Dear all,
My Noah is 12 months old (corrected) but really is still more of a baby than a toddler, so I'm posting here. His EASY:
Wake anywhere 6.20-7, will play happily by himself until 7 or thereabouts
E: bottle 7, fruit and yoghurt 8.30
A: will include school run in pram as of next week!
S: 10.30-12 or 12.30
E: 12.30 lunch, bottle 3.30
A: will include school run
S: 3.45-4.45
E: 6.30 dinner, 7.30 bottle and bed
Yes, this is a very weird schedule. It's evolved in order to fit the school run, and seems to be working so far.
The problem is that though he goes down beautifully for naps and wakes happy and babbling, getting him to sleep at bedtime is insane. We wind down by going upstairs, doing his sats (he is on oxygen at night due to being three months early, no other medical issues), reattach his cannula and take a bath, which he adores. Put on pyjamas and grobag, have a bottle in his room, then look out the window for a bit to settle, then put into cot. He is insanely fidgety, so we have to hold his arms down. He doesn't cry-he chats, wiggles, scuffs his feet, tries to roll around, kicks, swings his legs round to catch his toes in the slats of the cot and leverage himself sideways (THROUGH the grobag)... It takes a minimum of 40 minutes to finally get him to drop off. When he wiggles too much we do PU/PD, but it is of minimal help. Once he is down, he sleeps through and very rarely wakes, although he rolls all over the place like a weasel!
Any suggestions and/or ideas gratefully received. It's been a couple of months now, and we are knackered.
Thank you!
