is it possible I put him down too soon?

[Colesmom]

My lo was up early today (6am) and it threw off our schedule.  I'm trying to watch cues instead of going by the clock and we are working on going from 3 to 4 hour easy.  I started wind down 1.5 hours after last waking.  Normally 1.5 hours is easy for him, and because of the early start I wanted to extend his waking to 1.75 hours for the afternoon. 

If he wasn't ready to go to sleep until say 2 hours...would that cause a meltdown?  I just had the hardest time since Thursday getting him down.  25 minutes with lots of pupds.  normally i only need to shush/pat.

anyway, just curious, is it possible to put them down too soon?  or do you think i missed his window?  I'm just learning reading his cues.  Until thursday he had a paci and i hate to admit he was plugged up too often.

thanks for any help.
Traci

ps, how do you add the cool tickers?  and photos.  I tried to add a photo but it was too large.  anyone know how to shrink it to fit the required size?  thanks again

[15milner]

How old is he?

[Colesmom]

he'll be 5 months on sept 6

thanks

[Colesmom]

he was way overstimulated.  he screamed for 10 minutes straight and then just collapsed.  it's so hard reading his cues.  when he's overtired he's a happy go lucky giggly baby. how the heck am i supposed to figure it out :cry:

i think the problem is that he used to stay up longer but had the paci to soothe himself and he'd fall asleep in our arms so he had no problem letting go.  i think i'll cut him back to A of 1.5 hours and go from there.  I'll follow the 3 to 4 hour easy transition in the book to the letter!