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MrsM
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does your 4 month old take 4 hr naps!and still is sooo fussy at night!
I am wondering why my ds is so sleepy.
his schedule is as follows:
sleeps 10-7AM
7AM - 5 oz
sleeps 8-9AM
9:30 - 5 oz
sleeps 10:30 - 2:30
2:30 - 5.5 oz
then is cranky the rest of the afternoon/night..taking little naps and eating every 2 1/2 hrs until bedtime @ 8:30...but fusses until around 10..then sleeps 9 hrs.
does anyone think i should try to schedule him?
any thoughts?
he was a month early if that matters
Message edited 6/7/2006 6:57:33 PM.
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sunny
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Re: does your 4 month old take 4 hr naps!
Can't help, but good luck.
DD slept a lot at 4 months too.
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| Posted 6/7/06 6:35 PM |
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nrthshgrl
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Re: does your 4 month old take 4 hr naps!
From the schedule it looks like he's sleeping too much in the morning & not enough in the afternoon. I'll try to find the schedule that I wrote up for DH to watch Joseph one day & post for you.
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| Posted 6/7/06 6:42 PM |
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aja
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Re: does your 4 month old take 4 hr naps!and still is sooo fussy at night!
2:30 till 10 sound like a long time without a nap...at about 4 months Antonio would take a nap about 2-3 houts of being awake. Maybe you should break up that long nap I don't knowhow though
Have you tried moving up bedtime?
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| Posted 6/7/06 8:27 PM |
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CheeChee
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Re: does your 4 month old take 4 hr naps!and still is sooo fussy at night!
Yeah that 4 hr nap seems way long. He def needs another one between 2:30 and 10. Jacob naps 3x a day, usually after 2-3 hrs of wake time. He cannot go any longer than that. Jacob is 5 months old and i know they say at 4 months old babies cannot stay awake for more than 2 hrs at a stretch.. that is the reason for his fussiness in the eve. I would say you either have to cut that long nap in half and give another one in the mid afternoon, or move bedtime up to like 7pm ish... good luck...
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| Posted 6/7/06 8:32 PM |
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MrsM
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Re: does your 4 month old take 4 hr naps!and still is sooo fussy at night!
Posted by nrthshgrl
From the schedule it looks like he's sleeping too much in the morning & not enough in the afternoon. I'll try to find the schedule that I wrote up for DH to watch Joseph one day & post for you.
that would be great. I just read that I shouldnt be letting him nap only in the swing or stroller...I think the moving swing for 4 hours wasn't helping ! 
I just got him down for his first nap in his crib...we'll see!
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| Posted 6/8/06 9:04 AM |
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btrflygrl
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Re: does your 4 month old take 4 hr naps!and still is sooo fussy at night!
maybe you should wake him from that 4 hr nap and give him an earlier bedtime?
I'm reading Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy children and it makes SO much sense.
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| Posted 6/8/06 9:10 AM |
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beachgirl
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Re: does your 4 month old take 4 hr naps!and still is sooo fussy at night!
All I can say is I am soooooooooooo jealous..my DD is 4mhts also and the most I can get her to nap during the day is half hour in the morning, a half hour in the afternoon and then she wakes 4 times for feeds once she goes to bed!!!
Maybe I need to get this book too...
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| Posted 6/8/06 9:14 AM |
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MrsM
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Re: does your 4 month old take 4 hr naps!and still is sooo fussy at night!
Funny...we have had the same book since he was born...and never opened it!
last night I read it for an hour or so...makes allot of sense...he was eyeing the swing, but I wouldn't give in! I put him in the crib and it has been an hour! I'll see if he is happier later on....
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| Posted 6/8/06 9:16 AM |
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NJmom
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Re: does your 4 month old take 4 hr naps!and still is sooo fussy at night!
Posted by MrsM
Funny...we have had the same book since he was born...and never opened it!
i wish i had read it sooner too! I just got it last week and in less than a week after reading it, DS started taking real naps and sleeping through the night for the 1st time. and i think he's starting to fall into a schedule. good luck! i hope it works for you too!
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