Hi Sarah
If I get the first nap right, we then start the day on such a better foot! If that one goes wrong...rubbish day lies ahead!
He gets soooooo grouchy, fussy, grumpy etc at around 1hr. Thrashes about. Legs going up and down. He's a bit of a nightmare to be honest. If we are out in the buggy, goes mental if I stop moving, same in the car. If I put the music on his bouncy chair on really loud, that keeps him content for another few mins!
Feeds wise, they are rubbish during the day. 2-3oz at best each feed. Evening, df and nf are all around 5-6oz though.
Wondering if I will even notice the 12wk growth spurt!
HTTJ wise, he is swaddled so would this still work? Can't do it yet as the door scrapes along the carpet so it wakes him every time you go in!!! Must get that sorted!
Today, we did 1hr 20 for his first A. Slept for just over 2hrs.
1hr 30 for 2nd A - slept for 1hr 50.
1hr 20 for 3rd A - slept for 1hr - extended it easily with white noise for another 35 mins when I woke him.
I always try to extend the naps - sometimes it works, sometimes not. He always seems tired. Once he's stopped crying, he will always yawn! I use white noise to extend them plus sometimes put a firm hand on his chest or cover the basket with a muslin so he has no stimulation (although wont be able to do this much longer as he will need to come out his moses basket soon!
Nights are really good - he goes down by about 7/7.30 - sometimes needs resettling but usually the culprit is wind! Then we df him at 10ish - goes straight back to sleep. Wakes around 2/3am and again, straight back to sleep. Each feed takes about 20mins.
He was going a lot longer stretches at night - like 5-6hrs sometimes as much as 8 hrs. But that was when A) he fed alot more in the day and B) was up screaming (evening colic!) from 4/5pm til 8/9pm - sometimes later. It is a shame we are down to less nighttime hours in his stretch but never mind.
Sometimes he wakes twice in the night - say 2am then 5am. But the last three nights he's not which has been good. He will go from 2am til 7.30am. But he doesn't seem starving when he wakes - but DD was like that too.
So I am really none the wiser. I wouldn't mind trying to extend his A time if he was a bit of a happier chappy. Grumpy babies are so hard to read and soooooooo hard work! Not great when you have a toddler around. And I refuse to continually hold him - I have a friend who held her baby constantly and he was a nightmare as he got older - so clingy. There is a time for cuddles of course but I want him to be able to sit in his seat, tummy time, on his play mat etc. Plus I have a 2.5yo to attend to as well! But I am my own worst enemy I know - I love routine, and am obsessive about getting independent sleep!
