Sleep questions - 22 week old (adjusted 18 weeks)
As mentioned in a post a while ago, DS is a big sleeper - but I'm becoming confused about his morning naps. Here's last night's schedule (all feeds are BF):
bath, feed and down for bed by 6:50 (we very rarely let bedtime go past 7pm)
11pm - feed (I get him)
4am - feed (he wakes me via baby monitor - I don't let him get to crying stage (mostly because I find that I lay awake listening and it's easier to just feed), I just hear that he's up - this feed can happen anytime between 4am-6am)
7am-ish - heard him happily talking to self so I did not go in (it would be unusual for him to want to get up at this time or to feed at this time) and he must have settled himself after about 20-25 minutes
9am - heard him via monitor - again not crying but this is normal wake-up (between 8am-9am) - wakes up with a huge smile which is pretty typical if he's well rested
got up - nappy change, big feed, play together
9:30-9:45ish - he started rubbing eyes, red around eyes - now, about 4 weeks ago he was rarely up for more than 1 hour before morning nap but he has been stretching it, but not today....
10am - I wrapped him (he still prefers swaddling) and put him down. Now he did not cry but sounds something like a cat in heat - this went on for 15 minutes (basically up until right now) and then he stopped and started babbling (no crying at all). I'll check him in about 5 but I'm fairly certain he'll go to sleep and probably will be for 1:30-2 hours
Did he "need" to go down at 10am - that's hardly any awake time - I'm confused as his tired signs are telling me one thing and the clock is telling me another. Am I forcing him to sleep when he doesn't need to be and when he'd rather be stimulated? or am I really following his tired signs and doing the right thing by putting him down so that he gets the sleep he needs? Would he actually cry if he wasn't happy? (and he does cry when he's not happy about other things - like being in the pram when he wants to be held, etc.)
Also, completely separate question - even though he is completely wrapped - he has started to twist - not flip - but twist - I've gone in there and found him lying at an angle with his neck really twisted/bent - again, he's still on back and back of head is still on cot but he's all tilted. He seems fine but it looks so uncomfortable. Can't be good for his neck - if that was me, I'd wake up with such an ache in my neck!