Please help. My LO is 4.5 months and on a 3.5 hr EASY with hope to move to 4 hr soon. His naps have been getting shorter and are now only 30 mins on a bad day to 1hr on a good day. He is bathed at 6.30pm and fed at 7.00 - put into cot to sleep with no rocking etc but with paci and blanket which he often uses to cover his eyes!! room is very dark with only small amount of light from top of curtain. LO also likes to have his ocean wave sounds on to sleep which goes off after approx 15 mins.
LO is bottle fed but is now starting solids as is over 18lbs, he drinks 7 or 8 oz when not eating food and 4 or 5 oz with solid food. He also sometimes has another 4 or 5 oz at night.
He was sleeping well made it through the night with only occasional night feeds by 3 mths. This stopped approx 1 mth ago during so called English "heatwave" - it got too hot for him to sleep in his room so i put in him travel cot and slept downstairs with him, he would sleep with a fan on and i wonder if he now misses the noise - we have also recently moved him into own room so he can't even hear is breathing in the night.
When he wakes he generally wants to have his paci and will not sleep without it - even when i try to take it out after a short period of relaxing. sometimes he will need to have head stroked, hand held to go back to sleep and generally better if ocean sounds put on for him to concentrate on. When he was in our room i would try to soothe him to sleep before he cried too loudly as did not want to wake daddy up but feel that this has caused another problem as he may have become dummy dependent. Sometimes will settle in a few minutes, sometimes can take 30-45 mins!
I think Lucas is cross cutting his teeth as it looks like right eye teeth ready to come out very soon and this could be causing him a lot of pain - very grumpy during the day, drools, chews, nappy rash, red cheek etc.
Tends to wake early each day for bottle but if he has had a night feed he will only take 3 or 4 oz
Routine looks like this - with a lot of variation with naps!!!
somewhere between 5.30 & 6.30 - wake & milk feed 7oz
7.00 - sleep
8.30- wake
9.30 - 5oz milk feed & cereal
10.30 - nap
11.30 - wakes - should be sleeping until 12.00 but can't seem to get there very often
12.30 - 5oz bottle & solids
1..30 -2.00 - nap
2.30 - 3.00 wakes - should be sleeping from 2.00 - 3.30 but never makes it
4.00 - 5oz bottle + solids
4.15 - 4.30 catnap
6.15 - 6.30 bath
7.00 bottle & bed
know he is overtired but if i put him down early he wakes even earlier eg today napped from 10am to 10.45 - now don't know whether to feed him at 12.30 or move back to 12.00 and settle for early nap
very confused - please help
