Last night I was able to get Lyle to sleep in the car for a catnap. He had been up since 2:45 when I came home he was screaming at the top of his lungs. So I told DH let's try the car. And it worked almost immediately. So he slept until 6. Now, when he does take a catnap I've learned that I can't turn around and put him to bed to early. Like the examples in the BW books. So I put him down a little before 8. And he slept in this morning. No 5:20 chatter, 5:40 Crying. He coughed a few times in the 6:00 hour but he didn't wake until a little before 7:30. So I thought, great, he won't be tired this morning, we'll start on the right foot. Which hasn't happened in awhile.
E 7:35 Was already rubbing his eyes a little after 8 (while still eating) but I let him play a little bit (practice rolling)
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S 9:32 He started crying all of a sudden when I was walking around with him so I decided oh no, I better put him down. This was at 8:45. Only 1h10m of awake time
This was probably still too early? He fought a lot. and didn't fall asleep until 9:32. I had to stay the whole time. His eyes kept popping open and jolting. I left at the 45 min mark and he woke at 1h10m. He woke in a weird mood. And was very hard to read. He usally wakes up happy.
A 10:42
E 11:05
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S 12:33 Again I guess I tried to put him down to early. And decided today to stop swaddling him. He was very unhappy about the swaddle, and somebody suggested that this might be a problem. He calmed down right after I took him out. But even after being cranky and 2 hours of awake time, by the time he fell asleep he woke at the 45 min mark. This time he was cranky the whole A time.
A 1:15
E 1:50 Rubbed his eyes again while eating. About 2:20. And cranky. So I put him down as soon as he was done eating. Only cried for a little while. Yawned at 2:30 then two more yawns right in a row at 2:39. Then stared off into space for a long while.
S 2:45-3:35 (woke 50 min later)
A 3:35 went for a walk in the stroller.
E 5:00 - went for a car ride when done at 5:30 (on 2 hours of A time at this point, and he would not fall asleep in the car - it's like he will only fall asleep in the car if he is really tired. I think he's really getting use to these long afternoons)
A 6: rolling around on the carpet
E 6:38 Top off, then to bed. Only cried a little bit. Asleep within 10 min of putting down. (thankfully no meltdown tonight) Very likely that he will wake at 10:10 for DF and then at 5:20am and babble to himself for awhile, then cry at 5:40. Then I will do my best to get him back to sleep.
Sorry if I was annoying. I just really need help. Do you guys think I should have just kept him up for say 1h40m this morning and then hopefully it would take him about 20m to go down. So then he would have 2h of awake time? This is what I can't seem to get right.
I've been getting so many short naps 30-36m that I'm afraid of him being overtired. But then he's UT.