Sigh. Finally we have some naps and I should be happy, why is it that I am still so stressed and upset?
Here is what our days were like until the middle of this week:
wake around 6/615ish
E 620 (bottle)
A
S 745ish - asleep for 2 to 2.5 hours here.
E 1015ish (bottle)
E 1100ish (solids, just started, taking about an ounce of fruit or veg)
A very short, mostly winddown
S sometime around 1130 or 1200 depending on when woke from first nap, doing 2 hours A time here. this nap is 1.5 to 2.0 hours
E 200ish
A
S 330 to 400ish goes down for a catnap of 30 - 45 minutes
quiet awake time until bath - usually sits in chair and watches us eat dinner
515 bath
E 545
sits quietly until tired and then up for bed, usually around 615ish, asleep by 630.
E dream feed (he usually end sup waking during it) 930ish
Lots of AP and we lost our independent sleep with the Christmas ILs Fiasco of 08 and the New Year Nightmare of 09 and I have not been able to get him back to what he used to do - I used to put DS in his cot, he would turn his head 3 or 4 times, wiggle, and then close his eyes. It was bliss. Now I rock, cuddle, bounce, swing, dance, jump, hum, sing and put him down pretty much already asleep. That's for another post, just wanted to mention it.
Most of our middle of the night wakings are gone, just a wake now and again for his dummy. But he's waking 3 or 4 times before his DF. After that he's settled for a good long chunk of sleep.
The past few days we have had EWs, earlier and earlier (545, then 530, now 510ish) and he will NOT go back to sleep. So, I try and try but by 600have to get him up. Then of course he needs his nap earlier, which means all naps are earlier and it is an ever early-ing cycle.
What can I change in my EASY to help this?
