at 11.30 for another feed if not awake before for a re-settle. Last night was then awake at 1230 (fed again to re-settle), 1250 and cried until 1.50am. Slept until 5am when he woke for a feed. We were up at 6.30.
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