So today is day 5 of implementing the Official Nap Schedule with Asher. Part of me had started to wonder about a week ago if some of Asher's fussiness in the evenings had to do with the fact that he wasn't getting a good solid nap during the day. He often just napped for an hour here, half an hour there, but nothing consistent. So I did some reading about sleep and babies, and decided to try out an Official Nap Schedule, which you think I would have started earlier since I'm so anal and scheduled. So here's the plan of action; 3 naps a day broken down in a 2 hour morning nap, a 2 hour afternoon nap, a half an hour late afternoon/early evening nap, and then his regular 8:30 bedtime. Here's how it's gone down this week:
Monday - went according to plan. Asher slept when he was supposed to, pretty much. I think to myself, "Wow, this Official Nap Schedule was so easy to implement!" Still the same fussiness in the evening though. Stink.
Tuesday - not quite as good as Monday, but still okay. Asher had a bit more trouble staying down for 2 hours in the morning, was a bit late getting down for the afternoon nap, and he had a really hard time doing his evening nap. We pretty much stuck to the schedule though.
Wednesday - SUCKED. We were out in the morning and so he woke up and wouldn't go back down. His eating schedule got thrown off as a result, and his afternoon nap really turned out to be catnaps all over the place. Frig, that wasn't so easy after all.
Thursday - we decided to stay home and work this nap thing out. Asher slept later than normal in the morning so he didn't sleep so great for his morning nap. He had trouble going down for his afternoon nap too, although he did sleep for 2 hours. He feel asleep pretty easily for his evening nap though and wasn't quite so insanely fussy after that for most of the evening.
Friday - Asher went down okay for his morning nap but has since woken up 2o million times. I keep going back in and calming him down and putting him back down to go to sleep. We're an hour and a half into it. I'm optimistic that we may actually be getting somewhere with this.
Or maybe I'm just a bit deluded due to sleep deprivation. Hey, maybe I should try out the Official Nap Schedule on myself :)
3 comments:
wow..he'll sleep for two hours for a nap?? wowsers...that's a long time..way to go Mandi!
Thanks for checking out the blog Andrea. He does nap for 2 hours at a time, and he does that twice a day. The afternoon nap is still a bit of a fight sometimes, but each day gets better. The odd time he'll even nap for 3 hours.
Good job girl!! That's must be a wonderful break! Good for you to trust your mommy instincts! You felt that he wasn't getting enough napping time and you must have been right!!
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