Sentences with phrase «does waketime»

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Do I need waketime after her last feeding of the day or is it okay to reverse her bath and feeding so that she has a bath and then nurses right before I put her in bed?

Make sure you read the opsts on «optimal waketime lengths» Those will help you understand when to do what.

I'm not sure there is anything that I can do about this excessive long wake time window of fuzzing action since he usually has a big bowl movement around 2:00 a.m. I'm only guessing his bowl movement is what keeps him up for 3 hours, but who knows it might be do to my poor waketime strategy during the day.

Some mornings he will sleep until 6:30 and eat and fall back asleep until our waketime at 8, but then he won't eat again at 8 so he is missing one whole feeding and doing fine.

Do you have any suggestions for keeping baby happy in the 1 1/2 hours of waketime we are having between the last nap and her 7 p.m. feeding?

A young baby may only be able to do 45 minutes of waketime — including feeding.

I may have missed this, but where did you post the optimal waketime lengths for older babies?

Just do 1.5 waketime and 2.5 hour naps.

She might eat better if she had a four hour schedule, but to do that you would want to try to fix the early waking, or wait until her waketime can be longer.

Do keep working with waketime lenghth.

Jessica, Her waketime lengths don't have to be a certain length necessarily.

Does he need a longer waketime?

RoxyT, If you get his optimal waketime length right, he should go to sleep rather quickly (though the Baby Whisperer does say that average time to fall asleep is 20 minutes).

Often that is a sign of not having waketime in the day, but it sounds like you are doing that.

(though I do like the gym for some waketimes).

So, my question is should I take him on the walk right after he eats as waketime even if he does take a cat nap?

He did really well after about the third day and started sleeping past his waketimes (when he was on the 3 - 3.5 hr schedule) and wouldn't take full feedings.

«Once parents have their infant's eating and sleeping patterns under control, it's time to do the same with waketime activities,» writes Ezzo.

I did babywise and CIO with my first so I have a pretty good idea of optimal waketimes and reading cues.

The short answer is that you don't add waketime, you wait for him to be ready.

You have to be really careful when messing with a 6 month old waketime that you don't go too long.

Until about a week ago, he seemed to be doing quite well with basically eating and sleeping on a 3 - hour routine, with his waketimes primarily being limited to his nursing period.

What is done during waketime before the long vs short naps?

At this point, shortening the waketime isn't going to fix it because you didn't change waketime and she was fine before.

i have an 11 week old girl and am having napping issues - for approx. 6 weeks now she falls asleep fine but always wakes up early, very very rarely making it through 1 hr uninterrupted... i've read through a lot of the posts and tried various things such as cutting back on waketime, increasing waketime, cio, etc. but nothing has worked... when she does wake early i try and get her back down but it does get frustrating at times... her nighttime sleep is pretty random as well - she's anywhere from 5 - 7rs, sometimes 8 - 8.5 hrs, once 9.5 hrs, then all of a sudden she went back down to 4 - 4.5 hrs... is this normal?

I don't think the waketime is too long though since he did really well with it before.

How long did you keep your bambino up for waketime?

8 am waketime: nurse 9:30 - 11 / 11:30: nap 1 11:30: nurse 1pm - 2:30: nap 2 2:30 nurse 3:45 - 4:30: nap 3 4:45: nurse «snack» 6:30 / 6:45 bottle of formula * very very hungry at this feeding (I pump a little later to build a stash) 7 pm bedtime 11:15 pm I wake him for DF 5:30 am he wakes to nurse (eats for a good 15 minutes) 8 am waketime (sometimes I wake him sometimes he's up 7:30 - hard to say) How do I start?

He did not wake up again until 2 when I nursed him then he slept all the way til waketime at 7.

I would first try to tone down stimulation and then if that dosn't work, add five minutes waketime at a time.

Also, how do I try to extend his waketimes... I see him yawning at the one hour mark almost every time in the a.m. but he can go a little longer in the afternoon.

I have tried shortening his waketimes, but that doesn't seem to be working.

Another thought is to add some more stimulation to her waketime activity, but be careful you don't add to much.

Another issue in having is he doesn't nap for every nap — at least not the 1.5 hours because he's not sleepy enough as he used to be after 1.5 hrs of waketime, so I feel he def needs to drop feedings.

I tried to put him to sleep after 1 hour of waketime (he does nt have good cues at all!)

I'm a little confused on how to do that since he is used to a waketime of only 1.5 hours during the day and about 2 hours right before bed.

Even my 6 month old can't do that for every waketime.

My theory is they do nt need as much sleep, but they can't stay awake for too long, so Im hoping once her waketime increases, her naps will join together!

Is putting him down earlier supposed to work right away or do I need to try an entire day of sticking to a much shorter waketime?

If I shorten his waketime, he'll just play in his crib until he would have fallen asleep anyway, so I don't think that's the cause.

I went through the other 45 minute posts over and over again trying to see if anything «clicked» in my mind... I think I kind of knew that the problem wasn't a waketime or hunger problem because of the troubleshooting I had done so far (thanks to your blog!!).

When you said that you learned to accept that your baby was a 45 minute napper and got her up, did that mean you just let her have waketime until it was time to eat again?

Tiffanie N., do you have her waketime length right?

He quickly could do a 2 hour waketime, so we did 2 hours sleep, then nap.

The best thing to do is to experiment with different waketimes.