my LO just started the 45 min nap thing, the last four days (he's almost 12 wks). he used to take a LOOONG first morning nap (2 hrs), and then started doing 45 min naps the rest of the day -- then yesterday, ALL his naps were 45 mins, so our EASY went kaput. i know he's only 2.5 months, but could he be ready for a 4 hr EASY? we just started transitioning last week into a 3.5 hr EASY because he stopped eating well at the 3 hr mark and started staying awake longer. he also started waking up in the morning at random times (anywhere from 5 to 7am), even though I feed him at the SAME TIME every night (9pm, working back right now every nite 10-15mins to hopefully eventually end at 7:30-8ish). The week before this, he was waking erratically at night, not hungry, but just waking up.
i'm confused mainly because i didn't think DS would be ready for a 3.5 EASY, but now he's hungry on the mark, every 3.5 hours. is this okay? he seems so young.. i just don't want to rush him into a 4 hour EASY.. and what do I do about these naps? Today, he had three 45 min naps and one 30 min nap, then bed around 8pm, DF at 9. I just feel like his 45 min naps and his increasing alertness have screwed up our whole EASY and I don't know where to begin.. (and not only alertness, but all the new noises he's making -- happy squeals and coos and all sorts of stuff -- it's made it hard to read his cues because he doesn't do the same noise for "tired" as he used to and i find that he's sometimes getting overtired). two days prior, he was having meltdowns at nighttime because his naps were so bad, but today, there was no meltdown. and should I stop changing the last feed at 9pm till we get the 3.5 hr EASY worked out?
sorry, lots of questions mixed up in there..
Jamie
