E - 7:00
A - (solids around 8:30)
S - 10-11
Y
E - 11:00
A - (solids around 12:30)
S - 2:30-3:30 (more like 3:15 most days)
Y
E - 3:30
A
S - we're still working on dropping the catnap...sometimes he sleeps for 10 min around 5-5:30, sometimes he doesn't sleep at all which results in cranky baby by bedtime.
Y
E - 6:00 solids
A - bath around 7:00 then bottle of EBM
S - asleep by 7:30
He sleeps through the night.
I can't seem to ever get him to nap for more than an hour and I don't know if we'll be able to completely drop the catnap til he does. This is his ideal schedule. Most days he sleeps for 1hr-1hr 10 min. in the morning and more like 45-55 minutes in the afternoon. If I can get him to wake up from his afternoon nap between 3:45-4:00 it would be perfect and he wouldn't need another nap before bed, unfortunately, that rarely happens, lol...he is usually awake by 3:15. I've tried nursing him before this nap because I thought maybe he was waking up due to hunger but the result is always the same. Believe it or not, this is a drastic improvement over how things were. I don't think he slept longer than 35 minutes during the day once between 2 1/2 months and 5 months old yet he's been sleeping 11-12 hours at night since 3.5 months.
Today though, he woke at 6:45, went down for his nap at 9:45 and was awake by 10:15. He talked to himself in his crib til 10:30 when he started crying so I got him up then. He fell asleep in the car on the way home from getting groceries for 10 mintues, was CRANKY when we got home. I tried putting him down around 1:30-ish, but he had no interest in napping then and he didn't go down until 2:15 (I NEVER know when to put him down when he gets those quick naps in the car!) and he only slept 30 minutes. He woke up cranky again so I went ahead and fed him. He kept falling asleep nursing so I finally just nursed him laying down and let him fall asleep that way (bad I know!) but he needed the sleep and I couldn't get him to take a decent nap otherwise...he slept from 3-4 and was happy til bedtime.
He's also had a lot of trouble settling for naps lately. I used to rock him a little, lay him down and he'd fall asleep on his own (he had been doing this since about 3.5 months) Now he fights me every step of the way. I can get him calm in the livingroom by reading him a book and singing to him. He starts to get a good daze so I think it's time to go rock him for a little and put him down, but the second I walk into his room he goes crazy. He starts screaming and I end up walking him around the house for awhile, then put him down, screaming, and pat his butt til he falls asleep. It's exhausting and it's been taking 20-30 minutes to get him down (45 on a bad day) when it used to take less than 15. Anyways, I know this is longwinded! I'd appreciate any help I can get!!!
