I'd love to get to uploading the pictures from our trip - I'd also love to eat lunch, wash the piles of laundry all over our apartment and hmmm take a shower. BUT, unfortunately someone has taken Owen and replaced him with a mess of a baby who won't nap. AT. ALL.
I think Karma has finally caught up with me. My angel baby who took no less than TWO, TWO HOUR NAPS is now boycotting everything.
He has been trying to drop his second nap since ~10 months. I was trying to play it by ear depending on when he woke up. After 9 - one nap from 1145-245. Before 830 he got two naps, one from 10-12 and one from 4-530ish. But the two nap days were screwing up bedtime and he was up until almost 10pm, leaving no time at all for me to spend with Jeremy (awake, anyway).
We've been traveling for the past month so I didn't freak out. In North Carolina he was waking up at 730 and taking one if not two great naps - nothing consistent but he was well rested and his sweet, normal self.
When we got back he got sick and pretty much slept all day long on me and was up most of the night.
Then we went to Virginia Beach where he was getting up between 450-6am every day. Fun vacation right? Jeremy and I would take turns getting up with him. We tried EVERYTHING to get him to go back to sleep but nothing worked. His naps were sporadic and by the end of the week he was a cranky mess.
We thought coming home might fix things but the same thing is happening.
He wakes up at 645 and then around 715 starts in saying, "night, night" over and over again. I try to wait until at least 845 to put him down. He's been taking an hour nap (if that) and then is up FOR THE DAY. I try to put him down again at 230 or 3 and even though he falls asleep nursing he won't nap. Then he wants to go to bed at 6pm. None of this is working for ANY of us.
Today when he got up at 645 I didn't go to him when he called for me. He laid back down and eventually went back to sleep until 845. He started saying, "night, night" at 11 but we had friends over for a playdate so he couldn't go down until 1230. Fell asleep nursing and woke up at 1 crying. NO NAP.
All of this would be fine if he were THAT KID who can go from noon-7 without a nap but HE IS NOT. We are in an overtired cycle where all he does is cry (my baby? cry?) and fuss and say, "night, night" ALL DAY LONG.
Like right now, "Mama, night, night. Night, night. NIGHT! NIGHT! NIGHT! NIGHT! NIGHT!"
I took him to Costco yesterday and all he said the entire time was "night, night" - the sample ladies kept saying, "wow looks like he's telling you he wants a nap."
I almost traded my baby for a chicken nugget at Costco.
HELP! I'm open to suggestions, trade agreements or cash offers. Thanks.
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Is there any magic bullet that gets him to sleep? Stroller, car, sling? If so, do that for a day or two (not three because three days is the magic number where it becomes a habit--at least at my house.) Anyway, do the magic bullet for two days to get him rested. Then try to go back to a schedule.
ReplyDeleteif there is no magic bullet, I got nothing except sympathy.
no magic bullet. The only place he USED to nap is in his crib. Now he won't even do that.
ReplyDeleteIs it possible to keep him up till about 11 a.m.? (I know, that's hours after 7:45) Most babies that are on a one nap schedule go down sometime between 11 am and 1 pm (depending on age) and sleep for 1-3+ hours. Maybe he's trying to change over to one nap and is having trouble. Keeping him up till 11 a.m. (if possible) might get him on the schedule he needs.
ReplyDeleteYeah on the days he gets up at 8 or 830 I have no problem putting him down for one nap around 1145. But once he is over tired and getting up at 645am -- I can't even keep him up till 9am!
ReplyDeleteack, this one is hard. c wakes EVERY DAY in the 6 o'clock hour. 4 days a week when he's home with me, he is then ready for a nap around 9:30...sleeps til 10:30 or 11...then up until 2:30 and down until about 4. bed at 7:30.
ReplyDeleteon daycare days, he wakes in the 6 o'clock hour and is then not given a nap at school until 12:30. he never sleeps longer than 90 minutes so the baby i bring home is a tired crankpot, but it's just 3 days, so i've been okay with it.
travel can really throw our little ones off. he's just off his schedule...so if you've ever wanted to change it, now's the time.
if he gets up at 6:45, that makes sense to me that he'd want to go down around 9. then, an afternoon nap as well. if you only want him on one nap, i'd say - no matter what time he wakes, keep him so uber-stimulated (like they do with connor at daycare) that he crashes hard around noon or so, and takes one long afternoon nap. just depends on if you want him on one nap or two...and what works best for your family.
eventually kev & i need to get c on a schedule like daycare has him on - with just one nap - it's just a matter of getting him there.
owen sounds exhausted...i know he'll get back to his sleep schedule soon. hang in there, mama! you'll sleep again soon, too! xoxo
another thought - perhaps wait a few days before getting him back on his schedule, and spend the next few days focused solely on getting him to rest. make no plans. stick close to home. follow his lead and every time he says "night, night", put him down. once he's rested, it'll be easier to get him on a schedule. :)
ReplyDeleteIs he possibly teething? Try something to numb his gums mid-morning?
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