I am SO over having kids who don’t nap. Seriously, two in a row??? I guess I was spoiled by Leah. And I thought I was some genius having a kid who napped religiously and easily no matter where or when. Apparently no thanks to me because I couldn’t get Erin and can’t get Adam to do it for anything. I was re-reading my blog today and found that Erin had the exact same issues at the exact same age as Adam is having. Only Adam is not sleeping as well at night as she did. Basically he wakes up 45 minutes into a nap EVERY TIME and will only go back to sleep if I do his whole nap routine again, sometimes several times. And sometimes he won’t go back to sleep at all and I just get him up. I wouldn’t mind this SO much if it didn’t make him SO cranky until the next naptime when we start this game all over again. I have gotten him to sleep in the swing or in my arms a few times and those naps tend to be long. Today he did the 45 min thing and wouldn’t go back to sleep. So I brought him downstairs and got him to fall asleep in my arms and he slept for 2 more hours. Um, seems obvious to me that the kid needs more naptime. But I can’t give it to him.
The icing on the cake is that he still wakes up every 3 hours to eat at night AND sometimes needs to be soothed back to sleep several times. I am becoming a zombie.
January 25th, 2010 at 8:50 am
No sleep is horrible. I think I have actually gotten used to it. Not really a good thing!
Jax only naps well in my arms. I was at the baby store and I saw this really creepy fake arm thing that you let your baby sleep on. I’ve thought about trying it
Maybe you could try it!
http://www.zakeez.com/en/zaky/fullterm.php
January 25th, 2010 at 8:51 am
This is probably a stupid question, but do you swaddle him REALLY tight? I remember Annabelle getting to a point (when she was still really young) where she would not sleep for long. Someone mentioned swaddling her, and I said that she didn’t like it, but I think I got desperate and tried it anyway. She didn’t sleep through the night until she was 9 months old, but she did sleep for long stretches otherwise once I started swaddling her TIGHTLY again.
Anyway, I know you’re desperate and you’ve probably already thought of this, but I thought it might be worth mentioning just in case.
January 25th, 2010 at 8:54 am
Christina-
I just watched those videos. The baby keeper is RIDICULOUS! Seriously… is that really necessary?!?
January 25th, 2010 at 3:39 pm
Hang in there!
Just think, you will get used to it and when you do get a lot of sleep – you will be a zombie from sleeping too much!!
January 25th, 2010 at 4:31 pm
UGH.. so sorry! Hope it gets better soon!