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Offline sadiespetuna

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Did I mess up?
« on: January 04, 2007, 20:08:37 pm »
I have, or should I say had, an angel baby (7.5 months old) until I tried to implement EASY with him two days ago. He was the happiest little thing around and slept from 6 to about 4 or 5 am for a bottle and then went back to bed til 7 am. I thought he was just waking out of habit for his bottle so my husband and I have been trying to break him of his early morning bottle for the past two days. He also would take 2 naps a day, but they were at different times. My husband works from home so we don't have to do daycare so we were trying to get him on a nap routine.

He used to laugh and smile ALL the time. Now he cries. I tried putting him down for a nap today because he looked like he was getting sleepy, and his morning nap was short (20 min), and he SCREAMED for 45 minutes. I did pu/pd and all it did was make him mad. After 45 min, I took him from his room and went downstairs where he started playing and laughing again. But, then as he was playing on the floor he fell asleep.

So, maybe my baby doesn't really need a set nap schedule. What do you all think?
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Re: Did I mess up?
« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2007, 01:00:18 am »
I believe if it isn't broke don't fix it. If you are happy with the way things were and he was sleeping well for his naps and night time then leave it. EASY isn't a schedule it is a routine that is made to be flexible. Are you putting him down for the night the same time?
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Re: Did I mess up?
« Reply #2 on: January 05, 2007, 01:08:19 am »
Have you checked to make sure there is not teething or an ear infection causing the screaming?
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« Reply #3 on: January 06, 2007, 01:29:13 am »
We put him down at 6 each evening. He just cannot stay up past then. Since he's been 3 months he has felt like a couple of teeth coming in, but they still have scratched the surface. Both my husband and I didn't get our first tooth until we were at least a year.

Today we went back to what we were doing before we tried EASY. He woke at 5:15 am and was calm (like before) and then we fed him a bottle at 6 am. His morning was just like it used to be  - all giggles and smiles. And, then he took a 2 hour nap! The afternoon was a little rougher than it used to be (before the two days on EASY) but I think he will get back to being himself after another day or two of just being him.

I  just hope I didn't scare him for life by trying to change something that obviously was okay.
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Re: Did I mess up?
« Reply #4 on: January 06, 2007, 02:15:37 am »
**HUGS** i am sure you haven't.
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