Hi,
My son will be 6 months next week. He's textbook, generally easy going and good natured. At 4 months, he was sleeping through the night pretty consistently. At 5 months, he started to roll over onto his back (he is a tummy sleeper) and subsequently wake himself up and can't put himself back to sleep because he can't roll the other way. When he wakes at night, I don't feed him, and he stays awake on average 1.5 hrs, usually playing in his crib until the last 1/2 hour when he starts to cry and shh/pat works to calm him and go back to sleep. He's just learned to roll to his tummy, which is very promising for all of us.
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He's been on EASY since he was 3 months and WAS falling asleep more independently but then required more intervention with this rolling over business. I'm just now getting him back to more independent sleep, but he sometimes still needs shh/pat to go the rest of the way. He doesn't use a paci or suck his thumb, EBF, has reflux but is under control with medicine.
I can't seem to find any way to get him to sleep through the night and I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. I follow the same routine and he sometimes wakes and sometimes doesn't, which is frustrating! Or I'll change the routine and the same thing happens. Here are some examples from this week:
Sun night- regular routine during the day, was up from 3-4:30.
Wake at 6
E at 7:15
A until 8:35
S 2 hrs, up at 10:40
E at 11:15
A until 1:10
S 1 hr 45 min, up at 3
E at 3:15
A until 5:30
S 35 min catnap at 5:30
E at 7
S at 7:30
A DF at 11p
This would seem to be the ideal EASY per Tracy, but Sun night he was up from 3-4:30!
Monday night- essentially the same routine except I tried skipping the catnap. He ate at 6:50 and was asleep by 7. Since he ate a bit earlier, he woke up at 10:30 to eat (sometimes he beats me to the DF), but fell back asleep while eating. In spite of skipping the CN, he was awake again on Mon night from 3-4:15!
Tuesday night- no NW with same routine as Sun but shorter 2nd nap. Tues I went back to the regular routine including catnap, since it didn't seem to make a difference at it was hard for him to stay awake that long:
Wake at 7
E at 7:30
A until 9:35
S 1 hr 45 min, up at 11:10
E at 11:35
A until 2:05 (fell asleep at 1:15 for 10 min while I was out)
S 1 hr, up at 3:05, followed by 30min of shh/pat and PU/PD where he cried hysterically for about 30min
E at 3:40
A until 5:15
S 30 min catnap at 5:15
E at 7:15
S at 7:30
A DF at 12am ( I accidentally overslept and he woke me for the DF, but he fell back asleep while eating)
And with this routine, he sleep from 12:15 until 7:20!! So no NW. Could it have been the shorter 2nd nap, the crying from PU/PD, more activity/ stimulation by going out during the day vs staying at home? I can't figure it out!
Per Tracy, you should avoid feeding them in the night, which I haven't been doing, and up calories during the day. I try to get him to eat as much as possible and he's started solids last week, which hasn't seemed to make any difference in his sleep yet. Any guidance or advice is much appreciated!
Thanks,
Kristin