Time for a set nap time? OR Limit Daytime Sleep? Set Bedtime?

[hrk]

I was distracted this morning and missed the wake up time, lol.  Only .5 missed.  Not too bad Lyle!  Any sense if the crankiness is just teething related?  I hope that is all, and things will settle for you Sher!  Anyway, hope today was good, too.

H had a wacky day with my mom visiting and the ils being here tonight.  Fingers crossed for an ok wake up EVEN WITH A 7:30 BEDTIME, lol.  That is the big news here.  :-)

[EloysH]

ooh cool on the good night sleep for Lyle.  I hope you don't have what we have ---long term cranky boy ------   J is an angel for 1 hour after wake-up then rapidly deteriorates.  The teething is knocking him around. He has had his fingers in his mouth for a whole week now 


Jean: I wonder if Heath will wake at his usual time then tomorrow?


Thank goodness its Saturday tomorrow, my sister and 7 month old LO are arriving from another state.  I haven't seen them in 3 months 

[sherry lynn]

Jean - I hope you got a good wake up.

Eloys - I hope you have a great day with visitors. I hope J takes a good nap for you.

So yesterday's nap was 2h14m and then he STTN and gave me 10.5 hours last night. That is the longest in quite awhile. I didn't even get that when he only slept 1.5 during the day. So who knows. We have a busy day today also, so hopefully everything will go ok.

[hrk]

Yeay Lyle!  I hope things continue to get better with the teeth coming through.  Hopefully he is starting to feel a little better or can sleep through it.

Well, H was up before 5:30.  (I didn't look at the clock until then, as he wasn't going back to sleep.  He was up earlier; I just don't know how long.)  SIGH!  He will not sleep in longer if we go to bed early.  Nor will he sleep in as long lately in general.  Needless to say, it has been a tired morning.  I am still going for 11:00 nap time.  We will see what happens.

Enjoy the holiday to those celebrating!

[sherry lynn]

Good luck Jean.

Things aren't going so well here. He is just a mess this morning. Trying to decide if I'm going to risk story time at the library or not

[hrk]

Are you suspecting teeth as he has had a good routine the past couple of days?  Waht do you think?  Does motrin improve his mood at all?

I went to the walk in clinic today.  I didn't want to spend a lot of time at the regular clinic.  We were in and out in 15 minutes.  Nothing going on with his ears; no fever or other signs of illness.  Dr suspects teething.  All the wakings and reflux flare up and less eating and greater fussiness all sound like teeth??  So, that is what I am going with at this time.  Looks like these last molars may be a bugger.  I am thinking that I may try some pain relief tonight if he wakes tonight or tomorrow morning.  Fingers crossed for a decent nap today.  Didn't give any pain meds so we will see.  I need to go nap, lol.

[sherry lynn]

Jean - I hope you got a good nap in. I'm sorry to hear you are having a hard time. I didn't realize that *hugs* to you. Wow, just think, you will be done with teething. That must be a good feeling. (well.... it will be, right now it all stinks)

I know it's teeth He's having a really rough time of it. I think he's getting all 8 at the same time He's at least getting a handful. It will be good when we get to the other side of this.

I do consider 10 or 10.5 hours a good night's sleep.

But when it's under ten I don't know if I do. Do you guys?

[hrk]

I prefer H to do 10.5, but am good with 10 (8-6).  But I think I have to cut nap to do it, but it is hard to figure out right now.  This teething business keeps me guessing. 

H woke 1h15 in to nap.  It is so unusual to get napping like this from H.  I went in, gave him motrin, he cried out 15 min later, but went back to sleep.  I just opened his door to slowly wake him at 1:40 (he went down at 11, but had that waking). 

THANK GOODNESS he went back to sleep.  Perhaps we can have a good afternoon.  I do suspect teething, with the motrin working.  Doesn't help that TODAY the neighbor decides to work on the shed he started to build TWO YEARS ago, lol.  Great timing.

[EloysH]

hugs ladies

we had a silly day, after visiting my sister J decided he would NOT nap at my mums house.  So by the time we left at 2pm, he still took 30 mins to fall asleep in the car at which time we were 5 mins from home.  Luckily DH offered to drive him around for a while


Sherry: On the short nights I am happy with 10 hours. No problem there. Anything under 10 hours and jarrah wlil be crabby the next day and will need to catch that up in his naps.  He rarely goes under 10 hours,  it's more that his naps are the problem.  He is soo pooped form short naps or missing a nap that he has 11 hour nights now.   Last night he did 12 hours and woke at 7:20am!

Sorry that you had a rough day, did you do the story time?  I risked putting Jarrah ain the creche this week and it backfired big time.  I was so desperate to get out due to all the rain we've had.

I hope that you get a good lot of teeth out of this.  I am quite happy that I got 2 teeth from this episode, but it has lasted over 3 weeks now 

Jean: darn the neighbour, why today?  A few months back we had so much building going on in our street and road works upsetting J's sleep that I eventually turned into a mother hen, fluffed up my feathers and asked the workmen to please keep the noise down at so and so time as my LO can't sleep! They were actually quite helpful! 

Sorry Heath is having a rough time.  Aw, just think after these molars you are in the all clear regards to teething. Short naps  and short nights are part of the territory eh?  I try not to think about it too much when teething, as there are no logical answers.  The main thing I think about is "is he still teething or is something else the problem?"
 

[hrk]

Sher, how did things go?

Eloys, hugs for the no nap :-(.

H was up for nearly 2 hrs last night and another 20 this morning.  What in the world is going on.  Long nap, terrible night.  We will see what today brings.  I think I am feeling more ready to do that scope.  Tired of always wondering if it is the reflux on top of the many other things there could be going on.  Unfortunately I am having a day with my mom, cousin, grandma an dh has to fend for himself and H.  I hope it goes ok.

[sherry lynn]

Jean - I hope you have a great day with the family. DH is working today so it's just me and Lyle. I got irritated with myself because I keep forgetting the farmer's market is back on and that was the perfect thing for today. ERRRR.... I have no other plans. Maybe I'll take Lyle to the library.

On that note. No we didn't go to the library Eloys. I got half way there and turned around because Lyle was a mess in the back seat, already. So I figured it was not a good idea. He was a mess all morning.

I had to wake him at 2.5 yesterday. He had an OK afternoon. But I felt like he had 100 tantrums yesterday.

last night was weird he woke up at 9:05, but put himself back to sleep. Then he had a night waking at 4:10 and I went and gave meds and he finally went back to sleep at about 4:30 (I think) Then he cried out a few other times. But he didn’t get up for the day until 7:30. He was grumpy around 12:15 so I went ahead and put him down. So we’ll see how the nap goes. I’m hoping for 1.5 at least.

[hrk]

How was the farmer's market?  Don't blame you for skipping the library that day.  I do the same thing if H seems a bit crazy, lol.  How did nap go?  How are things today?

Things seemed so/so prior to this week.  Then the past week things seemed to be off the wall.  Better yesterday/today. 

H did 1h50 yesterday.  Was delightful the whole day, and had a great night sleep.  Perhaps that is the perfect number.  (Coincidentally, that is about when he has had those wakings at nap, but sometimes goes back to sleep.)  Anyway, as soon as I say that it is the perfect combo, it won't work the next time, lol.  Nap started at 11:35 today.  If we are going to do shortner naps, I think we should aim for them ending a little closer to bedtime.  We will see what today brings.  I keep changing my mind (or losing my mind?).  Heading out to my parents for dinner/bonfire this afternoon/evening.  Haven't decided what we will do about bedtime.  He sleeps nowhere but his crib or carseat.

[sherry lynn]

Jean - Lyle also did 1h50m today. It ended at 1:20. But he's on and off cranky again Well actually he did very well in the morning, but cranky after nap.
I took him to a Festival yesterday and he had a blast playing with older kids who were complete strangers

I think we are in the same boat actually. Yesterday went so smoothly. And everything started exactly an hour later.

Lyle STTN with not even a single peep and woke in a great mood today at 6:25. So I think I need to move the nap forward. To maybe 12 or 12:30?

[hrk]

H did just over 2.5 today w/o a peep.  Let him go as we will be up late.  I hope we made the right decision.  It seems that we are swinging between long and shorter naps.  Perhaps somewhere in the middle is just right.  I wonder if 1h50 will be too short.  However it is not far off the 2 hr mark for age.

Do you mean he woke later, nap later, bedtime later yesterday?  I think Lyle was napping at about 11ish right?  Perhaps trying the later will produce more good days/nights in the whole scheme of things? 

Heading out to my parents now.  We will see how things go tonight, lol.  Fingers crossed he isn't a train wreck later. Thinking we may drive him to sleep and then try to hang out at the fire with the truck parked close by to hear him.  That will perhaps work the best.

[EloysH]

Hi Girls,

jarrah seems better yesterday after a 3 hour nap!  We're going t mpove the nap back to 12:30pm as soon as w e can, he's lasting alot longer now that he's not teething so bad.   Yesterday he went down at 12:30.  We're seeing glimpses of his old self again, which is great.   No tantrums so far today.


Hugs Jean, I really hope those molars come through.  I guess doing the scope would give you concrete data, and with having reflux at this age, definantly called for.  Are you doing the chiropractic with Heath?      Oh I nrealy forgot to tell you...   my best friends child had severe reflux with failuyre tot hrive and refusing to eat.  She's been in the 1st percentile for weight.  They tried everything, hadher on meds, herbs, everything.  Then they took her to a cranial osteopath who is also a trained naturopath.  The first session he said she was too stiff, he couldn't do anything.  The next session he said, yes I moved something.  After that session, she was literally CURED over night. She is now a happy, soft, (not stiff) baby and eating like a horse.  He also said she had wheat intolerances, so they took her off that.