Thanks
Yeah, she's usually tired in the mornings at the moment, poor thing really struggling with teething at night
But then she'll switch between periods of looking tired and sleepy and being really lively, problem is of course when the lively comes at nap time
But she always seems to be able to crash at the CM, even if she goes down a bit later
Yes we kind of have to wake her every morning, since she's in with us - I actually sleep in the living room on days when I work so that I can get myself up and dressed and have breakfast before I absolutely need to get her up in order to bf and get her dressed and out (with cereal bar and squeezy yoghurt whilst getting ready - no time for a sit down breakfast for her!) so I can't let her sleep those days. DH won't sleep in the living room and has to be up by 7am at the latest to get to work, DD sleeps so lightly there's no way she'd sleep through that but in practice she's been waking early recently anyway, usually upset. Then at the weekend even if we wanted a lie in it's tricky to do that with DS as we don't feel it's fair on him to expect him to stay in bed beyond 7am, when that's the time we get him up during the week. Even if we set his gro clock later just in case DD managed to sleep in, she'd likely just wake early anyway and then he'd be pretty annoyed at us
Thanks for B's routine, yeah I aim for consistency with actual times rather than A times but with the lack of settling for naps it doesn't really happen
I think she needs something like this:
WU 6:45
Nap 12:30-3
BT 6:45
For the moment anyway, I suspect she needs around 14.5h - she needed 15h for ages then I think her needs dropped a bit whilst she was still on 2 naps but went back up to more like 15h again as she adjusted to being on one nap. I'm thinking I need to be prepared for her to drop down to more like 14h before long, but as you say with all this teething, she's definitely more tired and will need to catch up.
Actually forgot to say that her settling last week was generally much better, but she didn't take such good naps - some were interrupted by visitors going to the loo next to her room (difficult to ask them not to
) and others seemed to be teething pain. Anyway, that week she was up at 7am and the better settling naps were at 12:40pm. So to give her a chance to have the 2.5h naps that I feel she's happiest after, now that school is back on, I thought I'd start getting her up a little earlier.
Yesterday went like this:
WU I didn't even look at the time, knew it was earlier than I wanted
got up 7am
Nap PD 12:30, messed around until finally fell asleep 1:50
had to wake 3pm
miserable afternoon!
BT 6:30 I couldn't do any earlier
Night - pretty bad!
WU I was in living room and DH didn't look
but when I got up and turned monitor on at 6:15 she was already awake and chatting
Went a bit quiet for periods but never properly back to sleep. Up at 7.
Nap at CM: 12:20-14:45 (straight to sleep, natural wake) Really tired on collection
BT straight down at 6:20 crashed!
So...yeah, I guess not entirely consistent, but she's such an OT wreck right now I don't want to push her any more
BT is tricky, depending on the day and how cooperative she is and how disruptive DS is, we might be able to get her down closer to 6pm for a catch up when needed, but on my work days it can't be earlier than 6:45 really and that's why I feel I can't really be consistent when BT on those days is later than ideal...
And yes, I've been giving ibuprofen before every nap and BT, for probably way too long now
but if it's a short NW/nap wake (and they do tend to be), we just use teething gel for that immediate relief - always found that giving her meds wakes her up even more and extends the nw
However I think when the teeth are actually cutting that the gel must really sting at first, before it starts to numb
Oh sorry I'm badly rambling again, so tired and coldy today!