Thursday, August 27, 2009

Asher's current night schedule:

~8-12 sleep
12 eat
12:20-12:50 require interventions to return to sleep
~2 wake, not hungry yet, sometimes in discomfort prior to pooping, sometimes unexplained
2-2:30 require interventions to return to sleep
~3:15 wake and eat
3:30-4am require interventions to return to sleep
~5:30 wake and fed reluctantly (he's not really all that hungry but at this point no one has the energy to try to soothe him to sleep until he is)
~5:30-7:30 really restless sleeping, waking/rustling every 5 minutes or so.

What the heck?! No one is getting any sleep around here. It's actually deteriorated from the early days when there were some nights where he was doing at least solid 3 hr stretches. Reuel wonders about a milk allergy, but he doesn't have any 'classic' symptoms of that (like blood in stool, hives) And did I mention Owen isn't napping? Owen was a BAD sleeper, but at least he went right back to sleep after being fed at night. I had no idea this could happen! It's the same during the day, so it's not just day/night swapping I'm afraid. He just does this grunty squirmy thing every few minutes after you put him in the bassinet (or even if you hold him) and if you don't pacify him through it for nearly a half hour, he ramps up his crying and can't settle at all. Sigh! He's really a lot easier than Owen, except for this nighttime stuff!

:)

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