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Re: down to 2 naps at 6 mo.
« Reply #15 on: March 17, 2011, 16:16:01 pm »
I might be a little late chiming in to the OP, but when DS dropped his naps... cat nap, and 2-1 and then stopped napping... we had to move his bedtime forward significantly to make up for the missing nap.  It didn't last forever, but there were times when he regularly went to bed at 630 and that was stretching him.  It didn't last forever, but it did work until he adjusted better to his new routine.

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Re: down to 2 naps at 6 mo.
« Reply #16 on: March 17, 2011, 21:01:02 pm »
Jumping in too.  My days are all over the place ATM.

We are currently plagued by EW at 4-5am & I am sure this is to do with needing to drop the CN. DS is 7 months this week & can manage a good 3hr A time now, but we're finding it very hard to get rid of the CN as the early starts make it a very long day without it! 

His am nap is always a sure thing but the pm nap often goes wrong.  We too are having ridiculously long last A time, but unfortunately he's ending up going to bed OT.  We're now trying a few days of early BT to try & combat the OT & EW.  He's gone down at 5.30pm the last 3 days.  Sigh!!

I keep wondering about set nap times too, just so there's some consistency to the day.  But how do you do it when some days he gets up at 4.15 & others he gets up at 6.30????!!!!


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Re: down to 2 naps at 6 mo.
« Reply #17 on: March 19, 2011, 00:19:36 am »
Ali G - and A detective is a good term! I feel like we are in an OT cycle, and I need to catch him up on some sleep.  He has started waking at night and needing help to go back to sleep (but not a feeding, DH did it) I put him down at 6:30 tonights -- we will see what tomorrow brings.  any progress on your end?
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Re: down to 2 naps at 6 mo.
« Reply #18 on: March 19, 2011, 00:25:13 am »
Peepersmom -- thanks for sharing your experience!!  I put him to bed early tonight to catch him up on sleep -- he doesn't want to give me more than 1 hour naps at the moment...

clairebear79 - when he wakes are you able to settle him without a feeding??  Our LO has woken at night before and been able to put himself to sleep..but the last few nights he has needed help.  I sent DH in to settle him because I didn't want to offer food if it wasn't really needed. I wonder if our wakings are due to being OT from poor naps.

I don't really have an opinion on set naps ATM....T is our first.  It sounds very convenient!!!  I don't think I could do it right now because his naps are so inconsistent, and I really feel that he is OT.  perhaps once he catches up on sleep...how are things going?
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Re: down to 2 naps at 6 mo.
« Reply #19 on: March 19, 2011, 13:30:16 pm »
emily3434 - we don't feed at night now.  We did a 4-5am feed until DS was about 5 months but he wasn't wanting his morning feed so we cut it back a little bit & then he just suddenly slept through. 

Then within a week or two we were back to waking up.  Had it suggested that maybe he was hungry & he would definitely drink a full bottle if we offered it, but he doesn't settle back to sleep afterwards, he just wants to get up!  So we leave him to (hopefully) resettle & he is usually quite happy to lay in his cot & babble until well after 6am.  If he wakes during the night he can self settle.
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Re: down to 2 naps at 6 mo.
« Reply #20 on: March 19, 2011, 14:19:08 pm »
aren't they funny?  He just doesn't realize that mommy has a better way of doing this!!
Funny to think about how much teenagers sleep and how parents are always trying to get them up!

how did your early BT go last night?  I fed at 6:30 then straight to bed.  he had a rought night and was finally gone by 8:30.  ugh.  one step forward, 2 steps back!
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Re: down to 2 naps at 6 mo.
« Reply #21 on: March 19, 2011, 15:04:38 pm »
I know!!!

Early BT at 6pm - straight off to sleep then woke up at 3am crying as he rolled onto his tummy.  Then kept doing it for about an hour. Sigh!  Up for the day at 4.45am.  Double sigh!  We are having a VERY tired day today with lots of crying.  EW's suck!!!!
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Re: down to 2 naps at 6 mo.
« Reply #22 on: March 19, 2011, 15:09:24 pm »
yuck! so sorry to hear that!

have you thought about maybe doing a late evening catnap, then moving bedtime back a bit to hopefully have him wake at a more reasonable time?
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Re: down to 2 naps at 6 mo.
« Reply #23 on: March 20, 2011, 12:46:14 pm »
oh we've done that & had later BT, gone without CN & done early BT, tried later am nap, longer A times, all sorts!!!  I have my own post about our lovely troubles already - its been going on a long time now!  I actually think the catnap is one of the problems - he doesnt need it anymore & its stealing from his night sleep. 
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Re: down to 2 naps at 6 mo.
« Reply #24 on: March 20, 2011, 15:44:21 pm »
Hi ladies,
One thing I don't get is why the need to drop the CN (but still having it) results in NWs...? Is it because they're getting too much daytime sleep?
Having a nightmare with naps at the moment. No consistency at all. And a lot of the days, only averaging 2hrs tops, split between three - sometimes four - naps. No chance of dropping the CN ever until longer naps...
Have your boys got any teeth yet? Did that affect sleep at all (day and or night)?
I tell you one thing, I am fed up with trying to work out A times and am just baffled most of the time. I've expended so much emotional energy getting worked up about daytime sleeps it's crazy. Part of me just now thinks, go with it. If he wakes up after 25mins, then so be it. I can't make him sleep. Argh.
Clairebear, how much sleep is your little man having during the day? Is he doing 3hrs A yet?
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Re: down to 2 naps at 6 mo.
« Reply #25 on: March 20, 2011, 17:00:40 pm »
AliG - on a good day he will do 2x 1.5hr naps & a 3hr A inbetween.  Sometimes a little more.  But with all the EW he can't always stay up so long.  In the last few days some of his naps have been short at 30mins (OT) or 1hr ???? who knows what this is - maybe UT I think.  Then we have do do a CN to tide him over til BT.  They do like to confuse us!!!!!

DS has 2 teeth already - got them at 5 months.  Think more may be on the way.  :(
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Re: down to 2 naps at 6 mo.
« Reply #26 on: March 21, 2011, 12:54:58 pm »
That's pretty good napping, but appreciate the EWs play havoc. How is the earlier bedtime going?

One thing I'll say is 30min naps for me mean UT I think. I got caught up in the 'they mean OT' thing, so was cutting the A time more and more, to then still get 30min naps, but by that time there was hours to go until food. So I upped it instead and got some decent naps. Last few days have been unbelievably all over the place, so no idea what's going on. No such thing as a typical day or nap length at the moment. Think I need to go back to the drawing board...
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Re: down to 2 naps at 6 mo.
« Reply #27 on: March 21, 2011, 13:18:30 pm »
Earlier BT giving mixed results - he's been very OT over the last week.  Last night he slept well from 6pm - 5.15am but naps today are truly horrific (45mins then 25mins) & lots of crying in between - not fun.  Seems if we have good night sleep the next day is bad & vice versa.  Can't win ATM!

Think his teeth are also giving him a lot of pain so got him dosed up & am trying to be really patient with him. 
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