Sentences with phrase «of waketime»

At 4 months, my kids were all at 1 hour of waketime, so by the time you fed and changed, it seems she would be about there anyway.

max of waketime or he won't go to sleep on his own.

With a short nap, he wouldn't have as long of a waketime anyway.

BW book recommends that one of the waketime periods could be running errands but how many errands can you run in 45 - 60 minutes with a newborn?

I would try adding 5 - 10 minutes of waketime length.

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

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.

Even now, at 9 weeks, she can most likley only handle about 1 hour of waketime.

Yesterday when I put him down while he was awake (after about 50 minutes of waketime including feeding), he cried for about 10 minutes off and on then eventually fell asleep.

When the baby wakes up early it s hard to arrive at feed time, it's a lot of waketime: -LRB-.

I'm not sure if she's getting too much waketime before that first nap... I usually go walking with her in the morning and often she'll fall asleep in the stroller and when I get home I'll put her in bed, but I've also tried nixing the walk and scheduling just an hour or so of waketime so she won't be as sleepy going down for a nap and she still rises early.

I've been trying CIO but most days she will cry right through until her next feeding, then she's fussy and can't be put down again through her next period of waketime.

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

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?

But with about 60 minutes of waketime plus at least a 45 - 60 minute nap, he should be able to go two hours.

Not exact matches

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?

My concern is that she's not really getting much waketime since she is nursing for so much of it.

I think all problem of my baby naps lie in waketime.

But if she just won't sleep longer than 1 30, then you will need a waketime of 2 hours to make it to 3.5 hours with a 30 minute wait time after waking up.

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.

He usually sleeps 7 - 8 hours, so wakes up around 2:30 - 4 am for his next feed, then usually sleeps till his waketime of 7 am.

He has recently started waking in the middle of the night and fussing for about 5 minutes every 30 minutes from 3 am until his waketime at 6 am, and I think it is because he is hungry from dropping all those calories and not replacing them with food.

Included is an explanation of the three basic elements of daytime activities for newborns: feeding time, waketime, and naptime.

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

LaceyLS, I would try it putting her down at the first sign of sleepiness and see what happens.If she falls asleep faster, then you know she can use a shorter waketime.

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

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?

However, as he has become more alert, I have made the mistake in the past week of keeping him up too long for his waketimes.

Because of this at 3 months, she still takes all of her naps between feeding and waketime (though I'm trying to drop the evening nap, with some crankiness).

But know that since her last feeding of the day is at 6:30, she likely won't be able to make it much past that in the morning, so her waketime would be 6:30 - 7:00 ish.

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?

I actually decided to drop the DF last night and I put him to bed around 8:15 instead of 7:30 and he slept till 7 a.m. (his established waketime)!

For his second nap I tried a 1.5 hr waketime, and he fell asleep really fast with no crying at all, but then woke up 35 min in, and cried off and on (interspersed with playing) for a hour and only fell asleep right at the end of his nap!I let him sleep for 30 min and then fed him.

I guess one thing us parents of catnappers have to keep in mind is that we just need to make sure that they have more naps and less waketime.

However, the 3 hr nap schedule isn't really working for him because of his lengthened waketime.

My instinct is to wake her, to give her the sense that bedtimes and waketimes are taken care of — particularly if she has gotten the full 11 hours and is napping 2 or 2 1/2 hrs a day.

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.

Last question, is it normal for waketimes to be getting a bit longer at this age of 12 week??

Anyway, one thing to be sure of is that her waketime length is correct.

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?

I know a lot of daytime nap problems are a result of too much waketime.

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!!).

I want to keep my feed times the same, but I know if he only sleeps 45 mins and I get him up, he'll have over an hour of play time before his bottle and that's way too much waketime (since he'll have to have play time after his bottle too).

Other than that, if you have ruled out hunger, pain, temperature, waketime length, etc, then it would have to fall into a category of «part of the learning process» or «phase» and I would just help him back to sleep like you are.

Rest intervals (inclusive of bedtime and waketime) were set by the investigators using the sleep logs as a guide [18], [19].