Hi,
DS is almost 9months (am I counting that correctly - he was born 16th Jan so I count the 16th of each month as a month older? With DD I used to count her as a month older every 4 weeks but was told that was wrong).
Anyway, he has STTN for months, BLW, 3 meals a day, 4 hr EASY, 4 bottles a day. He seems to be developing pretty quickly - crawling since 6.5months, cruising at 7mo, now he can nearly stand unaided.
A few weeks ago we had a horrible time where he had tonsilitis then a viral infection then got two teeth. His NWs were awful (screaming for up to 3hrs at a time). There may be some teething still going on here and there but I'm at the point where I now have no idea what his "ideal" A time should be and I'm pretty sure this is messing up his NS and causing NWs. And the past couple of days we're getting EWs. His A times have always jumped really quickly and I only ever seem to have a week or two of stability before his routine needs changing but at the moment he can do anything from 3-4hrs A time, sometimes a bit more.
I'm also wondering if he could be in the very early stages of the 2-1 transition as it's really hard to get a second nap sometimes. I don't know if I should cap his naps, let him have one long one etc etc. Yesterday for example, he was up at 5.25am. He lasted til about 9.30 when I put him down for a nap- he fussed a bit and I had to go back in to settle him but he ended up sleeping from 9.40 for ages. I was almost going to let him sleep up to 3 hours and see if he was aiming for a one nap day but realised that this would've left me having to put him to bed really early - about 5pm so didn't want to risk it. So I woke him at 2hrs and in the afternoon he only managed a 2nd nap of 10mins in the pram. So last night he woke at 2am (although I settled him v quickly) but then woke very lively at 5am - he wouldn't settle so we took him into our bed (so annoyed I broke one of my golden rules here!!!) and he fell asleep again eventually at about 5.45/6 for about 45mins/1hr. Thing is, the day before, he had a great night's sleep but fell asleep on the school run after about 3hrs???
Anyway, I'm waffling - here are a few days' EASY - I'm going to go back 4 days as Monday night was AWFUL!! I should say, whenever he wakes at night, I always give meds straight away - just in case it's teeth:
MONDAY
Sorry I don't have timings but I think he just had one nap this day so I put him to bed early
BT 6.10
NW 1am-4am only crying a little bit to start with but it escalated
NW 4.30
NW 5am
Gave up and put in our bed about 5.45to have his milk (he always has his morning milk in our bed) but he fell asleep after drinking it and slept til 6.30
TUES
WU 6.30
S 10ish woke at 45mins, sshed back to sleep, slept another 45 til 11.50. Very grumpy when he woke
S 2.30/40ish - 3.10ish in car and pram
BT 6.50
NO NWs
WEDS
WU 6.10
S 9ish on way back from school run. Transferred to cot. Slept about an hour in total. V happy when he woke.
S 13.25-14.05 v grumpy when he woke
S 18.45 stood up when I left the room so had to go and settle him but he went down fine
No NWS
THURS
WU 5.25
S 9.40-11.40 gave him milk as it had been 4hrs and he got v drowsy but was very lively once put in cot. Left him for a bit then went in and settled him v quickly. Woke him at 2hrs
S 16-16.15 in pram
BT 19.15 really didn't know what time to put him to bed so as he'd had a short nap I went for a 3 hr A time but maybe it should've been shorter? Went down fine
NW 2am - back to sleep v quick
NW 5am - then in bed with us slept another 45mins/1hr as described above
WU 6.45