What happened to the little routine we had?

[myajazmum]

Hi.

My DS had his 2mo immun jab on Mon, and 4 days later, what little routine we had is now gone how many days will it usually take before it gets back to normal? And when I say normal, I mean, the normal that we had  for 1 week.

DS is nearly 10 weeks old. he had a growth spurt at 8weeks and was cranky for the whole week, then after that we seem to find some sort of routine, with starts at 8am and feeding every 3 hours on average during the day and 4-5 at night with DFs.

After his jabs on monday, he was , as we expected, cranky and grizzly and sleepy so I let him sleep if he needed to, however he started waking up for 3 hrly feeds at night so I tried to shorten his nap on Wed. He started his day early at 7am on Thu (Yesterday) and it was ok, till about the lunchtime nap. usually he naps for 45 mins, and I can usually re settle him to go back to sleep for another 30-45min. But it was a on/off sleep till 2.30pm. he then crashed at 4 and I woke him up at 6pm.

I guess my question is, do I let him fall back into his routine on his own? I think if I try and manipulate it, he will be worse.. I am going to be stayiing at home today to see what today will bring.

[huntersmummyinoz]

my lo was out of sorts for a couple of days after his shots and needed to be gently pushed back onto EASY.  i started with maintaining the 3 hour routine for the first cycle of the day and then if his naps were longer i let him sleep but never longer than 2 hours at once and woke him where necessary.  then once the first was down pat, maintained the second cycle and so on.  i kept feeds to 3 hourly during day even if sleep times are out of usual easy order.

some LOs are fine with their shots, others like mine definately not.  only just recovering from 4 mth ones and not looking forward to 6 months.

hope this helps

[myajazmum]

Hi

Yeh I have tried gently to push DS back. but it's been a tough day. his feeds are slowly coming back in line today, but they are at the end of his awake time or in the middle and he's been very unsettled today, feeding every 3 hours on avg but snacking in between. like you i woke him up after 2 hours sleep in the arvo session and all day he's been awake for like 1.5 to 2 hr stretches - which is v rare for him - usually he struggles to make it to 1hr 10min.

he finally fell asleep at 8.15pm after trying since 7pm. and only another feed seemed to settle him down, burped him and then spent what seemed like hours shh'ing and patting him.

will see what happens overnight.