45 minute waking

LittleN, I know what you mean about the crankiness. It's frustrating! I have a bad feeder too, and I am constantly worried that him not sleeping will end up making him not eat well. You can't win!

Yesterday (after I posted that his sleeps were good) he only did 45min blocks all day. He got super cranky and short-tempered by the end of the day, but not much I could do about it. He seems to be making up for it today (though I shouldn't say that as I will probably jinx it again!).

One thing I learnt with Jackson (and we had some HUGE issues) is that worrying and fretting doesn't change anything. I can only say that in hindsight, at the time I near drove myself crazy with the concern and worry. In the end, the huge majority of babies will work out just fine and if you can adopt a relaxed attitude you'll enjoy bubs and being a mum a lot more. I am not preaching - I am still working on that attitude myself this time round, but I do find the less I care and therefore the less I worry, the easier it is to cope.

I agree with everyone! My wee girl slept for 2-2.5 hours during the day until I took the dummy away at 5 months. Then her sleeps became 20-45mins or not at all!! We've now got a routine going of around 45mins twice a day. If we get an hour or more at a time that's awesome but I'm no longer stressing about it as its not worth it!!

I think if you can go with the flow that makes a huge difference as I was getting pretty stressed about it. But all good now!! Famous last words ..... :-)

We also have a 45 min catnapper, on bad days its only 30 min naps as well (argggh). He has always been a crap day sleeper, would sleep for hours when he was younger but would have to be rocked, bounced etc to keep him asleep due to wind. He is now 6 months old and wind is no longer an issue so I'm getting him to have his naps in his cot. I'm just going with the flow (sometimes he has 4 naps a day) and hoping that things get better as he gets older.

Bobchannz that is what I have been doing, going in and shushing or patting, waiting till he closes his eyes and then leaving again but sometimes I will have to go back 3 or 4 times before he stays asleep. It's weird though, he will wake after 45 mins but then after that he can go for 2 more hours or more and not wake at all.

I have found music and white noise is helping him to settle himself but not yet helping get past the 45 min mark.

I know he can self settle because he does it at night and he does it when I sometimes ignore him in the morning if he's grizzling and I know he's still tired and I don't want to get up, lol.

This morning he was so shattered he couldn't even keep his eyes open and yet he kept waking up, I don't understand it.

I think you ladies are right I should go with the flow more, as some days just don't allow for the sleep routine anyway. I hadn't been going out much so it was working but this weekend we did a couple of visits so he had to make do with catnaps in his carseat or rocker for 45 mins at a time and it worked ok. So I think I will try what you have suggested and get up up if he's awake, try and resettle if he's cranky (usually lol) and not stress about it if he does get up.

And hope he learns soon!

I would just like to report that we had 2 3 hour sleeps today with no 45 min wakeup! The only thing I did differently was putting him down when he was very sleepy but awake and settling him in bed, so who knows if that was why but Im just glad it happened hehehe.

Thanks monkey thats a good idea I need to get out walking so I will give it a go.

Day 2 of trying to get him to self settle and we've only had one 45 min wakeup and he self settled from it, woah! Maybe me rocking him to sleep and then putting him down was the problem as he was waking up somewhere else, who knows. He could go back to it again tomorrow.

I'll just enjoy it while I can!

And - everytime you think you've mastered something, it changes again.

After saying Ollie had his naps sorted, he's back to waking every 45 minutes and not interested in being resettled.

So, I was thinking of you today as I sighed and got him up for the 5th time!

It seems the self settling has helped heaps, he hasn't been doing the 45 minute wakeups for a week! He has woken during his sleeps but for different reasons such as having a spill or dummy out hehe but not at 45 minutes!!! I used to have to rock him to sleep now he gets annoyed if I do that too much before putting him in the bed. Im amazed. Long may it last lol