Honestly Her schedule is all over the place.
She has a "typical day" but no "schedule"
We wake her up between 8 and 10:30 am
then we change her diaper
then when she gets fussy (about 30 - 60 mins later) we feed her breakfast (with sippy practice)
then we play (started doing head solders knees and toes!)
then she gets a snack
whenever she gets fussy again about 30 - 60 mins later she gets a snack
then diaper change
then 9 oz baba of milk & nap time, I only let her sleep for a hour.
Her naps are anywhere between 12pm and 2pm (so example, if she gets up at 8, her nap will be at 12, and she will sleep till 1 when I wake her up)
Then it's wake up time
diaper change
wait till shes fussy and feed her lunch with sippy,
then snack time.
then play play play play play
between 6 and 8 pm is dinner
bath is between 7 and 9
Before bed snack
sometimes I get her to bed at 8 sometimes its 9
But she doesn't sleep for long, the night before last I got her up at 10:45 am
did the usual thing, and she was in bed at 8:30, and woke up 3 times before finally passing out for the night at 12 pm.
We're trying something new, figured the only things that really matter are what time she wakes up (because if that's a consistant time, so is nap time) and our bed time routine.
I did not know you guys didn't support CIO, I did try it, one time, did the walk in, walk out, and walking in and walking out made it MUCH MUCH MUCH WORSE. I lasted maybe 30 mins, and I was like "I can't do this" and caved in.
But your right, I wanna try everything else I can...
When we put her to bed, she lays across my lap (like a baby baby) with a baba in her mouth, and passes out while shes's eating, then when she's done, I rock her all the way to sleep, and transfer her. When she crys at night, I get up, I go get her, and the process repeats. Sometimes she fights going to sleep, she will LOOK asleep, but the SECOND I stand up, or the SECOND i'm standing right next to her crib, her face goes from sleepy and eyes closed, to O____O EYES WIDE OPEN like she just drank a cup of coffee, and she's looking around.
Later starts work best for me, I'd prefer her to be in bed and asleep at 9 pm though, no matter the cost!
Even if I have to get up at 6 am.
She's passed out on her own before, but only 1 or 2 times, and with a baba in her mouth, after me refusing to feed her her baba, i'd sit it on the floor, and told her if she was hungry, she'd eat. And she did, and she passed out. Haven't seen her do it sense, and this was months ago.
all the questions are great, ask anything and everything you need to ask!!!
I NEED to figure this out.
Today we did things a bit different,
We did everything as usual, but we're doing bed time different.
1 hour before dinner, (5pm) we walked around the house, and said "Good night" to everything and hand over hand had her turn off the lights in each room. (If it was a off light, i'd turn it on first, then turn it off and say I would say good night (room!) see you in the morning!"
Now we have light mellow music on. All the lights are off.
When we go to put her to bed, we're going to do the normal, 6 pm dinner, 7 pm bath, then baba, and instead of rocking her fully to sleep, im going to go put her in her crib, and daddy and I are going to sit on her floor and take turns reading books.
( I did a LOT of reading on this site last night while I was up with her trying to get her to sleep all the way, got both ideas for nini room, and sitting in her room (both of us) from this site!!)
Hope I answered all your questions, I am looking forward to your reply!!!!!