Another Question for GF followers

[Melly]

Sorry, me again with yet another question. Pupuce....I am relaxed and chilled honestly and quite chirpy after ds went from 11 pm last night to about 6.15 am this morning. My question is until they are able to stretch that final bit until 7 am how do you keep their sleeping on track as per the routines. I have tried to keep ds going this morning but have just put him up for a sleep as he was knackered....so I'm wondering what will happen as a result of this earlier morning nap. My guess is that he will sleep longer than the suggested 45 minutes and hopefully I can then get him back on track later on this morning. GF doesn't really address this in the book and I wondered how others have sorted this out. I treated the 6.15 am feed as a "day time" feed so maybe I should have tried putting him back to bed then, but he seemed very happy and alert.

That's what I did Melly ... I would leave DS for a bit of a longer first nap ... get him up at 9.30 am ... and get it back on track that way ...
He will get better ...
The only way I managed to stretch that early bit was to be strict about when I went into him ... I basically used to not go in until 6.30 at the latest ... and that wasn't too hard as I went in the shower at 6.15 (I was working then) and so would not hear him until I got out ...
How old is your DS btw??

Thanks Ghosty. DS is 7 weeks. I got him up at 9.45 this morning and managed to keep him going until 10 am for his bottle. That's the other problem, if you feed them at 6.30 am there's no way they can last out until 10.45 am as GF suggests, but I suppose you just have to tweak the routines until they are sleeping until 7 am. Trouble is this afternoon is all going to go horribly wrong as I have my post natal check at 2 pm so will have to disturb his lunchtime sleep, then he will fall asleep in the car on the way home. Will also have to disrupt dd's lunchtime sleep. Apparently at my surgery the post natal check ups are always booked at 2 pm.....what a stupid time, I would imagine the majority of babies are either sleeping or feeding.......probably the male GPs who decided on that time !!

I agree tweek to get back into it roughly. I did also treat 615 as a daytime feed.

I agree Melly ... it is annoying when important things crop up at bad times. I used to be very rigid about DS' routine up until he was about 2 and to be honest I did miss out on things because of it.
I hope to follow GF next time but also want to be more flexible ... well I have to be more flexible as I will need to take DS to kindergarten at 9am and need and pick him up at 12 and things like that ....

I only discoved the GF book when my dd was around 4 months, and found it too stressful to follow exactly. My dd (7.5 months) sort of fits into the GF routines but I don't turn down any social arrangments (ha ha ha ha, like I have any) I just tweak her feeds and naps slightly and she seems fine with it. Good book, but for me it is easier to relax a bit with the set timings for everything and go with the flow.

There will be days when the routine can't work.
I was quite strict with ds for the first 3 months or so and then he just stopped wanting to sleep at lunchtime until he was on solids (5.5 mths).
ds is now coming up for 9 months and as long as I keep the feeding times pretty much on track I find i'm more relaxed about sleeping - no more than 3 hours in a day and not after 5pm if he's to go down at 7pm.
In the beginning when ds just was too cranky to make it to the "proper" time for milk i would feed him earlier but try to get him to go longer by about 5 mins every day until he was "doing a gina".
Just before ds slept through (10 weeks) I would give him half his feed if he woke before 7am and let him wait till 7am for the other half, then treat that as "official" wke up time. (I snuck back to bed for dozy cuddles with dh)
Melly - on the days when you have a particularly sleepy ds, stick to the feed times but don't worry about an extra 10 mins sleep here and there - but not after 5pm.