I feel like I am about to go insane!

If it isn’t one thing – it’s another!

Last night Little Bug went to sleep at around 10pm. At 3:30am she awoke and started “calling out”. Just polite little hollers, as if to see if anyone else was awake at that hour of the morning.

Um, no, Sorry Little Bug, but at that time, Mommy and Daddy are both sound asleep and you should be too!

Several recent nights, Little Bug has done this but then gone back to sleep shortly after no one gets up to play with her! :) Well, last night, the cooing turned to crying so I figured she must want to eat.

So around 4am I got up and fed her. By 4:30 I had laid a sleeping Little Bug back in the bassinet with 4 ounces of formula in her tummy. Not five minutes later, she was up cooing again. She stayed up “talking” until 5:30am when she finally went back to sleep! Then she woke up ready for the day at around 7:45am, which is her normal wake up time.

I decided to see how much Little Bug is sleeping during the day. When I figured it up, she is napping about 5-6 hours a day.

Who knows how much sleep an almost 4 month old needs? I’ve looked it up from difference sources and everyone says something different.

Little Bug typically eats, is awake for an hour to an hour and half and then she is ready for a nap. If I don’t lay her down, she is crabby and I know the only thing she wants is her bed! This morning she was awake from 7:45am to 9:20. At 9:20 I tried to entertain her to keep her awake but she wouldn’t have anything to do with me. All she wanted was her crib. I laid her down and she was out like a light – no crying.

So, the only thing I know to do is not let her sleep past 2 hours per nap. (She doesn’t do this anyway really.) Most naps are between 1.5 to 2 hours in length.

She does have one nap in the evening that is very short. I wish she would just drop it. But, again, she is SO crabby without it.

Getting her to stay up until 10pm means she needs to nap from about 7:30pm to 8:30pm. If she doesn’t, she is wanting the bed by 8:30 or 9pm. I am afraid if she is in bed before 10pm she will be ready to start the day at 5am!

I think maybe it is time to transfer her to the crib at night. Maybe that will solve all our problems! :) At least if she decides to wake up and talk for hours in the night she will be in her own room and we can still sleep!

Last night I was awake 2 hours because of the moonlight talking! Even when she was a newborn I was never awake in the night more than 30 minutes to an hour per feeding!

Yep, maybe that is what needs to happen TONIGHT. Little Bug just may be moving to the crib tonight.  With the monitor, I will still be able to hear her to fed her should she be hungry in the night. But if she chooses to talk for an hour in the night, I can turn the monitor down and go back to sleep. Our bedroom is close enough to hers that if she did turn her talking to wails, I would be able to hear her, even if the monitor is turned down.

I never in a million years thought it would be such science to get my baby on a good sleeping schedule that meets the needs of her and us!

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- Elaine