Hello,
I feel silly asking this after months of being on EASY, but I remember reading that it takes our lo's 20 min. to fall into a deep sleep...so does this mean that I wait until I see he is settled and assume he's in this deep sleep in 20 more min? For example, if his eyes are closed and he's settled at 12:00, I actually assume it's 12:20 that he's asleep? So when he wakes up at 1:00, was this a 1 hour nap or a 40 minute nap? Dumb question, I'm sure, but I figure I better ask. ...
My ds is almost 7 mos. and he's starting to do the shorter naps (from reading other similar posts, this appears to be due to his need for longer A time) and I need to know when I can be sure he's asleep to gauge this correctly.
On that note of extending awake time, right now he's fussy/showing sleepy cues at only 2 hours from wake time consistently through the day. I've been adding 5-10 min. for the past week, but I can't seem to get him to 2.5 hours (which I know I need to get to for a baby his age.) Do I just keep pushing it and risk an overtired baby? Is it 5-10 min increments every couple days or 15 min that I push for?
Here's his routine the last week or two:
6am - wake and bottle feed 8 oz.
7am - solids (1-2 tsp max right now)
8am-8:15 - nap
9ish wakes then I get him back to sleep until about 9:45 or 10
10am - bottle feed 8 oz
12-12:15 nap
1ish wakes then I get him back to sleep until about 1:45 or 2ish
2ish - bottle feed 8 oz
3:45-4 cat nap (if I wait until after 4 to try to put him down, he won't settle)
4:30ish wakes
5:45-6ish dinner of 8 oz formula and solids
6:45-7 - bedtime
Any advice would be greatly appreciated...thanks in advance!
Chrissy
