Hi! That schedule sounds amazing! She falls asleep between 6:25 and 8, most of the time it's between 6:44 and 7 pm. I feel like 1) she needs time to wind down for night time and 2) she gets easily overstimulated if her bed time is later because wakeup is sooo early. I've tried putting her down later and it ends up taking longer for her to fall asleep more often than not. I would love a 7:30 BT but when she wakes at 5/5:30 it's just too long and leads to her taking forever to fall asleep and, I feel, causes the really long wakeup at night.
For example, day before yesterday by the time I put her down, she had been awake just over 11 total hours. She fell asleep in 20 mins and woke at about 5:20 am, still early but a decent night. Yesterday, she had been awake for a total of 11.5 hours and it took 1h15m for her to fall asleep and she's now been awake for 45 mins at 2 am. The first night, her nap was longer and A time before putting down was just over 4 hours. The second night, her nap had been a few minutes shorter and A time before putting down was almost 4.5, so she should have been more tired, but it seems to me she was overtired and couldn't settle.
So I'm in this vicious cycle of her wakeup time being soooo early that she's way OT by the time we get to bed and therefore takes forever to fall asleep and has horrible middle of night wakings (1-2 hours), which then just leads to more OT/OS. I could be totally wrong, but that's the only sense I can make of it.
Soooo, how do I get BT later? Just keep doing what I'm doing and gradually push nap and night later, hoping wakeup gets later? She has always seemed to like a loooong A time before nap and a shorter one before bed. I agree it's too short, but not sure I have much choice at this point?
Thank you and sorry for the novel!