HELP PRETTY PLEASE
Ok i’ve been reading other posts here that are similar so I didn’t have to post my own, but there’s nothing exactly like that so this is our situation.
Our baby ever since a newborn truly has never “love to sleep :D
He’s extremely (and I mean EXTREMELY) active and very happy (90% of the time)
He’s now almost 7 months old his sleep looks like this but varies!
I actually don’t know where to start :D
He is breastfed if that means anything and he has a poor latch (no tongue tie) he will eat the let down and then eat like an hour later we’ve seen specialist in this area and they say he is satisfied with just that. More personality than anything :D (wonder) I feel like a full belly would have a lot to do with it.
Ok he wakes up anywhere from 5:30am - 7am (so happy)
Shows a sleep cue like eye rubbing or yawning I immediately try to put him to bed so often times that the first 30min to an hour of being awake.
Now by putting him to bed I mean fighting with him while I rock him thru the loudest screaming then fades to eye rolling and slow blinks then he catches himself falling asleep then more screaming and we repeat this for about an hour. His dad can get him to sleep at that time frame more often than I can :D
Then he sleeps finally for anywhere from 10min to an hour but more often a 30 min nap we try to bridge his naps by re rocking but that’s the same battle from above for another hour most times. (We’ve tried letting him just lay there after he wakes on a short nap but he will never let himself fall back asleep. He’ll would have to freeze over) we do let him just rest there sometimes too before letting him be officially awake or helping him back to sleep.
He does nap best when dad holds him thru it on the weekends (as the mom, I feel some type of way lol)
I just want to reinstate that he remains completely active thru all this like moving his hands and feet’s etc. (I worry he is really really struggling more abnormally then most with relaxing his nervous system) if you show any signs letting him stay awake after screaming episodes “letting him win” he will be soooo happy big smiles and start talking.
After his nap or w.e you wanna call that he’ll be up till his very next sleep cue and that ranges really from an hour to 3 but if we let him stay up at all he will happily be up ALL day with just sleep cues. I hate and feel awful if it ever gets overtired stage which happens more often then I’d like to admit. Especially when my mother watches him who has had five kids under five and says they will sleep when they want to sleep. (Is that true even especially when they’re showing sleep cues and will never let them self sleep anyways) he doesn’t fight strangers like he fights his parents going to sleep in fact, he will sleep for strangers easily (my friends he doesn’t see often) he has started to fight my parents a little bit as he gets more used to them. But the 30 minute nap remains the same in most cases.
We religiously put him down to sleep around 7:30 to 830. However, he wakes all night for small feedings and we do go sleep so he normally will go back to bed right after eating sometimes I think he’s just sleep eating and that’s about six times through the night. Lately he’s been getting up from 3 AM to 5 AM then eventually I get him to go back to sleep.
We are surviving and we can totally keep pushing through this, however we feel like just life size amoeba‘s at this point lol he’s growing and gaining weight and infects pretty big! We help his teething at any point he still doesn’t have any bumps or signs of them pushing thru. (I know that doesn’t mean he’s not teething) we use natural remedies chew toys, extra love, extra cuddles. But he’s so active he really doesn’t love to cuddle. He just wants to be held and played and talked to. I tried to put anything I could possibly think of so sorry if this sounds like a overtired dump. :D
( I fear anxiety runs in my family I’m fortunate to have not experienced it but it’s very heavy on my side. I’m not sure the science or studies done behind infants on early signs or if that’s just so left field to say.