Loooong NWs in almost 9 mo

[laurla200]

We’ve solved a lot of issues in the past few months but now we’re dealing with extremely long periods of NW and I don’t know what to do. 

DS did this for almost ten days straight a couple weeks ago and it seemed to be connected to his afternoon nap which was getting shorter and shorter but he’s back to his usual two-hour afternoon nap and he’s still having trouble.  Last night he was up from 2:30-4:30am wide awake.  It’s almost always a two hour stretch. 

We give him a bottle if he wakes after 2am and he takes a full fee.  He *used* to go right back to sleep after it.  Help!  Here’s our easy from yesterday:

Wake 6:15
E Solids 6:30
A
E Bottle 8:45
S 9-10:30

E Solids 11am
A
E Bottle 12:15pm
S 12:30-2:30

A
E Bottle 3:40pm
A
E Solids 6:15pm
A
Bedtime routine 7:30pm
E Bottle 7:55pm
Asleep in crib 8:05pm

No waking until 2:30am and then all bets were off.  He cries unless we’re holding him, he cries if we sit down with him.  He wants to be walked around. 

As far as putting him down at bedtime, we feed, cuddle for a minutes and put him down half asleep, he does the rest.  He resettles himself a few times before midnight so I know he can do it. 

Three days a week I pick him up from daycare and he may or may not catnap on the drive home from 5:30-6pm.  That doesn’t seem to have an effect on the NWs.

[ZacsMumme]

Hi there

It looks like your LO is getting quite a lot of day sleep, and his day is unbalanced which is likely causing the Long NW. His A times are very short between and before his naps for a 8-9 month old but then his A to BT is too long. This gets LOs into an UT/OT loop

The good news is if you push our his day to be more balanced I think you will see an improvement pretty quickly.

I would try a min of 3hrs before that first nap, so just an extra 15 mins, then cap it at 1.5 hrs. Then after this nap give him another 3 hrs Minimum before the next nap. I would also cap this at 1.5 hrs. (or you can cap the am at 1hr and offer 2 hrs in the pm)

BT should be no more than 4 hrs larger, ideally more like 3.5.

What do you think?

Hugs, long NW suck!

[laurla200]

Ah, I didn’t get the email from your reply, sorry! 

I’d been toying with that afternoon nap time.  When he’s home (4 out of 7 days) that second nap gets pushed to 1:30 or 2pm.  He’s at daycare 3 days a week and the above EASY was from a daycare day.  They have set nap times for the entire room but I’m going to talk to them about trying a 1pm nap time this week so they can slowly bump it out.  Hopefully it won't upset the room's balance too much.  Thank you, will be back with the results!

[ZacsMumme]

Good luck!