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ACTIVITY => E.A.S.Y. Forum => Topic started by: honeybasil on August 07, 2006, 15:43:17 pm
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I'm having terrible issues with my 10 week old. I think he gets extremely overtired extremely fast and that's why I have such a difficult time putting him to sleep. It's hard to keep track of when he's going to get overtired because I have a 5 year old and a 2 year old, so it's just tough to be right there looking at the clock all the time. He's currently awake A LOT in the afternoon/late afternoon. Usually, after 3-4 p.m. there's no more sleeping for him. I'm wondering if I should push his bedtime back from 8:30/9 to 7/7:30. I'm so hesitant to do a DF, though, because he's super difficult to get back to sleep after nighttime feedings. Last night, he finally slept in the bed with me from 11:30-1 when I attempted to move him to his carseat (where he sleeps), and then he was up from 2-3, then slept again until 6, ate and slept until 9 in his swing. It was terrible!! I am just wondering if he was just way overtired and that's why he had such a difficult time.
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I think it would be a great benefit to put your LO to bed for 7/7:30 and try and introduce a dreamfeed - it doesn't work for all LO but try it for a week or so,
You will probably find that his reluctance to go to sleep later is due to over tiredness, it is not so much a case of looking at a clock but looking at your LO to see when he goes from tired to overtired and acting before that happens.
Here is cluster anbd dreamfeed info for you https://babywhispererforums.com/index.php?topic=54662.0
Lauren