Hi all - my DD is 4.5 months and we're still struggling with EASY. I also feel like I generally have to rock her to sleep for all of her naps (she still takes 4), and at night she falls asleep when I'm nursing her. I am really struggling with how to break the dependency on rocking her to sleep for naps. I'm frankly getting exhausted by how much I'm rocking/holding her and it's affecting the time I get to spend with my 3.5 year old. She is also struggling with making it past the 45 minute mark for all of her naps. So, it's especially frustrating to hold/rock her, put her down, and then deal with her waking up such a short time later. I'm not sure if this is adding to the issues, but most mornings she has to nap in her car seat because I need to bring my 3.5 year old to preschool, run errands, do play dates, etc.
I'm just kind of exhausted and starting to feel a little frustrated. I'm also struggling to determine her wake time. It recently changed/shifted in the last week. She had a 2-hour wake time (long, I know...but I'm pretty sure that's what it was), but it seems like she wants to go longer now before she falls asleep. She still takes 4 naps a day, though as she only sleeps the 45 minutes.
What is going well is she generally is asleep at night in her bed by 7:00 pm (although she does fall asleep nursing). The last couple of nights she's needed to nurse again at about 8:00 pm, but then sleeps until about 5:30 am. Sadly, she's recently stopped falling asleep again after the 5:30 wakeup/nurse session, and I'm loathe to put her back down as she's recently started this horrendously loud screeching noise that I'm afraid will wakeup her brother.
I guess I'm just feeling discouraged and worn down the last few days. It's felt like things are getting harder, not easier and I'm so exhausted at the end of the day it's crazy. Wondering if anyone has any advice!?
Thanks! -Jen