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ACTIVITY => E.A.S.Y. Forum => Topic started by: Tru's Mommy on August 11, 2005, 18:05:56 pm
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Rowan is 4 mo. (3/29/05) and is a big boy. He was 13 lbs., 4 oz at 2 mo. and so I can only imagine how big he is now (drs. appt next week). I've noticed that he is not all that interested in nursing at the 3 hr mark. Or, he will nurse from one side only and just doesn't seem very hungry. I think he could go to a 4 hr. schedule now, but the 30 and 45 min. naps have kicked in, and I'm not sure how to manage those with a 4 hr. schedule. Here is what we are doing now...
:arrow: 7:45/8:00 a.m. Wake and nurse (isn't wolfing it down maybe because he was up a lot at night?)
:arrow: 9:00 a.m. Rice cereal
:arrow: 9:30 a.m. Nap (lately it's been 30 or 45 minutes)
:arrow: 11 a.m. Nurse
:arrow: 12 or 12:30 p.m. Nap (again, a short one)
:arrow: 2:00 p.m. Nurse
:arrow: 3 or 3:30 Nap (OCCASIONALLY get a nap over an hour)
:arrow: 5:00 p.m. Nurse
:arrow: Catnap
:arrow: 6:00 p.m. Rice cereal
:arrow: 7:00 p.m. bath/bedtime routine
:arrow: 7:30 Nurse and into bed
:arrow: 10:30 p.m. Dreamfeed (only takes one side--will not nurse the other)
:arrow: 1:00 a.m. Nurse
:arrow: 4:00 a.m. Nurse
:arrow: 7:45/8:00 a.m. up for the day
My thoughts...dreamfeed implemented a week ago is not helping. I think he's not getting or wanting enough to fill up him, so he's up 2 or 3 hours later. I did the dreamfeed with ds#1 and it made no impact on his sleeping. But he was a much better nightsleeper, so I canned it right away.
The feed when he wants the most is the 1 or 2 a.m. feed. He takes both sides. I'm hoping to get him to just nursing at bedtime, waking at 2 a.m. and then back down until morning. That is, he'd go 6 hrs. on either side of the nightfeed.
Back to my original question--is Rowan ready for 4 hrs during the day? I have been sticking to the 3 hr. feedings because it gives him a second wind if he's getting tired. The feeds fall in the middle of the 3 hr. cycle. Due to his short naps, he is having a hard time making it much longer than 1.5 hours of awake time. Then, if he stays up too long, he's overtired and takes a another short nap.
UGH! Help!
:D Tru's (and Rowan's) Mommy
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I was wondering if this was the same Tru's Mommy from a while ago! And lo and behold it is!! WElcome back and congrats on your newest bundle! I had no idea....:D
WEll, I'm thinking you may need to implement pat/shh to extend those naps. They are probably not enough. Does he take a paci? Have you tried anything to extend his naps. It seems as though once you've got the nap thing figured out, everything else might fall in to place. I think he is probably ready for a 4 hour schedule. Do you have the third BW book? It goes into detail as to how to implement that.
Welcome back!
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Yes, it's me! Thanks for the welcome! :lol: Once Tru hit a year or so, he was napping well and nights were good, so I was not a frequent poster anymore. Life just got very busy with a toddler and my computer time got less and less.
I have not read the third book, but it looks like I need to as my Angel/Textbook Baby is starting to throw me curve balls.
I posted on the General Sleep Board with a question about how to sleep train when you have less time to committ (a two year-old stuck to your heels) to being in the nursery. I'd love to be able to work on extending naps, but I'm trying to focus what time I have at the wind-down and pat/shushing at the beginning of his naps. If I can pre-occupy Tru at the 45 min. mark, then I'll get upstairs and work on extending. Even with giving Tru my undivided attention when he was a baby, I could not extend naps. Things just got better once he hit 6 or 7 mo.
Rowan sucks his thumb and likes to hold on to a lovey blanket, so the paci has been gone for about 3 weeks. I know he will be able to self-soothe into sleep before too long. It's just trying to be consitent with not as much time to devote to it.
Something is going on with Rowan in the past 2 weeks or so. Just need to get it figured out! I'm hoping I can ease him into a 4 hr. schedule and he'll get more satisfying feeds (and maybe longer naps, too).
Thanks!
Tru & Rowan's Mommy