Today I am home for day one of my short spring break. Since I usually work Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday and I am off Thursday this week, it is almost having a whole week off even though it is just one work day off. Get it? So I thought this would be a good week to work with Erica on scheduling and napping. Disaster already. What am I doing wrong? Does she have something missing from her brain that doesn't allow her to learn this?
Here are direct quotes from the notebook I am keeping:
Wednesday schedule fixing day 1
March 18
6:30 woke up
6:45 6 oz.
9:00 nap after 17 min cry (kept crying 30 min)
9:25 two more tries - put in bed asleep :(
slept 5 or 10 min
cried another 15 - I give up
10:45 6 oz.
11:25 down crying for nap
11:45 finally asleep
12:25 woke up
2:45 6 oz.
fell asleep 10 min on shoulder woke up when I put down :(
3:42 in bed wide awake
wrapped in blanket
Now it is 4:03 and she started crying about 3 min after I put her in bed. Now what do I do? She isn't going to sleep! I am a terrible sleep trainer. I honestly need help.
**** UPDATE **** Maybe I am just impatient and it is my issue, not hers. Here is the rest of the notebook for this nap:
4:07 I'm not holding my breath, which is good b/c by the time I wrote this sentence she was crying again.
4:09 maybe? no.
4:10 possible?
OK this is promising 3:42 to 4:10 cried 28 min.
Try the book "On Becoming Babywise". She is probably waking herself up as she goes from a light sleep into a deep sleep.
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