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Post by parma986 on Jan 3, 2018 9:36:27 GMT -6
10.5 weeks. Maybe that’s it? When I put him down he never works up to a cry. He will lay there jerking his arms all around and kicking his legs. And he’s not really grunting, I don’t even know how to describe his sounds. Just “Eh eh eh”. And he will do this for hours. Swaddled pisses him off too and he just works to free his arms. Last night I did notice that he settled “quickly” if I kept my hand on his chest. Not even jiggling him, just the weight I think. This may have already been suggested, but IIRC the Zen swaddle has a weighted middle section to mimic mama's hand on baby's chest. If he settles when you do that, you may consider picking one up. We went with the Loves to Dream swaddle, and other than the past few nights I mentioned in the Randoms thread this morning, DS is sleeping 8pm to 6am most nights. We have the Zen Swaddle. Seems to help get her to sleep initially- she started giving us a 4-5 hour stretch when we started using it. It's not until the middle of the night after one of her wake ups that she gets pissed about her arms and gets them up and out of the swaddle.
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Post by curmudgeon on Jan 3, 2018 10:12:03 GMT -6
mkrupar I didn’t know about the Zen swaddles so thank you for the suggestion. I’m looking them up now to see where I can pick one up because i think the weight would definitely help. Even for naps I put a heavier blanket on him so he feels that extra weight.
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Post by curmudgeon on Jan 10, 2018 15:04:05 GMT -6
Has anyone’s baby started taking long day time naps? This is day 3 or 4 of a 3+ hour afternoon nap. Today he woke at 8, short nap at 10, and has now been asleep since noon. It’s 3. He’ll be 3 months next week so is this his new schedule he chose?
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Post by doodlemommy on Jan 10, 2018 15:25:27 GMT -6
Has anyone’s baby started taking long day time naps? This is day 3 or 4 of a 3+ hour afternoon nap. Today he woke at 8, short nap at 10, and has now been asleep since noon. It’s 3. He’ll be 3 months next week so is this his new schedule he chose? Mine used to do this but now has started sleeping only like max 1 hr unless I’m holding him or in the car. He will be 3 months Friday. What sorcery did you use to get this to happen? I want in.
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Post by cythe on Jan 10, 2018 15:32:01 GMT -6
I've heard rumors of this fabled 3-4 hour nap thing. Mine has never in her life taken a nap of that length. We are 45-60 minutes max, like clockwork.
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Post by curmudgeon on Jan 10, 2018 15:45:51 GMT -6
Maybe it’s a growth spurt? Lol I didn’t post to brag, promise! Since we have such an age gap I can’t remember when an actual schedule happens. I’m sure this will be short lived. He tricks me with a routine for about half a week and then changes it up.
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Post by cythe on Jan 10, 2018 16:25:40 GMT -6
Maybe it’s a growth spurt? Lol I didn’t post to brag, promise! Since we have such an age gap I can’t remember when an actual schedule happens. I’m sure this will be short lived. He tricks me with a routine for about half a week and then changes it up. Dude, brag it up haha. And yes mine does the same thing, I think we are getting a normal thing going on and she throws a curve ball.
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Post by arimaythea on Jan 10, 2018 17:13:55 GMT -6
Mine will take a long nap if he's being held. Not if put down though. I got some 3 hour naps this weekend from him.
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Post by versed on Jan 10, 2018 19:29:15 GMT -6
My LO had 3-4 days of really long naps, and after that period he was suddenly more alert, more interactive, and more playful - I feel like he went through a major leap. Now he's back to shorter naps and being awake longer in between. We've also started carrier naps because he won't sleep more than 10min if I put him down.
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Post by gamergirl on Jan 10, 2018 22:36:30 GMT -6
DD usually takes her long nap around the same time as DS takes his. She'll fall asleep about a half hour before I put him down for nap. She will wake up a couple times, but nurses right back to sleep, and will usually sleep the entire time DS does (2-2.5 hrs in the afternoon). Other than that, she only takes a couple 30 min. cat naps (one morning, one evening) during the day. She naps on me most of the time, but sometimes she takes part of her long nap in the RNP.
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Post by Taitai on Jan 11, 2018 0:29:53 GMT -6
My LO had 3-4 days of really long naps, and after that period he was suddenly more alert, more interactive, and more playful - I feel like he went through a major leap. Now he's back to shorter naps and being awake longer in between. We've also started carrier naps because he won't sleep more than 10min if I put him down. +1
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Post by thatgirlrachel on Jan 11, 2018 4:06:20 GMT -6
Since the Christmas break DS has been taking longer afternoon naps. He’ll sleep from around 2-4. Sunday he slept a little over 3 hours. That was a nap on me, but at MIL’s he’ll nap by himself.
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Post by mkrupar on Jan 13, 2018 0:55:06 GMT -6
Yeah DS (4 months) has fallen in to the short morning nap, long afternoon nap (which nicely coincides with DD's nap) and another catnap in the evening.
He sometimes has more alert days and more sleepy days depending on his needs.
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Post by Taitai on Jan 28, 2018 23:21:43 GMT -6
Bumping this one. Has anyone started to get their LO to sleep unswaddled? My guy is 3.5 months and between the woombie swaddle and the dockatot, he sleeps pretty darn well at night. I'm terrified to attempt a non-swaddle situation and screw everything up.
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Post by bootsorhearts1 on Jan 28, 2018 23:59:28 GMT -6
Taitai I am wondering the same. Of course she’s already sleeping like crap so maybe I should take the opportunity to break the swaddle. If I remember right from my older kid, it was 2-3 really shitty nights but then he was back to his normal sleep patterns.
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Post by trinitrotoluene on Jan 29, 2018 0:14:24 GMT -6
I did one nap like 2 weeks ago with one arm out. That nap was 10 minutes and i haven't tried again.
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Post by seventythree on Jan 29, 2018 11:44:55 GMT -6
We've been sleeping unswaddled since...some time between 2 and 3 months (she's 4 months now). Kid just wasn't having it, she's happier with the goalpost arms. Or hands in her face. Or the dreaded 3am jazz hands...but she was either pissed off or busting out of her swaddles anyway, yanno? Pretty sure we did this with DD1 around 3 months, we didn't do anything special but I think they do make sleep sacks designed to help with the transition.
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Post by cythe on Jan 29, 2018 11:48:22 GMT -6
Taitai I am wondering the same. Of course she’s already sleeping like crap so maybe I should take the opportunity to break the swaddle. If I remember right from my older kid, it was 2-3 really shitty nights but then he was back to his normal sleep patterns. Sorry to keep quoting you, but we basically have the same baby right now. My theory is also "everything is borked so why not". So far we are 1 arm out but only because 2 arms out = floppy arms on transfer to the crib and she wakes.
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Post by bootsorhearts1 on Jan 29, 2018 12:20:47 GMT -6
seventythree lol @ goalpost arms! cythe I was talking this weekend to a dad of three boys and he said about 4 months is when the wheels fell off the bus with all his kids and they didn’t start sleeping better until 6-8 months. So not helpful sir.
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Post by duskymonkey on Jan 29, 2018 23:55:02 GMT -6
seventythree lol @ goalpost arms! cythe I was talking this weekend to a dad of three boys and he said about 4 months is when the wheels fell off the bus with all his kids and they didn’t start sleeping better until 6-8 months. So not helpful sir. I am chuckling at this. SaveSave
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Post by duskymonkey on Jan 30, 2018 0:01:17 GMT -6
I am on the team of if it ain't broke don't fix it! If baby isn't rolling over...I wouldn't attempt unswaddling. Lil fella over here definitely definitely definitely cannot be unswaddled. He'd smack and slap himself awake. I daren't even try napping unswaddled. DS wasn't as bad and we actually were able to nap unswaddled around 3 months and transitioned him using a zipadeezip and it went smoothly. Lil fella over here flails around way to much plus he's not rolling over yet so I'll keep him swaddled for as long as we can get away with it.
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Post by bootsorhearts1 on Jan 30, 2018 2:41:03 GMT -6
What is sleep?
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Post by cythe on Jan 30, 2018 6:43:39 GMT -6
I DON'T FUCKING KNOW Sorry, that was aggressive.
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Post by thatgirlrachel on Jan 30, 2018 7:13:09 GMT -6
Taitai, I'm glad you bumped this with that question because I've been thinking strongly about the transition too. DS only swaddles at night, never for naps. I have no idea if that will make his transition easier or not. He's in the middle, or hopefully tail end, of the 4 month regression so once he gets past that I'm going to try taking him out of the swaddle. I'm nervous because he sleeps well for the most part, but I figure if he can nap unswaddled for long periods, then it shouldn't be hard to learn to be unswaddled at night.
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Post by Taitai on Jan 30, 2018 7:28:40 GMT -6
thatgirlrachel duskymonkey bootsorhearts1 trinitrotoluene seventythree cythe Thanks for the responses! I'm so torn on what to do. Baby has been sleeping so well and isn't rolling over. He is too fat and lazy for that I think 😂. He's 3.5 months now, so I think I'll give it another month and see. If he starts rolling, then I guess we'll have to do something. I just know that if it wasn't for the woombie containing his arms, he'd be smacking himself all night and waking up constantly. DNW. Guess I'll kick this can down the road a bit longer.
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Post by thatgirlrachel on Jan 30, 2018 7:34:02 GMT -6
thatgirlrachel duskymonkey bootsorhearts1 trinitrotoluene seventythree cythe Thanks for the responses! I'm so torn on what to do. Baby has been sleeping so well and isn't rolling over. He is too fat and lazy for that I think 😂. He's 3.5 months now, so I think I'll give it another month and see. If he starts rolling, then I guess we'll have to do something. I just know that if it wasn't for the woombie containing his arms, he'd be smacking himself all night and waking up constantly. DNW. Guess I'll kick this can down the road a bit longer. I'm mostly on team "if it's not broke don't fix it" too. DD was never swaddled so I'm like a FTM with this. Everything I read says around 3-4 months, but that some babies may want/need to go much longer. My OTA friend did warn me that swaddling too long can affect baby's development/milestones, so I've kept that in the back of my head as well.
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Post by doodlemommy on Jan 30, 2018 11:11:24 GMT -6
DD was swaddled for longer than she probably should have been. We transitioned her out at like 5.5/6 months once she was rolling back to belly. We had tried several times prior and it was an epic failure. DS is the total opposite. We tried swaddling him once, he hated it, and we haven’t swaddled him since. He sleeps with his arms up/by his face and is cool with it. Yesterday he was sleeping holding his ear
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Post by versed on Jan 30, 2018 20:45:21 GMT -6
DS1 wasn’t a huge swaddle fan, but we moved into the Merlin sleep suit at 4m.
DS2 was a swaddle junkie - he needed it every nap and every night for a while longer than we should have, moving down to just swaddling his arms before dropping totally.
DS3 is doing the Swaddle Up just at night, and it works like a charm. Once he outgrows the M size (in one lb), we’ll move him to the L 50/50 where you can swaddle one arm out at a time before transitioning to just the sack.
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Post by versed on Feb 4, 2018 19:48:48 GMT -6
So, I tracked the baby’s sleep and wake times today to see if there’s a pattern that we can start following day to day. I remember doing the intervals with my older boys where you could pretty much predict when they would go back asleep depending on when they woke up.
DS3 had five naps today, 40-95min. I guess he should be at 3 naps by now. This isn’t a problem, since we’re home. But I wouldn’t mind some predictability.
How is everyone else doing on nap counts?
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Post by curmudgeon on Feb 4, 2018 20:48:19 GMT -6
I haven’t kept an actual log, but he typically takes a 45-60 minue nap every 2 hours. I wrote it out and it came out to be 3 naps for an average day. Then he throws a curve ball like today and naps from 2-5:30.
How long are your babies staying up in between naps? Mine is still 1-2 hours awake. Once he hits the 2 hour mark I better get him down fast or he’s inconsolable.
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