I have a few questions relating to EW and OT. We've had issues in the past with early naps causing NW and EW so I've always tried pushing nap as late as possible until I couldn't push it further due to my older son's school pick up time. Since then (or maybe just always), we've had issues with EW and sometimes NW. I always just nursed her back to sleep as it was usually just once a night/early am but lately she either takes forever (1+ hours) to go back down (if she wakes around 3/4 am) and if she wakes between 5/6 she won't go back down at all. We've had teething and vacation so things are really off now. She refused a nap in the car yesterday and fell asleep at 7:45 pm after a 14 hour day, woke at 2:20 am, finally nursed back to sleep at 3 am, woke again at 5:45 am (I think, she may have been awake earlier!), so we're basically in disaster mode.
1) she was seriously OT yesterday but refused to sleep all day on a 7 hour car ride and fell asleep waaay after her normal bed time (still in the car). How is this possible? Is this normal? She would not sleep even 30 mins for a whole car ride, despite quiet from all in the car, white noise, soothing songs, rubbing forehead etc. How can she not finally fall asleep at some point for her nap??? (Excuse the frustration here it was a looong car ride) 😊
2) In these cases (way OT from vacation, etc) do I put her down waaaay early (11:30 or so) or just a few mins early (12).
3) We previously had pushed nap to 12:15/12:20 but have been getting so many EW that it slipped back to 12 and we still have EW so I feel like I'm stuck at this time. I get the feeling that the early nap is perpetuating the EW but don't know how to get out of that cycle if she keeps EW and can't take a later nap. Before I'd nurse her back to sleep in the am and then be able to put her down for a later nap but now she won't even nurse back to sleep.
Ok I think that's it! 😊 Thank you!