you poor thing - a screaming baby is pretty traumatic isn't it. Maybe for his big sleep at night you can start setting up a bedtime routine. Ours is a bath (but not always - sometimes I'm lazy LOL), then a cuddle and feed/comfort to sleep. We use a hammock so if Imran wakes up a little while I'm putting him to sleep its easy to just bounce him back to sleep again. Yasin is nearly 2 and we still follow pretty much the same routine except we've added a nudie run and reading a book to it. Some nights he'll go to sleep on his own and other nights he still likes to have company until he goes to sleep. I think that doing the same thing before bed every night helps them to understand what is happening and since its predicable its relaxing IYKWIM.
If putting Jensen down awake is distressing you and him then I think it would be best if you just give it a miss and keep comforting him to sleep - they grow up so fast so why not enjoy the cuddles while you can.
Also for his day sleeps - after 6 weeks he might be starting to want more awake time between his naps. When you put him down are you doing it based on the time (ie he's been awake for an hour so he needs a nap) or are you basing it on tired signs (jerky movements, grizzling, eye rubbing etc). I find that I get much better results from watching for tired signs than I do from worrying about the clock.
Routine - Usually I just follow a 'baby-led' routine of feed - play - sleep. When bubs wakes up he cops a feed, then he has some awake time (playing, tummy time, sitting in his pram watching the world go by etc) and then, wheh he starts to look tired its sleep time. If he seems hungry before his sleep its a feed - play - feed - sleep routine.
Thats what works for me. I'm sure that you'll find your own groove soon enough.
you poor thing - a screaming baby is pretty traumatic isn't it. Maybe for his big sleep at night you can start setting up a bedtime routine. Ours is a bath (but not always - sometimes I'm lazy LOL), then a cuddle and feed/comfort to sleep. We use a hammock so if Imran wakes up a little while I'm putting him to sleep its easy to just bounce him back to sleep again. Yasin is nearly 2 and we still follow pretty much the same routine except we've added a nudie run and reading a book to it. Some nights he'll go to sleep on his own and other nights he still likes to have company until he goes to sleep. I think that doing the same thing before bed every night helps them to understand what is happening and since its predicable its relaxing IYKWIM.
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