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Title: 4 mo old still on a 2-3 mo schedule
Post by: Jo16 on June 30, 2016, 14:33:42 pm

I am totally in a spaghetti bowl of confusion! I don't know what to start fixing!! The E? The A? We need better S! Someone please help :(

So I'm coming to realize I've had my DD on the wrong schedule for a long time, and that's probably why she's napping 45 min every nap as well as waking in the night at midnight and 4/5ish.

Here's our current schedule

7 wake and feed
8 nap
I won't bother to put any more nap times because they are so chaotic.
Basically I have her on a 2.75 feeding schedule. Not even a 3 hr!!
Bedtime is 7p

How do I start working towards a better schedule??

Good thing is that she sleeps from bedtime to about midnight or 1am...that's a solid 6-7 hr! But then wakes at 5:30a.

Title: Re: 4 mo old still on a 2-3 mo schedule
Post by: Skadiver13 on June 30, 2016, 14:45:37 pm

You need to stretch your A times, they ar way too short for a 4 month old. GO to the EASY forum and look at some sample schedules there for a 4 month old. Typtically they are doing 2hrs. She's waking at 530 becuase she's probably in a UT/OT loop. 10.5hr night is also very normal if she's getting a lot of day sleep. Is she going back to sleep at 530 as you say her wake is 7am?

Title: Re: 4 mo old still on a 2-3 mo schedule
Post by: Jo16 on June 30, 2016, 15:25:26 pm

Yes she goes back to sleep, if I feed her, but she only eats for 5min so I know she's not HUNGRY. I think it's just a way to soothe back to sleep.

I understand I need to tweak things, but how suddenly and what do I tweak first? Also confused about A times...when do you start counting down the minutes to calculate A time?

Title: Re: 4 mo old still on a 2-3 mo schedule
Post by: Skadiver13 on June 30, 2016, 16:28:58 pm

That's a tough one, you could always do PU/PD for that waking at 530 BUT if she's UT it won't work. My suggestion is keeping up the prop of feeding back to sleep for now while working on her A times. I would stretch that first nap. Maybe 15min every few days depending on how much she can handle? Mine could handle longer tweaks so I went 30mins at a time but I don't know your lo. There is also a huge sleep regression right at 4 months so keep that in mind. But I would stretch her out to at least a 2hr awake time.

Here is the link to sample routines: chronological EASY samples, 4-6 months