Hi again
Thank you so much for reply and your advice ! I have had some great improvement with the naps since your last post.. Hopefully this will gradually make night time better too
He is teething at the moment and it does seem to be that waking him up ... And making him unsettled.
I realise now that I wasn't seeing him far enough into the cycle transition ... I was doing it for 10 minutes and thought he wasn't tired.. But I really gave it go and took him through all the way .. For 20 to 30 minutes and it worked !!!! Yayyyy even had to wake him up !
And the second day the W2S worked for the first nap and kind of for the second nap.. Just had to jiggle his sleepyhead nest and it worked a treat !!!!!
Yes Sorry his bouncer is the babybjorn bouncer ..like a rocker I guess and it also bounces or rocks when he kicks his feet on it
so I always use that for naps wind down time. And when he is really difficult to put down at night ... But this has only happened a couple of times.
Here is my routine log :
28 Dec
Rough nite ... Teething
Woke at 12:00, 3:00 4:00
Took him to bed 4:30 until 6:45 ... Settled him 3 times by just jiggling him in bed next to me
Milk at 7:00
Tired at 8:15, slept until 8:45
Settled in my arms until 9:15 slept until 9:45
Milk at 10:00
Solids at 11:45
Sleep at 12:30 wake at 13:00 ... Settled in arms to 13:15 back in crib and slept until 14:00 had to wake him
As 14:00 to 18:00 was a long A time, and he had had a bad night ... He had. A nap at 16:00 until 16:30
Bedtime and milk 18:15
Sleep 18:45
Didn't dreamfeed him that night as it felt that we were waking him more, as he is teething he is more unsettled .. And we needed an early night
but he was Quite wakeful until midnight ... So fed him at midnight he went back until 5:30... Could have been a bit earlier .. But we didnt hear him .. He was chatting happily to himself so we left him in his crib until 5:45 when we heard him pooing
Did hear him few times from midnight until 5:30... But he settled by himself.
29 Dec
WU:5:30
E: 6:00 milk Porridge at 7:15
S: 8:00 ... Slept until 9:20 !!! Woke up happy and chatty so I left him there until 9:30...
E: 10:00 Milk Solids: 11:15 ( just tasting really)
Sleep: 12:25 -14:00!! Yayy
Put him in his bouncer to wind down around 12:15 ...yawned a few times so I picked him up and put him in cot .. Fussed a bit then I jiggled his sleepyhead to rock him and he fell asleep .. No crying ... nothing 😀
Started to stir a little around 12:55 in a light sleep. went in jiggled /rocked him a little in his sleepyhead...
Fell back to sleep again no fuss ! Woke up at 13:50!! Left him in his cot until 14:00
E: 14:00 Milk Solids at 16:45
S: 16:00- 16:30
BT: 18:15 and milk
Sleep at 18:50
Just until he manages to increase completely until 3 hours awake time and his waking up at 6:00 gets better .. Is it ok for him to catnap at 16:00-16:30. He gets quite crabby around 17:00 and without that catnap he will not be happy at all 😄 it's also a time that I take him for a walk and he always sleeps in the pram.
I will aim for bedtime to be around 18:30.
Will this extra catnap disturb his night sleep in anyway ? Or confuse his 1:30 naps ?
That means his naps would total 3 ,5 hours .
Also just wondering what I could do when there is something that is likely to disturb his routine .. Being out or he will start swimming soon .. This will be at 13:00 and out of the house at 12:30 ...
Thanks again for your advice and help ! I'm so pleased with the outcome. Obviously this is early days but I will stick to it
DS is quite an easy baby and does adapt quite easily to routines so I'm hoping that this will be the solution
xxx