When do routines and bad habits start?

Wow, that is one healthy little boy you have there! For us we had the night time routine down to a pat and it worked beautifully, we could put her down and she'd fall asleep on her own but like you said the daytime naps were a nightmare so after the 100th dead bum incident I switched to demand feeding and trying hard to get her to sleep on her own again and it did get better.

Except for today, she has been screaming (not the crying scream, the aaahhh, oooohhh type scream) in her cot now for 40min. Every new milestone comes with a setback!

Thank Maryke, yip I do sometimes hold him and watch some tv too. (and keep my phone on vibrate near by) Cause when it starts going into overtime I'll do anything to get that nap in! He changes sooo quickly and so far he pretty much sleeps through at night and I'm thinking I have the daytime naps to thank.
And as for being manipulated: He already weighs 7kg's at 3mnths, I would hate to think of having to bounce him when he is a year old!

Thank Maryke, yip I do sometimes hold him and watch some tv too. (and keep my phone on vibrate near by) Cause when it starts going into overtime I'll do anything to get that nap in! He changes sooo quickly and so far he pretty much sleeps through at night and I'm thinking I have the daytime naps to thank.
And as for being manipulated: He already weighs 7kg's at 3mnths, I would hate to think of having to bounce him when he is a year old!

Memo I remember those days too - it does pass I promise. What I did during those times was to sit with my LG. If she slept for an hour I sat with her in my arms in front of the tv till my bum went dead, but I stuck to the routine and it does pay off in the end.

After about a week I started putting her down again - not without a bit of a fight but since then I can put her down and leave.

For you it could be a growth spurt, if you are worried have his ears checked, but I'd say don't give up on it - they get better at manipulating the situasion as they grow older so stick to your guns.

Sorry but I have to disagree with some of the posts. I read the baby sense and sleep sense books, infact I read everything I could get my hands on.
My baby use to be put down after 45mn to an hour with some white noise and a dummy (no rocking and usually no feed before sleep/ I feed him when he wakes up). I was sure I wasnt gonna get into bad habits.
About a week or two ago he started to know that the white noise plus horizontal carrying position signals sleep, and boy does he SCREAM! until I turn him upright and eventually out of room...
Now what?
I cant believe it..

Jo - that is exactly what is happening! He feeds half his feed, then wakes earlier than he is supposed to in order to get the next half of his feed, but doesn't finish that 2nd half. Ag man!

Thanks for all the info ladies - at least now I know it's normal and I'm not going insane or doing something wrong.

I suppose I should just hang in there!

i read somewhere that the first growth spurt happens round about day 10-12 and lasts for 2-3 days and that one should just feed on demand then. Sorry, can't remember where I read it...