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Re: Is 1 hour nap OT?
« Reply #15 on: January 20, 2014, 15:17:46 pm »
Poor baby, sounds like a whole lot of things going on there.  And hugs for you, things naturally change A LOT at 4 mos, I'm sure it's nothing to do with what you've done!

Is she ill, do you think?  If she is, then I would just try to go with her sleep needs.  I don't know if you've experience of her being under the weather, but my two always need lots of extra sleep when ill and it does seem to help them get better faster. 

The waking up early after BT (30 or 45 mins) and screaming is something my LO1 did around this age.  It was a sure sign of OT for us, and it was rock hard to get him back down.  I'm conscious that she's an angel baby and they will just go along with things until they can't cope any more, so perhaps it'd be worth scaling back A times for naps and seeing if that helps her a bit.

I'm interested by what you say about her different behaviour to her brother - maybe her 'tired' just doesn't look like it, more like wound up and ready to go?  That's a clear OT sign here, strange as it sounds.

Slightly OT (off topic), but I'm intrigued that she's BF and going 4.5 hours between feeds.  I assume she's having top-ups too?  If not, I am truly amazed! You might want to up the tempo of daytime feeds, if you think she's having a growth spurt, but you can also expect a couple of NFs.
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Re: Is 1 hour nap OT?
« Reply #16 on: January 20, 2014, 16:47:14 pm »
I'm conscious that she's an angel baby and they will just go along with things until they can't cope any more

Just a thought here, my E is angel/textbook and as a smaller baby she was just like your DD. I wouldn't get tired signs or anything and I had no indicator that she was in a bad mood because of tiredness (like grizzliness or general unhappiness) she would always be happy happy happy and then a bit hyperactive until she wasn't and by then it was usually too late. It does sound like maybe she's coming down with something.

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Re: Is 1 hour nap OT?
« Reply #17 on: January 20, 2014, 20:02:49 pm »
I don't think she's getting sick. Yep only BF and no top ups. Had her weighed yesterday and she's right on track and very chubby :). I did ask the nurse about the long time between feeds and she said to go with it.

She had a feed at 2am last night. About to get her upto start the day. I'm going to do 2 hour A time today.


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Re: Is 1 hour nap OT?
« Reply #18 on: January 22, 2014, 03:28:23 am »
Just wanted to update for anyone else having these odd naps.
Yesterday and today I cut right back to 2 hour A time and we're having great naps again and no feed overnight. I'm not sure why she has gone back to shorter A time but I can only assume its because she's more "playful" and chatty so is getting tired. Or it's because she's such an angel baby that she just let me keep her up too long and it took her two weeks for it to all catch up with her.
A big thanks to everyone who helped me. Fingers crossed we have a good bedtime tonight.


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Re: Is 1 hour nap OT?
« Reply #19 on: January 22, 2014, 06:46:51 am »
So glad to hear things are improving. :)
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