Help! What am I doing wrong????

[becky1969]

LO is 17.5 months old. We've been successfully transitioned to 1 nap since about 15 months old. His routine was :

8:00 wake
12:30/1-3, nap

bed 7:30/8

We even got rid of our NWs! It was bliss for about 6 weeks. However, now things are going wacky again! I'm not sure if it's because he's getting in his last eye tooth, or what (he's always been a horrible teether).  Now he rarely sleeps 2 hours for his nap. It's often only 1.5 hours, and today it was 30 minutes! We're also back to having NWs - usually he wakes about 8-9 hours after going to bed. The worst is when he wakes 10 hours later -because then we have no hope of him going back to sleep. Technically, I guess, those are EWs because they happen around 5:45. Sigh.

so, what are we doing wrong? He's usually extra sleepy while teething, but when I put him down earlier for nap he sleeps shorter, and earlier to bed just means he plays in his crib until his usual sleep time (5 hours of A time after waking from nap).

Help! I just started trying to exercise again, and he's totally sabotaging my efforts. I work while he sleeps, so I need to get up early to exercise. But, when he's up at 5:45, I have no hope! And, when he's awake from 4-5:30 (like last night), then there's no way I can drag my butt out of bed at 6:30. Today I decided to sacrifice precious work time during his nap to exercise, and that's when he woke after 30 minutes! There's no way my exercising woke him - I'm in a very different part of the house, and any noise I make is well masked by his white noise. Just very frustrated.

[Layla]

Becky, when he slept for 30mins today, did he wake & cry? HAve you tried wi/wo to extend the nap? If he's teething have you tried giving him meds for the pain?

[becky1969]

The 30 min nap he woke chatting. I left him in there for 45 minutes and he just wouldn't go back to sleep.  That's the problem with the short naps - he wakes chatting! Don't know what to do about that except leave him be, but he never goes back to sleep!

I do give meds for the pain at night before bed, and if he wakes in the night. We rarely do during the day unless he's a big bear and seems to be crying a lot for no reason (some tears from an 18 month old are to be expected, right? They get frustrated so easily!).

I put him to bed last night at 6:30, and he woke at 5:15 this morning (chatting, then crying)- so not quite 11 hours. I knew that wasn't enough. He's typically a 12-12.5 hour sleeper at night. Plus, he only had a 30 minute nap yesterday! So, I gave him some medicine, and 30 minutes later got him out of the crib and rocked him till he fell asleep.

I'm thinking it must be teeth. You can really see that last tooth thru the gum. He is just the WORST teether! If you still see a routine problem, let me know! I think it's teeth, but one never knows!

[becky1969]

It's definitely teething. He won't take a cat nap, and I can't get him to sleep earlier, so we're just stuck until he's done teething. He's back to taking 2-2.5 hour naps most days again, thank goodness. His NWs are limited to medicine and then back to sleep about 30 minutes later.  Poor bugger! At least we're on our last eye tooth! Then maybe a break until those 2 year molars? Pretty please?

I was realizing the other day that we've been teething for almost a year solid. I think in the last 13 months we've had a total of 10 weeks break. That's not enough!!!! 

[Layla]

Eye teeth suck! Give baby Owen lots of hugs & kisses.
 

[becky1969]

Thanks! And Amen!!!!!

Last night he was up from 10 pm to 1 am. I can't remember the last time that happened! He was miserable all day too, and had diarrhea as well. No temp. He gets the diarrhea at the peak of the teething. But I can't see the stupid tooth yet, so I'm worried this could go on for another 2 weeks!