Hi ladies!
My 4mo DH is SLOWLY adapting to EASY as she's LSN and has been ahead of average A times since forever. Her naps are still a bit hit and miss (especially as I find reading her cues and A times so difficult) but we do have days where we follow a 4hr EASY to the letter...until catnap time. I'm starting to dread this part of the day.
By the time she's ready for this little nap it's 5/5.30/6 and it's not possible for me to head out for a drive at this time. I've attempted the pram and ergo with no luck! Most of the time I have to put her in her cot and she will SCREAM for a good 15+ minutes before falling asleep for 30 minutes. If I do get the nap in, bedtime is still a disaster and I find she wakes more overnight.
I'd get rid of it completely except she can't last 3 hours and I can't put her down at 5.00!! I'm trying to avoid feeding to sleep so she'll be falling asleep on the bottle and I'll wake her to burp, swaddle and have a shush/pat and then she's wide awake and cries for ages and I then pat her to sleep but her A is then ridiculous!
A good day and night was yesterday and today!
NF: 10.30
NF: 4.30
WU: 6.30 or earlier laying quietly or chatting away
OOB: 7.00
E: 8.00. Breakfast. I completely skipped milk since I'm sick of fighting her and instead gave her some baby porridge and Apple (made with formula) that she smashed
A
S: 8.48; 8.55-10.55. OOB 11.00
E: 11.00 full bottle!
E: bit of solid for lunch
A:
S: 1.10; 1.20-3.20
E: 3.30 full bottle
A:
S: the most difficult sleep EVER! went out to the park and pushed her around in the pram (no luck), drove home and after a cry she fell asleep 10 mins at the absolute max from 5.45-5.55 roughly.
E: 6.15. A little rice cereal and some fruit
A: bath, massage, pj's
E: 6.50.
BT: 7.13; asleep 7.35. Quietly chatting and drifting off.
NW: 3.48. Woke happy? Then crying escalated so i fed her
WU. 6.35, chatting and happy but fell back to sleep at 6.55! Woke her at 7.20
E: 7.30, 50ml top up
A:
S: 9.30; cried during wind down but quiet in my arms shush/pat then cried and fussed in bed. Slept from 9.35 but was awake when I checked the monitor at 10.20. Laying awake, no crying but has the hiccups! Amazingly she managed to fall asleep again by herself from 10.40-11.20!
Do you think I have her A time WAY off? Has she extended already or do I need to pull A time back? Hmmm, coupled with the catnap issue I'm SO confused. Perhaps she thought the additional morning sleep falling back to sleep at 7am was her first nap? I wasn't sure what to do there.
HOWEVER! Not so great days include naps no greater than 30 or 40 minutes and awake crying and me trying to settle DH for hours! I'm at a real loss and can't wait for her to drop it so we can get a good 2 naps going for a while!
Sorry, would love your thoughts! Thanks in advance.
Laura
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