My lo will be 8 wks this weekend; is breastfed; and usually sleeps pretty well at night....goes down easily usu. between 8-9 pm and sleeps soundly - have just started trying the dreamfeed around 10:30/11; then usually sleeps til 3 AM; then wakes around 5-6 for another feed, then back to sleep for a few hours.
My problem is that during the day her naps get worse and worse, til by the evening I feel like all I've done is try to get her to sleep. She starts off w/a good morning nap....so good that I started thinking this was the cause of her afternoon/eve. troubles, so I've started shortening it. But the remainder of her naps become a constant struggle. She goes to sleep on her own without trouble, she is usually swaddled, but wakes sometimes after 10-15 minutes. From there we start pat/shh-ing, which works, but then she wakes again 15-20 minutes later! I've tried letting her sort it out - but she ends up getting unswaddled, flailing around, screaming. She settles w/a quick pick-up, but then can't seem to get back to sleep.
She also has been eating every 2 hours or so, when she had been going every 3. I don't know where to start = her naps, her feeding sched., her bedtime, her waketime!?!? I'm so confused.
Here's what her sched. looked like yesterday - it has been wacky for about a week now.....
0900 - I Woke her after sleeping for about 3 h from 6 AM feed
0910 - Eat
1000 - Sleep - slept for about an hour, but had to go in about 3 times to resettle
1115 - Wake
1130 - Eat
1230 - Sleep
1300 - Woke up screaming mad/seemingly hungry after trying to settle for about 15 min.
1315 - Eat
1340 - Sleep attempt again
1415 - no sleep, put her in Bjorn and went for walk - she slept for about 45 minutes, woke after I tried putting her in crib when we returned
1515 - Eat
1620 - Sleep attempt again - lasted for an hour, with sleeping for 5-10 min., waking cyring, trying pat/shh, etc etc, waking/crying
1750 - Eat
1950 - Eat
2100 - Sleep for night
(after all the feedings, we do have awake time - so she's not nursed to sleep)
All evening hours she's mostly awake - looking really bleary eyed, yawning, but alternatingly fussy w/gas/trying to poop. I feel like she's waking w/gas pains, but then gets aroused enough that she thinks she's hungry.....she seems to be constantly rooting/sucking ferociously on her hands/etc. so that we end up nursing every 2 hours or so!
This morning she nursed around 5:30 AM, and then woke about 7:30 AM, which is what I'd rather she do, so that her first morning nap starts around 8:30....how do I keep this constant?
OK - sorry for such a long, rambling post, where after all it seems I have several problems, not just one
Any advice would be most appreciated!!
