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SLEEP => Naps => Topic started by: julia cottam on September 01, 2005, 20:03:32 pm

Title: over tired, how do you get back on track?
Post by: julia cottam on September 01, 2005, 20:03:32 pm

Some times I accidently miss my babies cue to have first morning nap about 9am, when i do he becomes over tired and he really fusses about going to sleep and then will sleep fretfully waking after 10 mins and then 30mins and will then wake cranky and not feed properly and then activity is useless as over tired, but won't go to sleep again, and then the day is ruined as he continues to not sleep and therefore feed properly so he spends day grumpy with hunger and tiredness.  When I catch him in time he's an angel baby and sleeps 3x for 1.5 hours and goes down at 7pm no probs. Is there any trick to save the rest of the day if this happens? How do I get him to take the nap? Ben is 7 weeks old.

Title: over tired, how do you get back on track?
Post by: Noelle on September 02, 2005, 03:06:42 am

Hello!  How are you getting him to sleep at the moment?  For the naps where is he waking up early, you could try to extend them using pat/ssh as well as using pat/sshh for the remaining naps.  There is tons of info on the naps forum that would probably help you - make sure to check out the stickys and announcements too  :D

Congrats on your little one!  :D

Title: over tired, how do you get back on track?
Post by: Mariek on September 07, 2005, 13:08:03 pm

Hi Julie

I'm going to move this over to the nap forum as I think its more of a nap issue than a bottle feeding issue.

love