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Re: Ready to give up weaning NF - got support and won't - join me :)
« Reply #120 on: April 07, 2011, 02:26:50 am »
i dont know how we will ever make the transition, DS's am A time is only 2.5 hrs then a 45min nap, then another 3.25hr A time, then a 1.25 hr nap and then a 45/4.75 hrs A time....

do you think our problme is our EASY?
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Re: Ready to give up weaning NF - got support and won't - join me :)
« Reply #121 on: April 07, 2011, 02:57:34 am »
 Yeah Martina a phase, how exhausting for you though.  I am finding that paracetemol before bed and as soon as he wakes at night is going a long way... we have not had any more long NW's since!
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Re: Ready to give up weaning NF - got support and won't - join me :)
« Reply #122 on: April 07, 2011, 11:21:48 am »
mukta I think it's worth a look at your EASY with those A times.  I think you could push him a bit more.

Eloise I have been giving ibuprofen before bed and when he wakes if it's time for more and it has been helping.

Last night he slept better, not a peep before 3:45 compared to the two previous nights where he woke between 12-1 for an hour.  But I was weak and fed him.   :-[  *sigh*  During the day I feel ok about not feeding but at night I'm a zombie.  I keep saying that when I get myself out of OT I can tackle it, but let's face it I've been in a chronic state of OT for almost a year now!   ::)

I think that good stretch got him out of the OT hole though because he is much happier today.

Just out of curiosity, Eloise what does your routine look like on one nap?
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Re: Ready to give up weaning NF - got support and won't - join me :)
« Reply #123 on: April 07, 2011, 13:44:45 pm »
yes please, lets ahve some succesful routines 1 and 2 naps please.

I will push am nap by about 15 minutes and see....wish me luck!
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Re: Ready to give up weaning NF - got support and won't - join me :)
« Reply #124 on: April 07, 2011, 14:51:34 pm »
Sorry some of you are still have long NW's it is soo hard when you are tired. Logan has been sleeping through for almost a week(knock on wood) and I feel like a new person. His day sleep is still off but I will take it, the last couple of days all he wants to do is sleep yesterday he slept for 2 hours in the afternoon then was only up for an hour and had to have a 45 min nap.He then went to bed at 6:30 and slept through till 7:15 :o

I don't know if he isn't feeling well r what?? And it seems like today is going to be the same he has only been up for an hour and he is already getting crank and rubbing his eyes.....it's going to be a long day!!

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« Reply #125 on: April 08, 2011, 01:05:10 am »
Our routine is roughtly 5 hours A time.  Wake 6:30am, nap 11:30am - 1:00pm, bed  7pm.

Drats we had the roughest of rough nights last night.... 3 hours awake and sleeping with 10 min little naps here and there, he ekpt waking up.  I stupidly put him on a major new food intridcutino 48 hours ago and I am betting it's that.   Or else the teeth, but this was pretty bad.

 Sigh, we still have not had more than one sttn in a row!

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« Reply #126 on: April 08, 2011, 01:09:31 am »
Hmmm, so you have K do a longer pm A....that is opposite what we have been doing but I have been wondering if I need to do a shorter am A and a longer pm one with the one nap business.

My issue is I desperately want the boys to nap at almost the same time so I tend to push F to do a longer am A time.  Will have to play with that a bit.

Sorry about the rough night.  :(  Wish things would just get and stay consistent!

T was consistently sttn by 10mos.  F is nowhere close!  ::)
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« Reply #127 on: April 08, 2011, 01:47:33 am »
sometimes we 5.5 in the morning If I am late at getting back whatever, but he is pretty darn tired though, yawning away and red circles around his eyes.   Of course if you can get the kids to nap together that's probably more important. 
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« Reply #128 on: April 08, 2011, 08:44:03 am »
Hey everyone

I'm thinking of weaning my lo off her NF as I've had enough after 7 1/2 months of getting up in the night and by this age she should be sttn! She has a bottle before bed at around 6.30pm and I currently do a df at 10pm (formula) and she wakes at around 2-2.30 for a feed (breastfeed) and again at 5 but we don't feed her and she goes back to sleep until 6.30am.

I'm not sure whether to drop the df to encourage her to go longer without a feed but then she'll wake earlier and probably more often. Or to continue with the df and reduce the amount she has at 2-2.30 to try and stop the waking at that time?? Any ideas would be really appreciated. I was going to try going cold turkey but we've had such bad nights for the last few weeks that I just don't think I can handle it!
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Re: Ready to give up weaning NF - got support and won't - join me :)
« Reply #129 on: April 08, 2011, 14:14:02 pm »
hugs ELoise on the terrible night.

I had it a bit rough and broke down and fed him at midnight and then he slept till 5, and he had a decent feed

Nots ure what to do, our days are 12.5 hrs and nights are 11.5 obviously with NW...

I might try and push the am nap out but right now the am A time is super short!
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Re: Ready to give up weaning NF - got support and won't - join me :)
« Reply #130 on: April 08, 2011, 22:32:35 pm »
Mukta~ I noticed a huge difference when I uped Logans am A time. He was only doing an hour am A time but I bumped it up to 2.5 hours.
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« Reply #131 on: April 08, 2011, 23:27:33 pm »
mukta, I think you can safely up his A time.  I find a lot of times we get stuck thinking they can't handle more but they can.  They're 'programmed' to feel tired after a short A but after a few days they catch up.  F wasn't doing very long A's and now he is doing them ok.  I think they just need to adjust. 

I fed F at 4:30 last night.  He wakes at 5:45 every morning out of habit, and I usually leave him and he'll be ok until 6:15/6:30.  Well this morning I was so tired I just kinda phased his fussing out, and he went back to sleep until 7:30 when I woke him!  So I think I need to just leave him be longer.  He was so much happier today with that extra sleep.

Going to try and make it until after 5 for the feedings this weekend. 
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« Reply #132 on: April 09, 2011, 13:23:41 pm »
good luck Martina  :)

Yes I agree Mukta, push that first A time out more.

Well I have not fed Kai at night for 8 nights now.  We gave other pain meds last ngiht and he sttn from 7pm till 5am. But woke at 5am grumpy and teething and would not return to sleep.
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Re: Ready to give up weaning NF - got support and won't - join me :)
« Reply #133 on: April 11, 2011, 18:40:38 pm »
and it gets worse. Tetehing or something is killing me..DS was up every 2 hrs last night...

we pushed out his am nap and it works except I ahve to AP him insteda of just patting him while he falls asleep..not sure which is the lesser evil!

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« Reply #134 on: April 11, 2011, 18:50:23 pm »
(((hugs))) mukta.  I was thinking about this thread when I was up for almost 1.5hrs last night with F who refused to settle!   :P

I don't know how we're ever going to drop this last NF.  I ended up giving in and feeding him at 4:45 because I was just tired of getting up and down with him.  I have NO idea why he was awake.  He wasn't crying really, but when left he wouldn't settle either.  Meds didn't help.  I just don't know. 
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