Hello mummies (and Daddies)
I have a 1 year old baby girl (and a 3 yr old boy) who have been sharing the same miserable cold for weeks
My daughter is a late teether, and her first birthday she only had 2 bottom teeth…now she has a top 1/2 way in, the other top just coming through and white bumps as far as the eye can see (hence why I am begging for eyes on this !) as there is no near end in site.
Her current schedule looks like this as best as I can make it happen:
Wake 6am-ish
Breakfast - 7am - eating is not her favourite thing, I can usually get about 3 oz of solids into her most meals
Bottle & Nap - 9 (I try for 3 hours after wake - 1hour- 1.15min capped - usually she only drinks 3-5 oz right now
Lunch - 11am - 3 oz ish
Bottle & Nap - 1:30-ish (3-5 oz bottle is all she will take 50% homo milk/formula - 1-1.5 hour nap capped at 1.5 if needed)
Dinner - 4/4:30 - 3 ish oz of solids
Bath/Bottle/bed - 6:30-7:30 depending on tiredness
She is a very spirited angel…so transitions have always been tough for her.
She is usually night waking around 11pm & 1am…but settles herself usually in a few minutes (but with this cold I usually need to do the snot-sucker and cuddle her back to sleep because she can't breath properly and she gets very frustrated) she is still thumb sucking for comfort which I'd love to shake by now…but I digress….and then at 3:30am she wakes and won't settle without screaming like someone is trying to tear off a limb, so I usually give her a small bottle (3-5oz) because of the tremendous guilt that I feel for not getting enough food into her during the day! I try to only give her motrin at night….so I give her a dose at bath time 6pm and when she wakes for her feed at 3:30/4am. I want to try and ditch the night feedings, she started this around 10 months (not teething then) and can't seem to shake it….I'm too tired to think of how to attack this differently because between the 2 congested kids, I haven't slept in a month more than 2 hours per night.
Could she be ready for the 2-1 transition? I'm thinking no….
but on days like last night….same schedule, but she woke herself from her naps at around 45-50 mins per nap…then fussed all stuffy until 11pm, and woke at 3:30 for a bottle…so she only had 7.5 night + just under 2 hours of day sleep = 9.5 hours total….but even with that my spirited angel has had a fun smiling playful morning….(FYI my kids smile and play through almost all sicknesses/injuries, don't hate me, that's just their personalities…but sleep is another issue)
so #1 - how to I catch her up when teething/sick without getter her too much sleep (if she naps more than 2.5 in a day, she has looooooong bouts of night waking/playing/frustration when nobody wants to play with her!)
#2 - how to I navigate this to get her back on track??
any help would be so very much appreciated!
thank you for reading my rambling!
***UPDATE - she just woke herself up from her afternoon nap (went down around 1:30…awake by 2) but now laying playing and thumbsucking……*** so now she is awake at 2pm…so I guess I'll have to put her down for the night around 6pm?