Morning ladies,
My little man is almost 7weeks old now, we've been on the 3hr EASY for a couple of weeks and have made it through the 6week growth spurt (I think!) I know he's very young to be implementing a routine but I've been concentrating more on his cues whilst roughly looking at times for A and S etc. Just recently naps have gone out of the window. He used to be easy to settle for his first nap of the day and then a nightmare for the rest, but now he's terrible to settle for all naps. It turns into a meltdown and he either crashes out of sheer exhaustion or we skip the nap, feed again and then attempt to settle. I'm not sure if the growth spurt has thrown us off or if its something else. Please tell me that this will pass? He's very good over night, with a bedtime of around 7.30pm then wakenings for feeds at around 12.30/1am and 4/5am then up for the day any time between 6.30-8am. But on the days where he's really fighting the naps it does effect our bedtimes. Our nap routine is low key wind down (usually I lie him on his back on my bed while I close the curtains, and then we'll have a little chat/cuddle) then into cot, he uses a dummy if he's unsettled and chewing on his hands. But then he gets rage. Won't let me try shh/pat - it seems to wind him up more! And even with some APOP (rocking etc) he gets angry, pushing me away etc. He's got a real temper for such a young 'un! He doesn't have an issue settling for bedtime so I can't work out why he fights naps so much. He has an A time of just over an hour usually, and if we have a melt down at nap time and he only sleeps for 30mins then the next A time usually just consists of feeding and nappy change, but still he will fight it sometimes! The evening cat nap is the worst. He is fed and then I like to try to get him to sleep after some A before his bath and bedtime routine, but we hardly ever get him down and he ends up having a quick bath and straight to bed - my H always comes home to complete chaos and him kicking off. Is this common around this age? I seem to spend all day trying to get him to nap, and I'd love to be able to get out to some groups and start enjoying being a mum!
