7 1/2 month old nw and ew

[becj86]

What are her days looking like now?

[Jo1stbaby]

Wake up - 4 -4.30 sometimes she will cone into bed with us and sleep an extra hour.
E - 7am bottle 3/4oz
E - 8am breakfast cereal/toast
S - 9.30am anything from 1/2hr - 1 1/2hr
E - 11am 6oz bottle
E - lunch
S - 1.30pm (depends on how long her sleep was in the morning, so sometimes slightly earlier sometimes later) will only generally sleep for 1/2hr max hour
E - 3pm 6oz
S - try to get her to sleep so etines will have 1/2hr most of the time just resists
E - 4pm/4.30pm dinner
5.00 bath bottle bed by 6pm
I've tried bed at 5.30pm its all hit and miss though sometimes a good night ish or sometimes an awful night.

She has had a bad belly last few days and diarraha so maybe she's had a little belly ache for a good few days and also just noticed a another top tooth has popped through so could be she's had a little irritation.

[becj86]

Ok, that's quite a low amount of sleep - she's probably quite overtired.

Are you able to resettle the 30min nap wakings at all?

[Jo1stbaby]

No, she won't have it.  It i get in her room after about 25mins sometimes I can hold her chest or arms and she will sleep through, that's when we get the 1 - 1 1/2hr naps but doesn't always work.  The afternoon nap is the hardest nap she fights its so much even when she is shattered.  She will drop off a few times but jerk herself awake and the whole circle starts again. If we ap we can sometimes get her to sleep for an hour in our arms in the afternoon.  I was on 2hr 45 mins a time which I've slowly up't to 3 1/2hrs.

[becj86]

Has she always slept badly for naps/night? Sorry, there are so many with the same issues at the moment my head spins.

[Jo1stbaby]

Morning, always slept badly for naps.  Always fight and we did AP a lot at the behining because she had colic really bad, didn't get better until we saw a cranial osteopath.  Still always fought it after that a lot out fault I think with APing. 

Nights haven't been too bad in the past.  We use to think she slept fairly well at night. She use to go to bed at 7pm, wake at 12 -1am (didn't use todo dreamfeed) then wake about 3/4am and then up at 6am.  We didn't think tht was too bad for her when she was only a few months old.  Then we started dreamfeed and she did bed at7pm, dreamfeed at 10pm wske up and bottle at 3am and wake up for day at 6am.

Over the last few months from about 5 months her sleep has just been awful.

[becj86]

Ok. I think you need to work on the OT and independent sleep. Here's how I'd do it:

Morning nap - APOP'd to get some sleep into her and get her body used to sleeping at that time
Afternoon nap - GW type sleep training with HTTJ to try and get her to extend the nap
BT - again, GW

Routine-wise, I'd try something like this:
6 - up for the day (doze/rest if wakes before then)
9 - APOP your morning nap
10:30/11 - wake
1:30/2 - PM nap
3hr A to BT (EBT if you have to - treat all wakes as night wakings til 6am next morning)
You can shift that to start at 7 if you prefer, of course.

If the morning nap is short, this:
6 - up for the day (doze/rest if wakes before then)
9 - APOP your morning nap
9:45/10 - wake
12:30 - PM nap
~~~~APOP a CN at 3:30 if PM nap is less than 45min - 2.5hr A to BT from WU from 3rd nap~~~~
3hr A to BT (EBT if you have to - treat all wakes as night wakings til 6am next morning)

What do you think?

[Jo1stbaby]

Ok, sounds like a plan ill give it a go.  Anything that can help is worth a try.  Ill let you know how it goes

[becj86]

I think it will hopefully be the right balance for you and her. Fingers crossed for you.