Connor is so hard to get to sleep at night

Connor's sleeping habits keep changing so everything I try with him stops working.

Well, for now I can't seem to get him "to really" sleep until 1:00am and then he gets up 3-4 hours later to eat and then he'll sleep 3-4 hours again. And before I can get him to really sleep I'll try putting him to bed around 10:30pm and until 1am he'll fall asleep and wake up and cry every 10 minutes and pass gas sometimes, but he'll want to eat a lot during that time as well. I just can't figure it out.

When I first started trying to get him to sleep using the method from the Baby Whisperer book I would put him down around 10:00-10:30pm and let him sleep for about 1.5 hours and give him his dream feed at 11:30-12:00 and then he would sleep for 4-5 hours get up to eat and then go back to sleep. I can't seem to get him back on that routine?

Any suggestions? Thanks!

Re: Connor is so hard to get to sleep at night

Re: Connor is so hard to get to sleep at night

Do you have a bedtime routine? This really helped with DD. Our routine is bath, bottle, swaddle than bed. She sleeps great at night. It look a little while before she got used to it, but now she goes right down. Also, do you do anything to differentiate day from night? DD has a huge problem with this so I changed my routine around and started changing her diaper after she eats so she is awake for playtime before she goes back down for a nap. At night (even when she gets up to feed) we don't turn the lights on and don't talk. I just feed and then put her right back down. This has worked for us since she was 3 weeks.

Hope that helps.

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Message edited 2/9/2007 5:25:12 PM.

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Message edited 2/9/2007 5:25:39 PM.