My son just turned 9 months last week. He was an angel sleeper from 2-5 1/2 months -- 10 hours straight, up for 20 minutes to eat, and then asleep another two hours. Around 6 months he went through a few weeks where he was up every 2-3 hours. He went back to sleeping 12 hours at night with only 1-2 short wakings where he seemed very hungry. Just last week though he has been getting up every 1-2 hours and waking up between 5:30-6:30 (He used to sleep until 7:30). The question is -- where is the problem? I'm wondering if his three naps a day are partially to blame. I know that he might be teething, is now crawling forward (he's always gone backwards), stood by himself for the first time today, and can now pull himself up to a seated position. That alone is a lot. He's also been sick and can't breathe through his nose very well. But.... the naps. I'm wondering if he'd do better with just two. I looked at other people's routines and it always seems like there's a long gap between the waking from the second nap until bedtime. Right now we are doing:
6:30 awake and bf
9:00 nap
10:00 (if I'm lucky) and bf
12:30 nap
1:30 awake and bf
3:30 nap (usually his longest of the day)
5:00 up and bf
6:00 solids
6:45 bath, massage, bottle
Could I also not be feeding him enough solids? I'm getting pretty sleep deprived as I was up 5 times last night!!!! I woke up so frustrated with him and was so grateful when DH woke up so I could hand him our son and take a break. This is too much!!!! He was such a great sleeper and now he's a "monster sleeper" -- any advice or help would be greatly appreciated!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
