Hi everyone, i have posted on here previously and have found it invaluable, especially when my confidence is down :-(. I have been following EASY since day 1 and was working really well. She was napping for two hours and sleeping really well at night, even slept for 8 hours at night! But the last week or so she is becoming a nightmare with napping. The only thing that has changed is that our routine had been upset a little as we were out alot last week.
When it comes to napping they were gradually getting shorter and now she is really hard to settle at all. She has now settled after a ling stint of shhh/pat but I can't keep doing this as by the time I finished it's nearly time for her to wAke again. I sm wondering if she I'd overstimulated, I have been keeping her up for longer and wondering if it'd for too long at about an hour and 20 mins?
Now that we have got into the short nap habit she wakes after an hour then by the time she is due for a feed she has been up for too long and the vicous cycle of OT begins so we are all out of whack with EASY. So my questions are: if she wakes early do I leave her in her cot until it's time to feed and if I do, do I try and settle? When she does have playtime once she is done I take her down to her room and settle then put her to bed but then wakes not long after. She also sleeps in her own cot in her own room. Our day at the moment goes like this:
E 8am
A 9am
S try to get her to sleep at 9.30 but struggle until next feed
E 12.30
A 1
S again struggle from 1.15 to get to sleep
E 4pm
A 4.30
S 5
E 6pm
S goes to sleep straight away as she doesn't really wake for this short feed
E 9pm
A bath and then bed where she can sleep anywhere to 3 or 5
last night for the first time in a ling time she woke twice, once at 1 and again at 5 and I date say it was because she was so unsettled during the day crying.
Any help or suggestions are appreciated, I am losing my confidence fast and becoming paranoid each time I put her down :-(
Hi ya
When i read your post its very similar to my DD whose 9 weeks also.
she use to have such large naps in the day she would nap 2 x 2 hr ones and then have a 1 hr one in the afternoon and it was going so well.
BUT as soon as she turned 8 wks which is when the cat napping starts her first am nap has gone down to 45 minutes most of the time and her next one can be just over a h,r then by the afternoon EASY is all over the shop she ends up OT and at 6.30 pm which is her bedtime weve found she can scream for up to 45 mins before she goes to sleep. any other time she settles really well without a prop etc, we just swaddle her and just lay her in her cot, she may whinge a little but thats it, i made sure from about 4 weeks she could self settle.
iv tried putting her for her nap at 1 hr then 1 + 15 mins then 1hr + 30 then (as she was wide awake and no yawning etc) and she settled quickly, and she still woke up at 45 mins.
iv read that 45 min cat naps can be either OT or UT so im confused big time! iv also read that over stimulation can cause cat napping so i make sure shes chilled before bed.
im just wondering as time goes by do the naps sort themselves out cause no matter what i do they are the same.
nenee
