My son is 4 months old on Thursday (in two days) and I've discovered that he can go 4 hours between feedings. Unfortunately, our afternoon naps have fallen apart, and he's a crying mess until bedtime. He sleeps through the night from 7 until 7 with an 11pm DF, but last night he woke at 1:30 and 4:00 (went back down fairly easily) and I'm afraid that the sloppy daytime sleep is finally catching up to him.
Before I read BW, he was actually already in an 3 hour EASY routine, napping three times a day (for at least 1 1/2 hours) and sleeping through the night. I read the book for tips on making bedtime easier (he cries/screams while settling down.)
I feel like I shouldn't have tried to transition him--he was doing incredibly well on the 3 hour, but it seemed like he wasn't interested in eating so frequently, so I started to stretch his A time.
He can stay awake for 1.45 to 2 hours, but he only naps for 1.30 in the morning. In the afternoon, I'm having trouble figuring out when to put him down, and I don't know if he's OT or UT. We've been all over the place.
On Friday, his EASY was:
wake: 6:35
E: 6:50
S: 8:35-10:30
E: 10:50
S:12:40-2:55
E: 3:00
S:5:00-5:45
E: 6:45
S: 7:00
DF: 11:00
I was ecstatic!
But yesterday we had
W: 6:20
E: 6:45
S: 8:20-10:00
E: 10:45
S: 12:00-12:35 (tried shh/pat and pu/pd for quite a while)
finally slept from 1:45-3:00
E: 3:00
S: 5:00-5:45
E: 6:45
S: 7:00
My biggest concern is that he is at my mother-in-law's during the afternoon 3 days a week, and she keeps telling me "he doesn't want to sleep." I tell her that he's too young to "not want to sleep." I tell her that he's actually pretty tired, and that letting him only nap for on 45 minutes is compounding the problem.
I'm wondering if I should scale back to the 3.5 EASY. He was doing well on that, even though I know he can go longer between feedings. I'm stressed, and I think he's stressed, too.
