Hello,
My DS is 8 weeks old, is bottle fed and is a spirited baby, with touchy tendencies.
We recently stopped using a pacifier at naptime/bedtime, but now once he's down for the night, he wakes every 20mins to 45mins and seems to have a mantra cry. His cries tends to get quite loud and anxious, but I've interpreted it as a mantra cry since the intensity goes up and down, and he seems to settles himself within 5 to 15mins and they are A LOT less intense than his normal cries. (I'm not sure if those are good assumption for defining a mantra cry?!?!). BUT he starts crying again soon afterwards.
Eventually, normally about the 5th or 6th time, it seems to take longer for him to settle and although it still sounds mantra-y, I begin to get worried that he'll get to the point of no return (in which case he'll never get back to sleep) and I go in to do a pu/pd (I've tried shhhs and pats and it doesn't seem to work with him). By this time it's about 9:30pm/10pm, he has a DF at 11pm and he'll sleep until 2am/3am NF.
{{{ FYI We decided to try to stop using his pacifier at naptime/bedtime (even though he really, really liked it) for 2 reasons:
-He's often burpy, so he was having a hard time keeping it in (even for 5-7mins), but then would get very, very upset when it popped out.
-He was having a hard time resettling himself at the 45min mark during his naps, since he was looking for his soother
I was very excited a few days ago, with the help of BW tips, to have him fall asleep, in his crib without his soother YAY! (something NEVER achieved with his older sister!). And as a results his naps have been going much more smoothly.}}}
Here's my question, should I just continue to let him settle himself, or should I intervene? Is it normal to have a mantra cry, 5-6 times in a 2 hour period after bedtime or could it be something else?
We're still working on his EASY (He keeps waking up at 5am) but looks something like this
E 6:00/6:30
A
S 8:30-10 (1.5)
E 10
A
S 11:30-1:30 (2)
E 1:30
A
S 3-4 (1hr)
E 4
A
S 5:30-6 (30mins)
E 6
A Bath
S 7:30pm
Several NWs
DF 11pm
NF 3am
Thanks so much!!
Jodi
