Ever since I went back to work, my son, doesn't sleep through the night anymore, we used to put him down at like 1 am, and he would sleep till like 9am, wake up, and than so on, but since i went back to work about 2 months ago, he doesn't do that anymore.
I work the graveyard shift, which is generally from 10pm to 6am, 5 days a week, my husband works during the day, he's usually home between 6 and 9:30pm, 5 days a week, we are both work full time, and i work nights, husband works during the day, we can't afford a babysitter, so this is the only way we can work and have someone take care of our son at the same time.
a rough routine of my son's day:
i get home at 6 am, he's usually sleeping at this point, but my husband on the other hand usually is messaging me all night long, due to the fact that our son is keeping him up at night and making it really difficult on my husband to get any sleep.
so i come home at about 6 am, i relax for a couple hours and see my husband out the door, for 9 am. than i head to bed.
lately, i have noticed that i will wake up at like 2:30- 3 pm, in the afternoon, and usually my son is too.
so we get up, it's now 3 ish.
-I change his diaper, -put up the baby gates, -place him on the living room floor, so i can go to the kitchen and make him a bottle of homogenized milk, - i turn on the television, and turn it to the aquarium ambiance channel, which has been one of his favorites since he was really little, he likes the music and the fish, this program runs for about an hour. so he'll sit there, drink his bottle, and watch his fish, while interacting with the cat's and playing with some of his toys.
-I feed him breakfast, usually he eats a full jar of baby food, or an entire pouch of the travel poches, or an apple snack, so he get's that, and then usually a second bottle by this time.
-depending on the day, i usually run errands, like we will go for a walk to the grocery store, or to shoppers, or to the bank, or there's usually something that needs to be done or grabbed in a day, so we go for a walk which generally takes up about an hour.
-we will come home from the walk, and he'll play with his toy's ans amuse himself, for a bit, while i try and clean the apartment, and go about thing's that need to get done.
-by around 7:30-8pm he will start yawing, and rubbing his eyes, and getting all snuggly like he wants to sleep.
- i change his diaper, turn on his space heater, his room gets cold this time a year, and trust me no one likes a baby to wake up in the middle of the night frozen, he is absolutely miserable when that happens, anyway. i sometimes either put him into a sleeper, most of the time just a diaper though, i lay him down, give him a warm bottle of milk. turn on his projecotr, give him a couple toys, tell him i love him, and close the door.
most of the time, he will play, amuse, fuss or cry for about an hour or two before he actually falls asleep. unless he's really tired, and falls asleep right away, again it depends on his mood
So i put him down for a nap, generally i try and nap as well, for this is really the only time i get to sleep, so i turn everything off, lights, tv, all of it and lay down on the couch.
he usually naps for about 3-4 hours. depending.
he only has been having the one nap a day, for quite some time now.
so my husband usually comes home at around 5:30 pm somtimes 9pm, depending on the day, the day's he's home at 5:30. depending on when our son went down for his nap, my husband will come home and greet us, unless ash is still sleeping.
but my husband get's home we usually have dinner, and relax a little, sometimes ash is awake sometime's he's not. there are nights when i leave for work at 9pm, and he is still sleeping, so he won't even see me leave, hear me leave, or anything, untill he wakes up in the night to find my husband home, i am no where to be found and usually keeps my husband up all night.
on the nights where he is awake for when i leave, he doesn't seem to be as moody, but my husband will txt me while i work and i will get up to 10 a night, just on the fact that he's still awake, we sometimes give him a bath, we try taking the toys out of the crib, we've tried warm milk instead of cold, we've tried turning his heater off..... we've tried leaving the tv on, so he can hear the tv through the wall, we've tried turning everything off and having nothing on at all, silence, we've tried i think everything and my husband lately has been putting him in his crib at like 11-12, and just leaving him in there, if he cries, than he generally checks on him and makes sure he's alright, than changes his diaper if needed, and gives him a fresh bottle and leaves him in his crib.
i am at my wit's end, i am not sure what else to do, is there something i can do during the day to help him know the differance from night/day, early/ late. or to make him more tired or what, i am open to suggestions.
