doh where is my reply? Gosh I hate it when I click preview instead of post

marcellus I was doing the chart because I'd wake up in the night not knowing if it had been 2 mins or 2 hours since the last feed kwim so it actually helped keep me sane lol but I can see why it'd be really annoying for others. IN fact I haven't been writing anything down for the last 2 days and I"m all over the place again. I thought I'd stop doing it when he was sleeping more and I was in more of a routine but I'm still really fatigued as he's only sleeping for 2 hours at a time.

Which brings me to today. DS is still waking every 2 hours for a feed and I'm only getting to sleep for 1.5 hours at a time and now (for the past week) h'es also decided that he doesn't want to settle for at least one of those wake ups. Thankfully dh has been here and he's taken him out of the bedroom and settled him in his pram and then brought the pram back into the bedroom once he's asleep. The sleeps in the pram have been closer to 3 hours! Whatever works is fine by me but I still really want/need him to sleep for longer periods during the night.

So here's my new plan. Sleeping during the day to be no longer than 3.5 hours. I'm a big believer in never waking a sleeping baby but he's sensitive to noise so if we go into the room and make a bit of noise he should wake up gently during his day time naps and still be refreshed. I think he's pretty much sleeping 3.5-4 hours during the day at the moment so that wont be a big deal. The second thing I'll try is to give him his massage before his bath during the grumpy afternoon phase where we usually can't wait to get him in the bath. Sometimes we are needing to bath him just after 5pm as he's just too upset and as i mentioned he is sometimes even too tired by the end of it all to have a good feed. But on the feeding issue he's had a huge feed before bed for the last 2 nights and it hasn't made any difference Anyway I'm also going to try some cluster feeding from around 4pm but that may not work as he doesn't take the boob unless he wants food which is a bit of a bummer when I'd like to settle him back to sleep during the night with the boobie.

Any other suggestions will be much appreciated!