i'm at my wits end trying to figure out what the heck is going on with my almost 11 weeker with naps this week. does something happen around this time developmentally? i can't remember and i do not have any time to read these days. (she has started to drool.)
last few days dd has not been napping great and i can't figure it out. she has been on a loose 3 hour easy for a while now. i do have a 5.5 year old i have to take/pick up for school and poor kid is neglected at times when he is home bc i am doing my best to wind down the baby for a nap, etc. she was sleeping 1.5 - 2 hr naps pretty consistently with approx one hour awake time. i go by her cues though not clock. i cluster feed her in the evening 4/6 and down for bed at 8ish. she does get fussy 6pm on and i have a hard time getting her to catnap and sometimes to sleep at 8pm. it is the classic 3 hour easy with a 7 am wake time (give or take 30 min). for wind down, once she started yawning and getting fussy i would swaddle, give a paci, and she gets drowsy pretty quick and then easy to put down. this week, this is not working at all.
these last 2 days she has been a lot more fussy and if starts crying can be very hard to settle. (she is also harder to settle after NW/nursing.) she will scream and scream and it takes forever to get her to settle so i try very hard not to get there. i have tried everything today to get her to nap. in a swing, on her tummy, etc, etc. yes not very consistent today but i also don't want her to freak out from being OT and getting OS so doing whatever i can to get a nap (not working obviously!).
today she has napped one 40 min nap and maybe cat napped on/off on me only. yesterday had one good nap and the rest not so great.
i had just gotten her to fall asleep, put her in the bassinet and of course she woke up in less than 10 min. she wasn't swaddled bc she FREAKED out when i put her in the swaddle (which normally calms her) and was screaming at the top of her lungs. So when she woke, i tried re-swaddling got her to sleep again and put her in the bassinet. She woke after 5-10 minutes and tried resettling w/ paci, etc was super alert so i transferred her to the swing which almost always works and of course she is super alert. So after 45 min of trying to get her to sleep, she is finally asleep in the swing. FX and a prayer she will sleep for a good stretch. (she woke briefly and i replugged with paci).
i'm a big believer in sleep begets sleep so this nap thing really stresses me out bc then i feel like i'm guaranteed to have a bad night and i'm really feeling the lack of sleep these days from NWs.
of all days when i have a million things to do and my son has been begging me to play cars with me all day, i'm really frustrated. and then i'm guilty bc i tried forever to have this baby so don't want to complain!
sorry just having one of those days! a friend is coming over tomorrow w/ her mom to bring me lunch. her mom has had 5 kids so maybe she can so some baby whispering on this baby LOL.
