HI Stacy,
here is my routine. He wakes at 5am and sucks his thumb or what ever else he is doing (he is swaddled with one hand out since he wants to suck so badly since he was 10 weeks old). Usually doesn't really call for me until 5:30 or even 5:50am.
E:5:30/5:50
E:7/7:15
A: watching me cook/make my breakfast, some playtime singing, books,etc. lots of fun, he is all smiles, when he gets restless, I move to his room and lay him onmy legs and we sing for another 10 min, I massage his forhead/face, he gets swaddled and we stand, patting his back, I lay him down at 8:30/8/45 and he is asleep within 2 min.
S:830/845 (last two days I had to wake him at
E: 10/10:15 (oh yeah, he is a fast nurser only eats for 5-10min, and he gets enough, he usually isn't even hungry at the 3hour mark)
A: playgym for 10min, on blanket by window with a teddy bear, I read to him, we play and laugh
S:11:20/11:35 up after 45min. I watch one nap, his arm that is out moves, his legs move up and down a lot, his head turns left, right, left, right,.... he than opens his eyes, sucks his thumb and is up, most of the time he is happy, if I didn't walk in or so I can here him suck on and off, and he never really fusses. I have left him in the crib awake until his next feed sometimes since he didn't cry. Rarely does unless he is overtired. I have seen you post w2s and that you should have a really dark room and if they see you game's over. His room is a loft, ie. has one open wall overlooking the family room, so there is NO WAY for me to have it pitch black.
E: 1pm
A: depending on whether I got him back to sleep or not: walk/trip to the mailbox/laying on blanket with activity cube or rattles, watching me make my sandwich.....
S: 2/2:30pm I follow his sleep cues at that point, depending how long he has been awake it's between 2hours and 1hr and 20 min.
wakes after 45min. Still happy if I walk in, never wakes crying, will not stay in crib until 4pm, will get fussy NO crying though after about 20/30min. I have held him through another 45min nap before because if he doesn't get any sleep at this point, the evening hours will be very challenging. He will not tolerate shush/pat. He goes to sleep independently and it revs him up so much, that I can forget about him going back to sleep. AND I TRIED !!!!!!!!!!! for days and days
E: 4pm
A: low key until 5:30
S: 5:30-6:15pm sometimes he needs a pacifier since he is overtired and can't find his thumb that easily with those flailing hands that they still have at 11/12 weeks :-)
A: sit in swing sometimes turned on sometimes not to watch me/or my husband and me if he is home from work yet eat dinner.
bath at 6:50pm and massage in bathroom.
E:7:10/7:15pm used to be until almost 8pm, since my breast were the only thing he had for suckling, that way he ate a LOTand lasted long stretches at night from early on. Now that he has found his thumb, he isn't all that interested in suckling on my breasts anymore and therefore is waking a little earlier at night, still a 6-hour stretch though. I tried DF, just wasn't for us. He drank so little and only extended his sleep for another hour and I stayed up 3 more, didn't give me the rest I needed. Also I do think that you are tampering with their sleep cycles if you do that, but that's just my personal oppinion.
E: 1am/2am
E: 5:15am/6am..
E:7/7:15am
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I just don't know where to even start with w2s since he moves all of his body parts and he will see me if I stand there.
