enough's enough im trying a routine!
After leaving Max do his own thing ive decided he might benefit from a routine as he gets so bloody grizzly some days and it's because he's over tired, his favourite hobby is sleep fighting!!
I got a book from the library that had an interesting section on napping, thought you may find it helpful:
generally-
-first nap should be 2 hours after getting up and last 90mins
-second nap around lunchtime for 2 hours
-third nap late afternoon for 30 mins
Baby shouldn't be awake much longer than 2hours before taking a nap and last nap should end 2 hours before bad.
So far today, Max has slept for 30mins and grizzled the rest of the morning!! lol! got a feeling this is going to be a waste of time but worth a shot for a contented baby!xx
I got a book from the library that had an interesting section on napping, thought you may find it helpful:
generally-
-first nap should be 2 hours after getting up and last 90mins
-second nap around lunchtime for 2 hours
-third nap late afternoon for 30 mins
Baby shouldn't be awake much longer than 2hours before taking a nap and last nap should end 2 hours before bad.
So far today, Max has slept for 30mins and grizzled the rest of the morning!! lol! got a feeling this is going to be a waste of time but worth a shot for a contented baby!xx
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The nap times you gave are interesting though I might try and put them into practice as I so want to get him into a routine when he decides he wants to!
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Amelia too gets over tired and the amount of times she fulls asleep whilst having her bedtime bottle.
Good luck with your routine - Try not to get too worked up about it, I used to fret if Amelia wasn't doing something the book said she should be - A relative of mine reminded me that babies can't read!!!
Marnb, I am so sorry! You have my every sympathy. Occasionally Peter just refuses to sleep at all during the day and it is absolutely exhausting! I hope Emma starts napping for you soon.
xxx
They were only for 30mins each and i followed his lead as to when he wanted to sleep. The afternoon nap he really put up a fight against so i let him sleep on me and he slept for a good 2 hours.
Ive just put him to bed and instead of crying for an hour he cried for 10mins and is now flat out(touchwood!)
Im going to stick with it-the main thing im trying to do is not keep picking him up when he grizzles, i do when he really starts crying but when he's just grizzling i either leave him or pat him.
Just the sleeping through the night to tackle next-ha ha, yeah right!!x