DD will be 8 weeks old tomorrow, and for the last 2 weeks her naps and night sleeping patterns have been really odd and unpredictable - at first, she cut down drastically on her naps and stayed awake for a very long time during the day - her naps all went down to 30-45 mins from 2 hour ones.
That lasted for about a week. Then, she started taking really frequent naps all day long until her usual witching hours, but then went down for the night as normal.
Now for the past few days she's been napping A TON - often just waking up to nurse, staying a little more awake in the evening, but then completely refusing to go down from around 9PM until 12:30AM! Then she sleeps normally throughout the night once we finally get her to settle down.
At first I thought she might be growth spurting, but she showed no other signs of it (no increased eating or fussiness), It MIGHT have happened and just showed through her sleeping pattern only, but that still doesn't explain the 2-week long set of changes, or why she suddenly naps all day but refuses to go down at night... I'm not comfortable forcing her to stay up during the day because she's clearly tired and will just cry unless she gets to sleep.
Just wondering if anyone else has been experiencing funky sleep patterns lately, or might know what this is all about/when the sleeping might level itself out? We have her 2 month pedi appointment on Monday, so I'll be able to ask then too.
Re: Weird recent sleep patterns
DS does the same exact thing and he's about 8.5 weeks. at about 6 weeks he would NOT nap during the day, but then would sleep from 10:30 to 6 or 7am. Then a week later he would go to bed at 7pm wake up at 3 or 4, then back down till 8. THEN, few days later, he picked up a 2 am feeding (that was an exhausting few days) and suddenly dropped it. The one thing I can usually rely on is a 3-4 hour nap about mid day. He doesn't nap much other then that.
I think it's a pretty normal for them to still be trying to discover a pattern at this age, but hopefully there's some reprieve soon!
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