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Offline Heather99

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Too much sleep at night? (If this is possible!)
« on: July 03, 2007, 08:11:53 am »
My 9 week old will sleep for 11-12 hours at night but will now only take 45 minute naps during the day. She is bottle fed as I had problems with my milk production after a blood transfusion.

Obviously I can live with this if I get a lovely undisturbed night's sleep!

If babies are supposed to have 15-18 hours sleep per day and she has four 45 minute naps in the day surely this is just about enough sleep?
I am being careful to keep activity low key at the moment as she does have trouble dropping off at night if she gets overtired.

Any ideas?
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Re: Too much sleep at night? (If this is possible!)
« Reply #1 on: July 03, 2007, 08:22:22 am »
enjoy your undisturbed nights.
if she is content after a 45 min nap then that is great.
My son is 5 months and still only has 45 min naps but has slept 12 hours a night since we started formula at 15 weeks. i use to spend ages trying to extend naps and in hindsight i was just getting myself stressed out.
He still only averages between 2 or three hours of napping a day but you cant beat a full nights sleep.
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Re: Too much sleep at night? (If this is possible!)
« Reply #2 on: July 03, 2007, 08:24:12 am »
Its great you are having nice long nights.
Sue it would be better to have longer naps during the day, however she is quite tiny yet and it may be coming.
What  her current routine?
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Re: Too much sleep at night? (If this is possible!)
« Reply #3 on: July 03, 2007, 10:05:52 am »
Routine looks more or less like this at the moment:

7am      E
7.30      A
8.00      S

 v low ley A when wakes after 45 min nap

10.00    E
10.30    A
11.00    S

ditto above

1.0       E
1.30     A
2.0       S     

 
ditto above
 
4.0        E
4.30      A
Usually another 30 min snooze in her bouncy chair then a little more A

 

6pm      E, followed by a little activity and a short snooze (10-15 mins or so)

6.30      bath, then a little more E then

7.00       S (takes about 30 mins - 1 hour to get her to sleep properly, keeps dropping off then waking again)

10pm    DF


the day varies a little, e.g. if she wakes at 6am our day starts then, if she wakes at 5am I put her back to bed then we start the day at about 7.45 instead.

She's been on a very flexible EASY since we got home from hospital at 4 days, and it seems to suit us both well. I don't get too stressed if she changes it a bit (e.g. first of all she wanted 4 hour easy with 3 hour naps, then 3.5 hour easy with 2 hour naps, but for the last week or so it's looked like the above)

I can't extend her activity times - just now I fed her, played a little then she yawned a couple of times. I put her in her crib and went downstairs to fetch something, when I came back she had fallen asleep. Unfortunately it's not always that simple......
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Re: Too much sleep at night? (If this is possible!)
« Reply #4 on: July 03, 2007, 17:08:41 pm »
Well from your routine I would add another 15 minutes to her first A time, seems she is not tired enough to take a long nap and 15-30 extra minutes could help with that.
And after that she is having 2.15 A times? I personally think that 2 hours A time may be a bit too much.Maybe hsoot for more 1.5 hours.
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Re: Too much sleep at night? (If this is possible!)
« Reply #5 on: July 08, 2007, 09:12:52 am »
Thanks, I'll give that a go and will report back once it's had time to kick in.
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Re: Too much sleep at night? (If this is possible!)
« Reply #6 on: July 13, 2007, 14:01:01 pm »
Update. It worked perfectly for one day but now we are back to 45 min naps but an even more tired baby because of the increase in activity. Am putting her down earlier for the later naps (going by yawn cues) but she's still completely cranky by about 11am and now refuses to be held so that I can feed her.

Will persevere, though - suppose I don't have a lot of choice.
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Re: Too much sleep at night? (If this is possible!)
« Reply #7 on: July 15, 2007, 18:16:43 pm »
How it is going?
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Re: Too much sleep at night? (If this is possible!)
« Reply #8 on: July 15, 2007, 19:03:18 pm »
Seems she is starting to be able to put herself back to sleep (by grizzling) but it doesn't work every time. Without wanting to tempt fate I think there may be a little improvement.....
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Re: Too much sleep at night? (If this is possible!)
« Reply #9 on: July 23, 2007, 08:20:51 am »
Update: have stopped worrying about it and we are doing EASASE if we need do. She and I are both much happier doing this and I figure she'll grown out of the 45 min nap thing eventually as it is a developmental thing.
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Re: Too much sleep at night? (If this is possible!)
« Reply #10 on: July 23, 2007, 08:37:30 am »
Its always better to go with flow and not to worry too much.
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