Nap time = battle

[lochiesmum]

My 15 week old son used to be really good at taking his naps, in the last few day however it has turned into a battle zone! I watch for his cues and as soon as I start the wind down, he starts crying and is really hard to stop. At first he objected being taken to his room / cot (previously all naps were taken in his cot) and so I tried letting him sleep in his chair in a quiet and darkened loungeroom, needless to say the naps were short and now he cries if I try that as well. I am peservering with naps in his room, but they are short and it takes a lot to calm him once he wakes. He is on 3.5 hour easy, we are in the second week of this after making the change from 3hours, is this just an adjustment period??? will it get better when he is more settled in his new routine???
He is always swaddled for naps / sleep, and this is the time when he cries the hardest, but I have tried leaving him unswaddled, aussie swaddled and partially swaddled and none of these have helped (shorter naps from flailing arms).
Am I missing  something here, please help as he is getting more and more overtired and I feel as though I am powerless to help him, I simply dont know how to get him back on the right track

[LilLady30]

I dont have any adivce, I just wanted to let you know that my DS is 15 weeks and we have been having the same problem for the last two weeks.  Maybe it is an age thing or developmental?  I look forward to reading the advice you get! 

Corey

[meldee]

my little guy is 15 1/2 weeks and we're going through the same stuff. I've been doing pat/shh and pu/pd for a wk and 1/2.  last night he SCREAMED for 2 hours. Woke up for the df and screamed for 1 1/2 hrs. this morning's nap was another nightmare. he was suppose to go down at 8.. it's now 10:20 and he just went down!!! something isn't right.... his feeds are impossible lately. i do not know what to do anymore. I'm getting to the point where i want to let him CIO, but it goes against every bone in my body! I've just spent the last hour sobbing. My dh and I are snapping at each other. I've been managing only 2 hrs or sleep over the past few nights. What am I doing to my poor son! I'm raising an insomniac! 

[meldee]

he naps for only 45 minutes, eat and activity are about 1h 20m long. i've tried everything to extend the nap.. w2s, double swaddle, pat/shh, pu/pd..... hold pressure pts for jolts....... he now begins to cry when i enter the room he sleeps in 
dh put him down at 1:05... 1:33 and already he is crying to get up......

[meldee]

so the red eyes yawning and eye rubbing aren't signs??? i watch his eyes, as soon as they start to glaze we start our routine. i'm not a clock watcher... i don't look at the clock and say--9:30 time for a nap.. i watch my son. i know at about 1 h 20 m he's reasdy to start the calming process. so when he's done with the routine and (now) screaming for 20 m (or longer) he's asleep

[meldee]

here's yesterday's schedule:
wake 7
nap 9:20
wake 10:15
nap 12
wake 2 (extended @12:48)
nap 4
wake 5
bath 6:00
bed 8:50 (began screaming at 6:50)



today:
wake 6:30
nap 8:05
wake 8:25
nap 10:10
wake 11:00
nap 1:05
wake 1:33 and still going.....

[meldee]

no, yesterday was a disaster! he screamed for 2 hours b4 we could get him down for bed. he awoke with the df and screamed 1 1/2 hrs. then he woke up every 40 min to an hour. i only managed 2 hrs of sleep between 12:45-1:45 & 6:30-7:30 this am when dh took him.

bytw.. little man is still up since 1:30 despite sh/pat

[lochiesmum]

after reading the other posts, I will try today to give ds more awake time, he normally has about 1 hour 15, but clearly that does not seem to be enough. I think we all get so worried about missing the sleep window, that we forget they need to be awake for long enough to need to sleep

[lochiesmum]

Well I must report some sucess. Today I kept my ds up for 2 hours (3.5 hour EASY) and everytime I was able to put him down in his cot still awake with only a minimum of fuss and asleep with little to no intervention in under 5 mins. We are still a bit all over the place as he wakes early and then has his first feed at 7, so is often tired before EASY would say to put him down for his nap, resulting in up to 1 hour of activity before his feed and 30 mins after, but we are slowly making progress. Thanks for all advice, once we have this sorted out we will work on extending the naps, but for now (today at least) I am grateful for a less stressful day

[meldee]

We are working on longer awake times and so far it is going ok.... i don't want to jinx myself since it is still early in our day. i've always read that naps will impact night sleeping??? I'm still having difficulty just getting him down. He still needs to cry and be picked up several times with pat/sh b4 going to sleep. I've laid him in the crib sleepy but he always manages to let 30 min pass with so much as a wink of sleep. By that point he is whinning for me to come in. I wait until a cry and then begin pat/sh and pu/pd. Will he ever just drift off to sleep on his own? I'm eagerly awaiting the light at the end of the tunnel!
Thanks for your help. I was a bit snippy yesterday from frustration and lack of sleep.