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Re: "typical" A time
« Reply #120 on: April 29, 2006, 12:39:53 pm »
You've managed to set your own bodyclock then Lauren!  Glad you had a few drinks - I hope your head doesn't hurt today.  How was Calum, chances are the little monkey slept through until 7.30am without you being there!
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Re: "typical" A time
« Reply #121 on: April 29, 2006, 12:54:47 pm »
Hi Kelly

He slept until 0645 (bedtime was 2010), this is a huge improvement  ;D

Just back from lunch at Brewsters (brewers fayre) he is obsessed with his new red balloon - I have tied it to the end of his cot  ::) (beats licking it  :-X)
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Re: "typical" A time
« Reply #122 on: April 29, 2006, 13:02:45 pm »
We got a red balloon at TGIs last week and Zander loved it too - he puts the end in his mouth and nods his head  ::)

I could never get Zander to a bedtime that late - we're stuck with 7pm to 6am I think!!
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Re: "typical" A time
« Reply #123 on: April 29, 2006, 13:05:56 pm »
Can you try and move it gradually 5 - 10 mins per night  :-\
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Re: "typical" A time
« Reply #124 on: April 29, 2006, 16:41:26 pm »
I don't think so - 7pm is a struggle and as it is I'm having to either put him in front of Baby Einstein or take him for a walk after his dinner to distract him until bathtime.  I don't mind really, it leaves me free for the evening fairly early on!  7pm is the bedtime which has always worked for him so I think it's what we should go with.  Maybe as he gets older he'll stretch a little longer.  Things could be much worse!!
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Re: "typical" A time
« Reply #125 on: April 29, 2006, 18:52:45 pm »
Ha - it's now 7.50pm and Zander is sat downstairs smiling away  :-\  He was knackered by 6pm so I gave him his bath and he had an almost 1 hour breastfeed (he has another cold and has hardly eaten all day so I think was making up for it).  He dozed whilst he was eating as he was so tired and I think when we woke him to put him to bed he thought he'd had a nap!  I tried getting him to sleep from 7.10pm to 7.45pm but he just wasn't up for it!!  God knows when he'll go to bed and what time he'll wake up tomorrow  ::)  And I missed Strictly Dance Fever ....
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Re: "typical" A time
« Reply #126 on: April 29, 2006, 19:22:56 pm »
aw, kelly. hope the night goes well. sounds like zander's taking the alternative bedtime in his stride, but i know it's harder on you  :( i tried to put theron down for a nap 50 minutes ago, and he's still in there just chatting away to himself. at this rate it will be time for lunch  ::)

maybe i should throw on some laundry while i have a spare minute ;)
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Re: "typical" A time
« Reply #127 on: April 29, 2006, 19:43:54 pm »
Calums in bed so I've just done my laundry, dishwasher, watered the garden and Calums bottles and just realised I had forgotten to have my tea (I did wonder why I was hungry  ::))  phew!! need a seat.
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Re: "typical" A time
« Reply #128 on: April 29, 2006, 19:47:24 pm »
it's tiring me out just reading your list!

my little guy finally fell asleep (after 3 hours awake!), so i think i need to find something yummy too. i'll be interested to see how long his nap is given his extended A time.
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Re: "typical" A time
« Reply #129 on: April 29, 2006, 20:15:29 pm »
So that's what it's like putting an over-tired baby to sleep!!!  He finally fell asleep at 8.20pm but it was very hard work - he had been up 5.5 hours afterall!  Bless him he can't seem to stop trying to crawl, the whole time he was crying for sleep but getting up on all fours and rocking.  His cold sounds awful too - it must be all of one week since he recovered from the last one.  Along with teething and a little separation anxiety it's no wonder the poor chap can't sleep  :(  Tonight and tomorrow morning will be interesting - I think if he wakes at 6am I'll have to have a serious attempt at getting him back to sleep because that's just not enough.  Hopefully going to Monkey World tomorrow so that should be interesting  :)
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Re: "typical" A time
« Reply #130 on: April 29, 2006, 20:20:15 pm »
aw, bless. there's probably so much going on in that little brain of his. i must confess, when theron is extremely overtired (and it's happened once in the past two months, when grandma was visiting, and refused to believe that he napped as he did, and surely he could just keep going provided we stimulated him  >:( ), i do nurse him to sleep, or at least, to almost sleep. it happens so rarely that i hope it isn't too much of a spoke in the BW wheel.

fingers crossed for a good night's sleep for both of you! theron's just slept 50 minutes after a 3 hour A time. or at least i can hear his legs thumping in the crib, no gurgles or squawks just yet  :)
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Re: "typical" A time
« Reply #131 on: April 29, 2006, 20:28:08 pm »
omg, i feel a total heel. i just changed theron's diaper, and it was more full of poop than it's been since we introduced solids. the little chap wasn't having a hard time settling for his nap earlier, it's just his diaper was full! eesh  :-[
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Re: "typical" A time
« Reply #132 on: April 29, 2006, 22:34:42 pm »
We've had weird A time today.  She is totally exhausted at 2 hours so we head for bed, finally get there at 2.5 hours and then she plays for 30 minutes in her crib.  So 3 hours of A time with one full hour of wind down.  That's weird.

when do you all do your wind down or do you have one?  Is it included in the total A time or is there extra time for sleep time?  Just curious as we are trying to figure this out. 
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Re: "typical" A time
« Reply #133 on: April 30, 2006, 05:53:48 am »
Morning all
We did 1945 - 0640 this morning, he woke happy and squealing - going to try for 8pm tonight.

Kate we have 10-15mins wind down, just as you described yesterday with Calum in his cot playing with softer toys, this is part of our 'A' time - I think she is just naturally extending her 'A' time.
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Re: "typical" A time
« Reply #134 on: April 30, 2006, 15:29:41 pm »
Hi ladies,

That sounds great, Lauren! We had 6.45pm-6am. He wanted feeding immediately, too. None of this diaper-changing nonsense.

Kate -- for the later A times, I normally take Theron into his room at about 1 hour 50, and tone things down. I close the drapes and have a lamp on, and we read several books. Depending on how much more I think he can take, I undress him down to his onesie and play with him on the floor; he rolls around looking at his aquarium, and plays with his feet. Once I think that he's really ready for bed (about 2 hours 20 right now), I put him on the diaper table and put his pj bottoms on, turn off the lamp, put some orajel on his gums, take him over to the crib while singing Twinkle Twinkle, and put him down. Sometimes it's five minutes till he's out. Yesterday it was 50 minutes, taking us to 3 hours A time (and only a 50 minutes nap!). There's always some raspberry blowing, gurgling, playing with his lovie, slamming feet, and sometimes some protest "are-you-coming-back-or-not" fussing.

It always surprises me that he can be rubbing his eyes out and yawning his head off, yet I put him down, and he'll keep himself awake for another half hour or so. Fingers crossed that he is extending his A time naturally!
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