Daily meltdowns!!!
Okay...so DS has been sleeping really well at night lately - sometimes up to 11 hours without a feeding! Naptime still stinks though. This week, his new thing is to have a complete volcanic eruption, screaming meltdown between 2 and 3 every afternoon. I know he's tired because he's rubbing his eyes, but he just won't fall asleep! Nothing I do seems to help until he just finally falls asleep from exhaustion (about 20 minutes later) - rocking him, singing to him, the swing, feeding him, changing him - none of it works. It's so heartbreaking to just listen to him scream and not be able to help him at all. Has anyone else's LO gone through this at almost 5 months? When will his little nervous system just figure out that he's exhausted and needs to take a little nap? Any suggestions on how to help him through it? I hate having him cry it out like this and not be able to soothe him at all.
FWIW - he falls asleep for a brief morning nap around 10 each day without a problem, so this is baffling!!
Re: Daily meltdowns!!!
At 5 months, DS was still taking 3 naps. Maybe your DS needs more sleep?
DS woke, took his first nap within two hours of getting up, took his second three hours after he woke from his first, and took his third nap three hours after his second.