Daytime Naps? - no thanks Mummy...and stuff the nightime sleep too!!

[MammaVee]

I have finally decided that my DS is not a massive daytime napper - he does about 40 mins to and hour in the moring, luchtime and afternoon - not too bad really. He has always been pretty good at sleeping from 7pm until 11pm then I do a final feed (all bottle) and he sleeps until 7.30am. All sounds good right?

Well now its all going downhill rapidly! It is getting harder and harder to get DS to nap during the day and he is starting to wake up every 20 mins between 7pm and 11pm for goodness knows what reason (might be dummy related although he usually likes to spit that out as soon as his eyes shut) and last night I was seeing to him every hour during the night.

Any advice? Is 19 weeks too young to let him fuss it out by himself and see if he can drift off? Is this type of regression common in circa 5 month olds? Has anyone else ever dealtwith this? Could it be time for solids?

could be slightly delayed 4month regression? Mine is a terrible sleeper and napper some days(like today!)
iand solids didnt make a blind bit of difference!
Can he self settle?starting to roll over,sit up crawl? Any major developmental turns can keep them awake.. H.t.h.

Thanks brokensleeper, this kind of kicked off round the 16 week mark so think its all part of the regression thing. He is starting to try and rollover and getting frustrated that he cant do it quite yet - so maybe thats it. He is in bed right now having a good old chat to himself with no dummy, so I am determined to let him try and dropoff himself, although I am developing a twitch sitting here ha ha. Just antoher phase in the babygame I guess!!

We had the same thing although not to the same degree, a lovely sleeper suddenly pushed over the applecart and it all went tits up. It might be a tiny bit too young to let him fuss it out (what does the health visitor say?) although you could try it.

What worked for us (takes it down to a low whisper) starting solids at 22 weeks... but you didn't hear that from me. And sleep training.

Loobyloo1902 what is sleep training exactly? I think I have figured out the problem - it seems instead of spitting out his dummy after he drops off he is keeping it in, then when he gets to a light sleep he realises its missing and gets agitated. I knew I should have never started using a dummy!!! I have 2 options in my eyes - run around like an idiot and pop his dummy back in, or pick him up and do the shush pat type method until he drops off - I agree I think he is too young to cry it out.

Maybe change your routine to fit him now as babies change all the time?

My DS2 is 19 weeks and about 3 weeks ago his whole pattern changed, assuming it's the 4 month sleep regression thing.

He used to nap in his chair for about 40 mins - an hour 3/4 times a day.

Now he wakes at 5am (did that before), sleeps in the buggy on the school run from about 9ish-12 ish, then awake until I go back on the school run and he sleeps again for another hour, sometimes 2. But I leave him in the buggy and put himn in the back garden - he just seems to sleep better outside . But then my eldest did too.

Then DS2 goes to sleep about 7-8pm, wakes for a feed about 11pm, sometimes another feed about 2am! Than up again at 5am!

Just go with the flow, he will settle back into a new routine, just frustrating in the mean time.

I'm currently having a similar issue with my DD, we passed the 4 month regression completely unscathed. Don't think we're getting off with the 7 month one AT ALL!!

She's gone from napping for about an hour 3 times a day to refusing to nap full stop unless in the car!!!! I wouldn't mind if she didn't nap and was happy enough but she's fit for nothing all day and just cries constantly :( Tis very distressing especially being used to a very happy, contented, good sleeping baby! Hopefully this will pass in time. Sorry can't offer any constructive advice as it's new to me too!

Sleep training for us was a book the HV gave me, sorry I passed it on but I can ask the HV for details. We started at 5 1/2 months and it's simply teaching baby to go to sleep without aids. In short, you create a safe environment for baby to go to sleep then let them get on with it. The method is similar to controlled crying so won't be suitable for all babies and parents but for us, it worked in three nights. Now she sleeps through all night, every night plus 2-3 naps during the day.

PM me for details and I'll look them up x