Since he's up at 5:45 his first nap is usually at 8, then he'll sleep for 45 min then cried b/c he was hungry. Then he was up from 8:45-11 then sleep for 30 min., tried to extend but cried and cried; was up from 11:30-1:30, napped again from 1:30-3:00 only sleeping for an hour to an hour and 15, then kept burying his face in me and fussy so I put him back down at 4 and he went right to sleep. I put him down (I think) when he's tired. Am I supposed to keep him up? When he only gets a 30-45 min nap how is he supposed to stay up for 2+ hours? What am I supposed to do?
Things are getting worse. Today he woke at 4 so I fed him a dilluted 6 oz., he ate 4 of it. Then he woke at 5:20, quiet noise quiet noise until 5:30 then mantra until 5:45; I went in tried to put him back to sleep and by 6:15 was screaming bloody murder. I couldn't even sit quietly in his chair w/out him screaming b/c he didn't want to go back to bed. I took him out of the room at 6:30 and he was fine. Now I will only let him sleep 45 min first nap (Which he only will anyway b/c he'll be hungry), then how long am I supposed to keep him up? Won't he be tired after 1.5 hours at the most?
I don't understand; I've done everything you and Tracy have said and it's not working. What is my problem? I'm sure it's a possibility I might be reading his cues wrong, but he doesn't really show cues. I put him down when he buries his head in me, that's the only cue he shows. He will rub his eyes and pull at his ears but usually if I wait until then he goes down a lot harder, which doesn't that mean he's overtired? And when he gets up at 5:45, how can he not have 4 naps when he'll only sleep for 30-45 min. Sometimes when I don't know if he's hungry I'll try feeding him after he wakes and if he oly takes 2 oz. he's not hungry. So instead of getting him up should I be trying to put him back to sleep after his 30-45 min nap? I've never done that, I just assumed that once I got him up and tried to feed him it was too late to put him back to bed. That could be my problem.
Okay so he's been up since about 5:30, I'll have to put him down by 8; he'll only sleep for 45 min which means he'll be up at 8:45; feed/diaper change/play then won't he need to nap again around 11? Say 11-1 ideal. Then up for 2+ hours, nap at 3 or 3:30 for 30-45 min, then bed at 5:30-6:00? Is that what I should do? He's supposed to take two 2 hour naps, but if his morning nap is only 45 min won't that mess him up? His late afternoon nap I've been letting him sleep for an hour or more if he sleeps longer. Could that be my problem too? Their afternoon nap needs to be short? But usually it's worked out that he'll have 2+ hours to go after he wakes up from that nap so I let him sleep longer so he'll only have 2 or less hours before bed. Am I doing this all wrong? It's so hard now that he wakes so early. I still want to push back the wakeup.
