Overtired baby :(

[Sproglet]

She's been so grumpy all day, I had to go out to order my wedding ring and she grabbed 10 minutes nap in the car so wouldn't sleep in the pram while out. Then this afternoon I went to the breastfeeding group, she always needs a nap while there but she'll sleep in my arms. Unfortunately with it being half term there were a couple of older and noisier siblings that woke Robyn up. So since then she has fought me trying to get her to nap and been waking up and crying lots, and only really had one good awake period.

At 8pm I had just managed to get her to fall asleep when the doorbell rang and woke her again- it was a flipping salesman. I was so tempted to hand LO over and say 'you woke her, now you get her back to sleep'.

It's such a shame as she slept much better than normal last night so I don't know why her naps have gone to pot today! And I've ended up letting her nap way too close to bedtime because she's just been screaming whenever she's not asleep.

 

[Sapphire83]

Damn that salesman! A lot of things could affect her sleep routine such as teething, working on a new skill or her wanting to drop a nap. I hope she's in a better mood today.

 

[Noelle610]

Around that age my LO stopped napping in the car or stroller and really needed more quality naps in her crib. I think that's pretty common as they get older.

 

[socitycourty]

i would try making it dark and quiet, walk around and bounce/cuddle her, hold her tight and just wait for her to give in. i have this problem all the time

 

[Sproglet]

Quality naps? Crib? Routine? I have a half hour catnapper here! Only way to get her to sleep longer in the day is to cuddle her.

Last night was probably the worst night's sleep since she was a newborn. Bedtime at 9 pm as usual (asleep for half past), she woke at 11:30 to feed, 1:30 to feed, 2:30 crying so I brought her into bed with me, woke at 4:15, fed, and screamed till 5:15 when she fell asleep in my arms, woke screaming at 6:15 and continued till 7:00 when I changed her nappy to find her bum was absolutely covered in rash! So I let her kick about naked on a waterproof mat and she was happy as larry till she weed and that made her scream again. She's now fast asleep in my arms (it's 8 am) but I daren't put a nappy on her as her bum was so sore looking, so hoping I can catch the majority with a terry nappy when she next wees.

 

[Sapphire83]

Oh no, poor thing! Could you buy some zinc oxide cream for her bum? We've been putting it on LO's bum from day one and haven't had any issues at all. *knocks on wood*

 

[Sparrow85]

Over-tiredness is just hell.

They really should tell you this when you have a baby. I just assumed that if they were tired, they would sleep! I had a terrible day with Max on Monday; he just would not nap. He screamed the house down from mid-day till 8pm at night. I tried everything to get him to sleep and nothing worked. He just constantly rubbed his eyes and looked like he was ready to drop off and then woke straight back up again. I took him out in pram and was awake the whole time!

I'm lucky that he STTN so it ended when he went to bed, but honestly, just SLEEP BABY!! Only thing that worked was me walking around the house with him on my shoulder, with a blanket covering his head (not his face, just head lol). He didn't go to sleep, but it gave my ears a rest.

 

[MiniKiwi]

I would have been so mad about the salesman

Don't have any advice about the rash - nappy off time is all I do for my LO as well.

I do know all about cat napping, over tired babies! Have you got time to put her in a wrap for her naps? I used to just take a walk for my LO's naps at that age. She'd nap for 10 minutes at home in her crib and an hour as I walked with her in the moby! It was great. Obviously we had better nights the days I walked a lot I also often bounced her to sleep with her in the sleep hold (does every mum know this? just cradle type holding) and sat an the edge of my bed and bounced, I'd bounce 500+ times lol! But it did the trick.

Those were my two best weapons but it's just so tough, isn't it? My LO suddenly started doing 2 hour naps at 7 months and still does that now, so there is hope!

 

[Sproglet]

I've been using it overnight already. I don't think the rash is entirely nappy rash because she has a few spots elsewhere, her legs and tum, I think it's a heat rash or something that's been made 10x worse by her nappy.

Either that, or she's actually poorly and that's why she's been out of sorts! I took her temperature and it was 36.7 so that's fine. And she's been feeding OK. I just don't want to disturb her now she's sleeping peacefully and take her to the docs if it's just a heat rash.

 

[Sproglet]

The sleep hold is the only thing that works for Robyn when she's like this, I need to be an octopus though to hold her, put her dummy in, and stop my eyes getting poked out as she flails her arms wildly as she fights going to sleep! I have a wrap but for some reason she doesn't want to sleep in it at the moment, normally it does the trick for her though.

 

[Noelle610]

How long is she awake before you put her down? I think the cat naps are relatively normal at that age, but sometimes the short naps are a result of baby being overtired or even undertired. I've found it's all about getting them down in that "magic moment", which of course is always changing as they get older!

 

[Sproglet]

Usually around an hour and a half, if I put her down any earlier she just coos to herself and spits her dummy out, and gets fed up of being in her cot by the time she's tired enough to actually nap. Sometimes she can manage up to 2 hours of awake time. Even if I get her in the magic moment and she's out like a light within 2 minutes of being put down, she still wakes after 30 minutes! I think it's to do with transitioning through sleep cycles or something.

 

[mellyboo]

Quality naps? Crib? Routine? I have a half hour catnapper here! Only way to get her to sleep longer in the day is to cuddle her.

Last night was probably the worst night's sleep since she was a newborn. Bedtime at 9 pm as usual (asleep for half past), she woke at 11:30 to feed, 1:30 to feed, 2:30 crying so I brought her into bed with me, woke at 4:15, fed, and screamed till 5:15 when she fell asleep in my arms, woke screaming at 6:15 and continued till 7:00 when I changed her nappy to find her bum was absolutely covered in rash! So I let her kick about naked on a waterproof mat and she was happy as larry till she weed and that made her scream again. She's now fast asleep in my arms (it's 8 am) but I daren't put a nappy on her as her bum was so sore looking, so hoping I can catch the majority with a terry nappy when she next wees.

I hear ya, I have princess cat napper over on my end.. she falls asleep anywhere for the same amount of time no matter where she naps.. hope your babes feels better soon!

are babes are days apart and Jords is going thru the same thing, must be the age!

 

[mellyboo]

Mines the sleep cycles too, she cant deal with them even at night time she has a very very hard time hence why we co sleep, ill put her down with in an hour of waking up because i NO shes tired im good at reading her cue's she's just extremely tough to deal with it.. shes set in her way.

 

[Noelle610]

You're probably right. Naps got longer for us around 6 months. It's a phase, but frustrating!

 

[Lilmiss1]

I hate salesmen too. I have a note stuck to my door permanently that says "knock quietly, baby sleeping"!!

 

[Sproglet]

Just got back from docs- her rash got worse and she's barely fed today, he says it's a virus and monitor her temp, urine output etc over the next 2 days and go back if she gets worse. He did work out the correct dose of calpol for her weight, see if that helps, as I was giving her less based on her age.

 

[Noelle610]

Poor thing! Hope she feels better.