Thing is, she's not missing a feed. On a 4-hr EASY and a 12 hr day a baby will have 4 feeds in a day (say 7, 11, 3, 6.30), and Audrey has average 7 feeds in 24 hrs, sometimes 8. So on a good day when she actually has breakfast, she will do say 7.30, 11, 2.30 or 3, 6, "DF" (or earlier if she wakes for it) and then 2 more feeds. Her day isn't really that short, often it's 11.5hrs, it's just that we almost always need an early-ish BT because of how her naps fall. Often I'm putting her in bed at 6.30 but she may not actually fall asleep until 6.45. For example, today she woke up at just gone 7, so unless she skips her catnap entirely it will be an 11.5hr day. If a baby can go to sleep at 7 and get a 10.30 DF, Audrey should be able to go 6.30 til 10.
If we do another catnap, bedtime is going to end up really late. She wakes from her catnap around 5, then would be ready for another catnap at 6.30, but then won't be ready for bed until 8 at the earliest and will be awake and wanting attention while I'm putting Stan to bed, and that's really the only quality time he and I get, most days. Unless I'm missing something? Brain obviously isn't working very well today...
I'm just going to push her to six hours, try and make it work somehow, hope it won't take too many nights. She's not going to do it by herself, and I can't just wait for her to outgrow it, it could take months. Stan will just have to be tired. I can't see any other way. It's not unreasonable to want and expect a longer stretch of sleep by this point, it's just frustrating that it has to come to lots of crying when she is supposedly angel/textbook, and missed sleep for Stan.
