Hi Jill, feel free to follow
I think Reid is higher sleep needs than Annabel, but hopefully something will help you too. I'm pretty sure 2hrs A would be too short first thing but it would be nice to knock the EW on the head and know that we were starting out from a well-rested WU.
Kelly, I am wondering if 30mins for her is UT rather than OT. She wakes up fussing rather than crying and yes, it takes a while to get her back to sleep, whereas OT is usually more obvious that she still wants to be asleep. Her A time for quite a while was 2h30 but maybe 3 weeks ago her naps got shorter so I pushed it up to more like 3h attempting to get to 2 naps. But then I got half hour wake ups every time so I thought I'd pushed too far and she was OT, and brought it back to 2h45. Now it's hit and miss whether her naps are long or short and I can't tell if she's OT or UT
Or just keeping me on my toes
Set naps might be the way forward as I don't seem to be able to get the right A time, but that's new territory for me as I never went that way with DD1. And hard to set a time when WU is anywhere between 5:30 and 8:00. Hopefully by not feeding and getting rid of the early WU we can get more consistency. She does occasionally STTN but usually has one NW that I have fed at. Until now it's been at random times, but now it's regularly 5:30 so I do think it's habit at this point.
BT is fine, and she went down at 6:20 tonight easily. It's the only time I feed to sleep, but if she's still awake at the end of her bottle I can put her down and leave and she's fine. She has her first two bottom teeth and no sign of any more yet so I don't think she's teething, but who really knows with teeth
She doesn't tend to get grumpy, or at least not related to being tired as far as I can tell. Whenever she's been a bit cranky it corresponded with teeth and/or a wonder week. Her eyes get a bit red when she's too tired but the smiles stay