Tuesday, January 3, 2012

My son will NOT nap!!! Some advice please! ( a lil long)?

Actually I should have said my son will not SLEEP!!! He is 7 months old. He takes less then 3 hours of naps during the day, and wakes up 3 times at night! He goes to bed around 9, wakes for a bottle around 11, 2, and 5. He then wakes up usually around 8. He "naps" anywhere from 25 minutes-an hour and a half sometime between 10 and noon. He will then "nap" again could be 25 minutes could be an hour long sometime around 1:30 or 2. He will then take a snooze usually about 35-40 minutes around 4. I feel like I can NOT get him to sleep. As an infant we did (and still do) co-sleep but only at night time. During the day he always took naps on his own. But he's always been a baby that fell asleep eating. And then he would be laid in his swing, which he has outgrown. He weaned himself from the and pacifiers at 5 months right before he got his first 2 teeth. I had no problem establishing a nap/sleep routine with our daughter when she was an infant and we did all the same things. SHe did sleep in her crib more at night, but I still co-sleep with him because he already wakes up 3 times a night to eat (and he chugs a full 6 oz bottle each time (so he's deff hungry). If I didn't he;d wake up sooo much more. I have eveb let him "cry" for a bit and checking on him ect, but he will go forever and I'll go in comfort him ect and he'll be sweating he gets so worked up. SOmeone please help!!! He's going in his crib all night starting tonight. But aside from that how can I help him establish a nap routine? My daughter really did it all on her own she would eat then nap but it was 2-3 good long naps a day at this age. He doesn't even seem over tired or exhausted at all.

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