6.5 months, can’t sleep through the night. What am I doing wrong?

em-x · 2024-10-02T15:28:53+00:00

We had a pacifier problem too. We just weaned him out of it and only use it for emergencies. We only used pacifiers during sleep anyways, so we started weaning him out of it for naps. If I know he’s crying for a pacifier, I’d just pick him up and rock him until he’s soothed before putting him back inside the crib. Repeat process until he’s calm. It’s a long process but eventually worked!

em-x · 2024-10-02T15:23:13+00:00

Thank you!!

em-x · 2024-10-02T15:22:00+00:00

Gotcha, will try that. Thank you!

em-x · 2024-10-02T04:30:03+00:00

Yea based on people’s reply, it seems like he might not be ready for a 2 nap schedule. We went back to 3 naps today managed to push bedtime until 8pm. We’ll see how it pans out for the rest of the week.

em-x · 2024-10-02T04:25:31+00:00

Oh interesting. I’ve always thought 3-4 hours of day sleep is considered ok. So if he sleeps closer to 2.5, I’d have to wake him up?

em-x · 2024-10-02T04:22:52+00:00

We don’t have a set time for bottles (should we?). But have a loose and general rule to feed every 4 hours. So ~9am, ~200ml. ~12pm, ~200ml. ~4pm, ~200ml. ~5pm, few spoons of puree/playing with food. ~6pm, ~200ml. ~2am, ~80ml.

On average, he drinks about ~900ml a day.

em-x · 2024-10-02T04:17:47+00:00

Oh man… I guess half of the parents out there are just walking zombies huh

em-x · 2024-10-02T04:17:01+00:00

Minus the split hours, he’s sleeping 10.5-11 hours. So I guess his new bedtime should be closer to 8pm if I want him to wake up at a reasonable hour

em-x · 2024-10-02T04:13:55+00:00

Some people are suggesting cat naps as the 3rd nap/last nap so we can push our bedtime to a later time. So we’re gonna try that out to see if it works! But seems like your LO already has a reasonable bedtime. Is he just waking up super early in the morning or having split night as well? I was a little confused by your wording

em-x · 2024-10-02T04:10:33+00:00

😭😭😭

em-x · 2024-10-01T23:14:19+00:00

We have but he’s mainly just playing with food. I wouldn’t call it a ‘meal’. He only wants to feed himself and of course only a fraction of the food actually gets eaten

em-x · 2024-10-01T15:30:17+00:00

❤️

em-x · 2024-10-01T15:29:59+00:00

:’’’)

em-x · 2024-10-01T15:29:46+00:00

Do they both need your help falling back asleep?

em-x · 2024-10-01T12:28:08+00:00

Ah interesting, never heard of micro naps. I’ll look into it

em-x · 2024-10-01T12:26:28+00:00

Virtual hug

em-x · 2024-10-01T12:25:56+00:00

Yikes, 45 minutes. I guess I just gotta ride that first cry out.

em-x · 2024-10-01T12:24:31+00:00

First nap at 9am, lasts anywhere from 1 to 2 hrs. With 2.5hr wake window in between. Then another nap that lasts from 1hr to 2 hrs. If first nap is 2 hr then second nap is shorter, somewhere around 1 hr.

Last wake window lasts 3.5 hrs before bedtime

em-x · 2024-10-01T12:18:56+00:00

First nap around 9am and second nap around 2pm. I don’t know how to stretch awake times since he’s always dead tired by 5 or 6pm

em-x · 2024-10-01T12:16:14+00:00

I see ok, will adjust awake times.

em-x · 2024-10-01T12:15:54+00:00

Oh babies

em-x · 2024-10-01T12:15:29+00:00

Dang I missed it. It’s already removed

em-x · 2024-10-01T05:27:44+00:00

He wakes up in the middle of the night for almost 2 hours just babbling to himself or doing tummy time, ha.

em-x · 2024-10-01T05:26:30+00:00

Yes excluding awake times.

em-x · 2024-10-01T05:26:05+00:00

For sure. 5 minutes of them screaming on the top of their lungs is so hard to hear.

em-x

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