It really is astounding how many posts I have from the fusspot's early days obsessing over her sleep and eating and such. It is hardly that we are neglecting the dumpling, but just that we are so much more confident in our choices and he really is an easy baby. But I am starting to wonder whether the poor baby (he's almost 3 months old) needs a bit more sleep. One of the classic signs of sleep deprivation is needing to wake your baby in the morning, and yup, my baby sleeps until woken. And let's be honest: it's lovely. There is nothing nicer than doing a nice dream feed with the baby, getting up and feeding the fusspot breakfast, showering, pumping, and packing up my stuff while he snoozes.
I do think the dumpling is an easy baby, but that statement needs a little moderation. As long as he is being held upright during the day and has his own person space heater to keep him company at night, he's easy. Which is to say that there are definitely days that he won't stand for being in the stroller or the bouncy seat or hanging out on the floor, and also nights that he won't consider going to bed alone no matter how much rocking/nursing/singing I do. But despite all of that he is so laid back. He's the type of baby where you can be mid-nursing session and need to leap up to save the toddler from her own clever idea and you just rip him away from his meal and dump him on the floor and he looks up with a slightly peeved look but hardly breaks into sobs (as the fusspot would have done). He doesn't seem to notice dirty diapers and has thus far not complained about the heat (we have just one window AC unit in our bedroom that we use at night, so it's pretty hot in the rest of the apartment).
So, sleep. He sleeps about 11-12 hours at night. Something like 9 or 10 pm to 8:30. And he takes a decent afternoon nap at home, although I always have to wake him to get the fusspot from daycare. He'll take a long mid-morning nap for me, but not at daycare and he mostly just catnaps in the late afternoon.
The real problem is how to get him to nap at daycare. Our daycare provider Y is entirely opposed to CIO. But she is also way too busy chasing 2 active toddlers to rock him quietly to sleep. I think that we both thought that he'd fall asleep in the stroller so if she just went out every morning he'd get a nap, but there are days that he absolutely won't stand for the stroller. So my question is how to get him to sleep at a busy daycare sans CIO. I've already tried bringing an item that smells like me and a blanket, but he doesn't seem to notice either. She's happy to carry him in the sling but he doesn't seem to fall asleep there when it's noisy. Any other tricks? Should I be really worried? I'm pretty sure that he gets about 13.5-14 hours a day on a weekday, but that's still on the low side.
And thank you for the decluttering suggestions (and Amanda for the clogged duct ideas!). It will certainly be an ongoing process all month.
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We we're never too successful at getting Michael to sleep at daycare. The one thing that really helped was swaddling him. He needed that security and then it became a habit too. I'm not proud to say it, but he was swaddled until he was about 10 months old at daycare. That's what (sorta) worked for us. Unfortunately, he had to cut down from multiple naps per day to just one before he actually go good at taking naps and that was just a couple of months ago.
LL was swaddled until 9 months as well. And at 5 months, we're still swaddling Kermit with no end in sight. It signals "time to sleep" in a way that nothing else does, at least for my kids.
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