My 6month old LO used to nap for a couple of hours twice a day, fed on 4hour EASY and was super happy all the time. I have always struggled to establish when he gets tired as he never yawns or runs his eyes. Instead he get super excited, blows insane raspberries and has a high pitch squeal. Sometimes he will rub his head or scratch his chest... but catching him before he gets overtired is a real challenge.
Recently, coinciding with teething, his naps have shortened. Sometimes its 30mins, sometimes 45, but sometimes I can get him randonly to sleep for 1hr 30. Shh Pat drieves him nuts and makes him cry more, so we hold his bouncing legs down and put a hand on his chest to try and get him back to sleep. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
Then this week he has started waking earlier and earlier.. (used to be 7am) and the past two mornings have been 5am and 530. Yesterday I put him to bed at 5.30pm as he was completely knackered... but woke 12hours later!!!!
Am at a real loss as to what to do. We don't even have a routine to post because it depends on his naps and with these short ones he feeds just before he goes to sleep. Yesterday looked like this:
5am wake
5.45 Up and feed after trying to get him back to sleep
7am Sleep
8.30am wake
10am Feed
10.30am Sleep
12noon wake
1.30 Feed
2pm Sleep
3.30 Wake
5pm Bath and feed
5.30 BED
Could really do with some help here as have totally lost any perspective as I am barely sleeping... Normally we are on a textbook 4 hour easy with 2 x 2hr naps and 30min CN.
Thanks Kim