AAAHHH...30 minute catnaps all day and extremely OT

[KATE999]

Hi,
My DS is almost 16 weeks and he's sleeping like a dream at night. I put him to bed at 7:00pm and he sleeps until 7:30am with one feed around 4-5am. So I'm getting around 12.5 hrs of nighttime sleep out of him. Up until last week he was starting to sleep a longer nap in the mornings but this week he can't seem to stay asleep. I am for a 3 hour EASY schedule with feeds at 7,10,1,4,6:30 and 1.5 hours of A time but he often has a catnap and then wakes up and isn't settled so I feed him again early (around 2-2.5 hours). It seems to be the only way to calm him. I haven't been able to get him to go back to sleep after a short nap either. What do I do??? I'm going CRAZY and I'd like to enjoy the nighttimes that are working so well but it's hard when he's started being so cranky (and sometimes inconsolable) all day long. He used to be so happy when he was napping better and now all of a sudden he's no longer the baby I remember. He's sweet for the first 1.5 hrs in the morning when he wakes up from his nights sleep but then it's downhill from there. He just gets more and more OT and the cumulative effect is a monster. He wont even sleep in the stroller or the Bjorn anymore, which used to be a sure thing. PLEASE HELP!!

[KATE999]

I'll add my day today so far so you can see why I'm going crazy...

Last night went to bed at 6:45pm
Fed at 4am
Woke at 7:10am

E/A 7:15am-8:45am
S 8:50am-9:25am

E/A 9:30am-11:00am
S 11:00-11:10 (woke up, couldn't get him back down with rocking)
A
E 12:00pm (wouldn't eat much)
E 12:30pm (top up because fussy and I wondered if it was because of small last feed)
A until 1:40
S 1:40-2:00 (in baby Bjorn after 1/2 hr of walking, finally fell asleep)
E 3:00pm
A (no a time after feed because tired)
S 3:30-3:35, rocked and wouldn't go back to sleep
S 4:40-4:50

This is where we are now!!!!!

[Dree]

When my LO was your DS age and wouldn't eat or if she did 30 min naps it only meant one thing....TEETHING.

Does your LO have red cheeks and is drooling and stuffing things in his mouth? If so, you can use a homeopathic product for teething called Camilia. It helped her alot. If she was inconsolable then I would give her orajel. (I so hate that stuff but it worked everytime I gave it to her)

Good Luck
(( HUGS ))
Dree 

[KATE999]

He is drooling a lot but I know that happens at this age so I didn't know if it could be teething. He's had slightly red cheeks at times, but not all the time. How long did that pattern last for your LO? Did it go on for days or weeks?

[Dree]

Teething is such a long process and each baby handles it differently. Some of my friends have children who would get a new tooth and the parents had no idea their child was teething.

Just take it one day at a time...

Good Luck
Dree