Hi I'm looking for some help with my 6.5mo.
An average day looks like this
Wake between 6 and 6.30 - 8oz milk
7.30 breakfast
8.30 nap usually 1.5-2 hours
10.30 8oz milk
11.30/12 lunch
This is where it then goes a bit downhill
She is still stuck in 40minute naps, so 12.30/1 nap for 40 minutes
2.30 8oz
She then is tired again around 5 so I've been giving her another 40 minute nap
6pm 8oz
Bed 7-7.30
She will sleep all night however from 5am every morning is incredibly restless, kicks her legs and cries out. She stays asleep but wakes everyone else up. This is having an impact on us and my 3year old.
I would like to get down to 2 naps and get her to bed earlier but because of the 40minute afternoon nap she is too tired for that so needs the extra cat nap. Should I be waking her from that? If she does go down to 2 naps then how do I fit that around her feed at 2.30? We have only just started weaning and she is eating hardly anything at the moment.
And any idea on how to stop the restlessness at 5am. I don't know what is causing it. I have introduced a DF at about 9.30 when I go to bed in case she's stirring at 5 because she's hungry. However she will only drink 80ml and it doesn't seem to have had any effect. Should I not bother with it?
I should add that she is a very very windy baby. She will often burp hours after she's finished a feed and quite often when she wakes from a nap at 40 minutes I can tell she's still tired so wind her when she will do a few big burps and I then have to resettle her. Aside from that she is very good at getting herself to sleep without any help from me although I do use white noise for nap times.