EASY Routine - are we doing it right?

[brenda2]

hi
ok i think the bouncer is your problem.  what type is she (have you taken the quiz in your BW book?)?  touchy and spirited types have difficulty settling at the best of times so if this is her then she really needs a quiet, dark room with no stimuli.  my textbook baby always did better in a dark room too, and often when i was sleep training her i would have my hand over her eyes.

she really should be in her cot in a dark room for naps.  if she's in a chair that has lots of things to look at then there's 2 problems: she is too stimulated to wind down properly and get into a restful state to have a long nap and the bouncing action of the chair is becoming a prop that she may need to fall asleep rather than being able to self sooth.  also, i don't see how you could be shh patting her correctly if she is strapped into a chair.

here is the link for shh pat

https://babywhispererforums.com/index.php?topic=26672.0

when she woke up and was crying at 3 how long had she been sleeping for?

i'm not sure what you mean about waking her at 9 pm or 11 pm??  is this a dreamfeed question?

HTH

[Lyns Mck]

Hi my little boy is 6 wk old and i'm wondering if i can get him to go for a longer stretch after his 11pm dream feed. i had to stop cluster feeding as he wasn't taking all his dream feed and still can't get him to take much of it.
So he has df at 11 and then wakes around 1.30 or 2.30 for feed. the annoying thing is that from his 7pm feed he can last a long stretch, but not from df.
Do i just need to stick with it or should i start using dummy to put him off longer til at least 3 or 4am. He is taking 7oz and weighs 12lb14.
Also he has in the past gone til 4am but then slowly started waking earlier.
We are on 3hr easy routine during day. Thanks.

[brenda2]

Lyns - the df is not for every baby - some it actually makes wake more often.  have you tried without?  my other thought is move it to 10pm - you may be doing it too late and interfering with his deep sleep.

[Lyns Mck]

Thanks Brenda
i will try moving df to 10pm tonight and see what happens. i did try doing it without one night and he woke around same time 1.30am.
Will let you know.

[newbiemum22]

Hi Brenda

I've got the BW solves all your problems book but I can't find the quiz in it? It lists the types of babies although Elisha could fit in with lots of these. Do you know if the quiz is available online or could refer me to the page or different book?

I'll have another go at the shh pat.

When she woke at 3 she had slept for an hour. The morning naps are fine, it's just as it gets later in the day she doesn't nap so well.

Thanks
Marie

hi
ok i think the bouncer is your problem.  what type is she (have you taken the quiz in your BW book?)?  touchy and spirited types have difficulty settling at the best of times so if this is her then she really needs a quiet, dark room with no stimuli.  my textbook baby always did better in a dark room too, and often when i was sleep training her i would have my hand over her eyes.

she really should be in her cot in a dark room for naps.  if she's in a chair that has lots of things to look at then there's 2 problems: she is too stimulated to wind down properly and get into a restful state to have a long nap and the bouncing action of the chair is becoming a prop that she may need to fall asleep rather than being able to self sooth.  also, i don't see how you could be shh patting her correctly if she is strapped into a chair.

here is the link for shh pat

https://babywhispererforums.com/index.php?topic=26672.0

when she woke up and was crying at 3 how long had she been sleeping for?

i'm not sure what you mean about waking her at 9 pm or 11 pm??  is this a dreamfeed question?

HTH

[brenda2]

hi newbiemum
here is the link for the quiz and another link for you.  the quiz is in tracy's first book secrets of the BW, but if you have the 2nd book it is actually more explicit on many of her techniques.

https://babywhispererforums.com/index.php?topic=52283.0

https://babywhispererforums.com/index.php?topic=63275.0

an hour nap is good, it probably means she wasn't tired enough to take a longer nap.  try stretching her A time before it by 5-10 min.  my LO always does a longer A time in the middle of the day.  first and last A times are shorter.

[Suzyfoxnz]

Hi Lyns,

Just wanted to share with you that dh and I have tried to stick to BW with our son, Sam, but one night dh slept through his alarm to do the df and we found that Sam slept through to 1-2am and then until 7:30am, instead of being fed at 11pm and then 3am and then 7:30am.  So we have stopped the df and now only get up once a night. 

Also Marie I wanted to encourage you to be consistent about what you do when you are trying to extend your baby's naps.  We have had trouble with Sam's sleeping in the afternoon since he was 2 weeks old.  We found that wrapping him tightly and using a white noise cd on repeat helped.  However, he still often cries between 5-7pm and we just consistently use shh/pat.  Sometimes he doesn't sleep much in that period.  Sam is now 12 weeks and over time he has got a lot easier and has cried a lot less in the afternoons and evenings.

Hope this helps,

Suzanne