Thank you for the replies! I am so glad this forum is here. I've found the site tricky to get to the past couple of days, though. Have you had issues accessing it? One of our computers couldn't get to it at all yesterday - I tried 3 different browsers, but kept getting the message that the page couldn't be found after I clicked on it from Google. Finally my desktop got there...but now I'm on the laptop and no problem today! Strange huh?
Anyway! One problem at a time!
My LO woke at 3:30 again last night. My DH got up to get him back down again and said that he didn't seem hungry, but when he's waking up in the night he is wired. He is kicking all around and vocalizing a lot - he's very squirmy and seems like he wants to get up. It usually takes around 30 mins to get him back down. We don't do too much with him at this point because we know that there's a danger of making some very bad habits stick at this point, so we don't hold for too long if he's crying, and we don't talk to him except to soothe him when he's in his crib. He is no longer in a swaddle (he sleeps in a little sack) and he's been in his own room and crib since he was 1 month old (we did it a little early because we couldn't sleep with him in our room). We always put him down to sleep awake and he'll either drift off on his own or fuss himself to sleep (other times he cries and I need to shh pat) it just depends on whether we've got him at the right time, I think.
He's actually a little over a week away from being 5 months old and I definitely remember the 4 month growth spurt! It was intense, but short, I found. I do cluster a bit in the evenings. If he has a 3 pm feed I will feed him again at 5 and then his last feed is between 7/7:30. And for the last bottle of the day we usually make it pretty big. We usually give 7.5 - 8 oz and if he eats it very quickly we will give another 2 oz or so, so I feel like we're topping him off pretty well. How many oz should LOs of this age be having in a day or in a sitting?
Sunday looked like this:
Awake @ 7am
E: 7:15
A: 7:30 - 9
S: 9-11 (with a wake up and put back down at about 9:30)
E: 11
A: 11:15-12:45
S: 12:45-2:45 (with a wake up and put back down at 1-1:15)
E: 2:50
A: 3:15-5
S: 5-5:30 (with a bit of a battle)
E: 5:30
A: 5:45-7
E: 7:15
Bedtime: 7:40
For LO's activities, I take him for a walk with our dogs, show him trees (which he LOVES - I don't know how we'll handle winter because he loves to be outside), put him on his play mat, sit him in his chair with his Sophie giraffe or toy, give tummy time, sing songs in the mirror with him or that sort of thing.
Then yesterday was like this:
E: 3:50
S: 4:10-8:10
Awake for day @ 8:10
E: 8:50
A: 9:15- 10
S: 10-12:20 (woke up at 10:45 and then didn't go back down until 11:45 - so much crying and fighting)
E: 12:45
A: 1-2:30
S: 2: 30-4:50 (28 mins of sleep, 20 mins awake with me trying to get him back down, followed by 1h35m of straight sleep)
E:5
A: 5:15-7 (including bath)
E: 7:15
Bedtime 7:40 or so
I'm not sure if there are better activities that I should be doing? He almost never indicates that he's hungry! The only time he ever fusses at all is when he's tired or bored. He's generally a pretty awesome guy. And when he's awake he doesn't seem to be experiencing any discomfort to indicate that he's teething. Just this past week he's been waking up during his naps and is squirmy and during the night wired!
It seems that the past 3 nights he's awoken right around 3:30, so there may be a habit forming there. Perhaps tonight I should try the W2S method?? I'm nervous about it, though.
Please let me know if you have any other ideas. Thanks so much!!!
