Sleep Breakthrough! the 2-1 nap transition & our current schedule

You may recall the blog I posted last Wednesday about my "failed" nap experiment. I went into it with the impression that I couldn't screw things up any worse than the already were--and it was just one day--so why not try something completely different regarding baby G's lack of sleep.

I couldn't have been more right. Apparently the ridiculous amount of crying G and I endured last Wednesday flipped some kind of switch in her brain. I hated it, she hated it, the whole apartment complex hated it. But then the most magnificent thing happened.

Sleep and Teeth - a sleep log update

I haven't posted a sleep log in a few weeks, because not much has changed. There really hasn't been much of an improvement. The good news, though, is that G has settled back down into a two nap pattern for now. That's a lot easier to deal with, than trying to make one nap stretch for the whole day. Her nights are still a crapshoot, but at least I can blame the teeth and poop (nothing I can control). Her top right tooth is seriously THIS CLOSE to poking through. We haven't figured out anything to solve the middle of the night poop problems, so we are changing a poopy diaper around 5 AM each morning. UGHHHHH.

Unreliable Sleep Log Report

This is a little over a week's worth of sleep logs for G. We did Tylenol before bed several nights because her teeth were really bugging her, and we hoped that'd help her sleep. We had some glimmers of hope Saturday-Monday nights, but now we are back to craziness. Her top teeth are bulging out, so it's only a matter of time before those cut through. You'll see that at the end of the log, her nights get pretty close to perfect...but then start back down into the crappy multiple night waking pattern.

Tylenol commentary and Weekly Sleep Log

don't let this grin fool you! ;-)

Someone found my blog by googling, "sleep log," so I thought I'd share G's sleep log for the week. Teething has re-entered our lives in full force, after a few days off. I guess some babies aren't bothered by teething...my daughter is not one of them. She has two bottom teeth and I guess the top two are working their way down. My commentary on Tylenol is at the end of the log.

Monday - average day, except the crap last nap

Night sleep (NS): 7:55 - 3:20, 7:25
Eat: 3:25
Ns: 3:50 - 5:50, 2
Eat: 6
Ns: 6:20 - 7:10, 50
Ns: 7:40 - 8:10, 30
Tons: 10:45
Eat: 9:30
Nap: 10 - 11:30, 1:30
Solids: 1:55
Eat: 2:30
Nap: 2:45 - 3:05, 20
Eat: 4:45
Eat: 5:20
Solids: 6:30
Eat: 7:20
Total: 12:45
Wake time (WT): 1:50 / 3:15 / 4:35
Meals: 7 milk, 2 solids

Tuesday - not such a great day, crap for naps = low total sleep and long WT before bed
Ns: 7:40 - 11:50, 4:10
Eat: 1
Ns: 1:30 - 5:40, 4:10
Eat: 5:45
Ns: 6 - 8:25, 2:25
Tons: 10:45
Eat: 9:35
Eat: 10:30
Nap: 10:50 - 11:30, 40m
Solids: 11:50
Eat: 1:10
Nap: 1:30 - 2, 30m
Eat: 4:35
Solids: 6:25
Eat: 7:20
Total: 11:55
Wt: 2:25 / 2 / 5:40
Meals: 7, 2 solids

Wednesday - great day! (high total sleep, making up for previous day)
Ns: 7:40 - 4:50, 9:10
Eat: 4:55
Ns: 5:10 - 8:10, 3
Tons: 12:10
Eat: 8:50
Eat: 10:40
Nap: 10:50 - 11:50, 1
Solids: 1:30
Eat: 2
Nap: 2:30 - 3:50, 1:20
Eat: 5:50
Solids: 6:45
Eat: 7:35
Total: 14:30
Wt: 2:40 / 2:40 / 4:55
Meals: 6, 2 solids

Thursday - crap first nap, but pretty solid day
Ns: 7:55 - 3:55, 8
Eat: 4:15
Ns: 4:35 - 7:25, 2:50
Tons: 10:50
Eat: 7:50
Eat: 8:50
Nap: 9:45 - 10:20, 35m
Solids: 12:20
Eat: 12:45
Nap: 12:55 - 2:20, 1:25
Eat: 4:40
Solids: 6:55
Eat: 7:20
Total: 12:50
Wt: 2:20 / 2:35 / 5
Meals: 6, solids 2

Friday - weird day, 3 naps, short wake times...teething?sick?growth?
Ns: 7:40 - 2:30, 6:45
Eat: 2:45
Ns: 3:10 - 6:45, 3:35
Tons: 10:20
Eat: 6:50
Eat: 8:30
Nap: 8:40 - 9:20, 40m
Eat: 11:15
Nap: 11:25 - 12:50, 1:25
Eat:ish 2:40
Solids: 2:45
Eat: 4:05
Nap: 4:15 - 5:20, 1:05
Solids: 6:15
Eat: 7:15
Total: 13:30
Wt: 2 / 2 / 3:25 / 3
Meals: 7, 2 solids

Saturday - crappy day...bad night sleep, bad naps...UGH
Ns: 8:15 - 11:35, 3:20
Nurse: 12:15
Ns: 12:30 - 2:15, 1:45
Eat: 2:20
Ns: 2:35 - 4:30: 1:55
Eat: 4:40
Ns: 5:05 - 7, 1:55
Tons: 8:55
Eat: 9
Nap: 9:30 - 10:05, 35m
Eat: 12:05
Solids: 1
Eat: 3:40
Nap: 3:50 - 4:30, 40m
Solids: 6:20
Eat: 6:45
Total: 10:10
Wt: 2:30 / 5:45 / 2:35
Eat: 6, solids: 2

Sunday - we gave her Tylenol at 10:15, something was really hurting her (felt it would be beneficial to get us all some sleep after the crappy day before) and it turned into a great sleep day
Ns: 7:05 - 9:55, 2
Eat: 10:30
Ns: 10:55 - 5:25, 6:30
Ns: 5:45 - 8:05, 2:20
Total, 10:50
Eat: 8:50
Eat: 10:25
Nap: 10:35 - 12, 1:25
Solids: 1:30
Eat: 2:40
Nap: 2:55 - 4:15, 1:20
Solids: 6:15
Eat: 7:45
Total: 13:35
Wt: 2:30 / 2:55 / 3:45
Eat: 5, 2 solids


This night (Sunday night into Monday, which will appear on next week's sleep log) we gave her Tylenol at bedtime as per my mom's advice to see if it helped G avoid the early night waking (ENW). Instead of the ENW we had the past 2 nights, she slept until almost 5 am... I don't like the idea of giving G Tylenol all the time, but her sleep was on a bbbaaadd downward spiral, and my husband and I were walking zombies too. Nothing worked at her night wakings, nursing would only buy us an hour or two, and she was not hungry at all. And that's just as bad of a habit as medicineevery night and wanting her (and us!) to get sleep.