Ok ladies, I'm back and at a total loss. Things have not improved, rather they have gotten worse. For the past 1-2 weeks, I have been getting 9-10 hr nights max! That puts wake up anytime between 4 and 5am
Naps have been anywhere from 1hr15min-2hrs. I feel like the day is shot from the minute we wake, as I am already at a 14hr day with a 6pm BT....which I never do btw, as baby will just wake at 330 (which she did do one day last week). The earliest I will go is 630pm. I try my very best to not put down for nap before 11am, so generally it's around 11am. I realize that this is early, but given that we've already been up since 4 or 5, I can't really stretch that too much more. A 2 hr nap has us waking at 1pm, so even a 6hr A to BT still only puts us at 7pm BT, which won't do us any good in pushing WU a tad later. I'm totally stuck. I have been advised to totally ditch a second nap, but I just don't know how to get out of this routine. LO has always been LSN, but she seemed to switch overnight from needing a 10-10.5 hr night, to a 9-10hr night. LO is 16 months btw. Do I need to stretch all of her As, or cut her nap, or both?
? Please please any advice from BTDTmoms would be appreciated! I'll add that when she wakes at this time, I generally ignore, as me going in signals to her that it's time to party. I have tried a bottle at this time, and a lullaby seahorse which lights up and plays music for a bout 5 minutes before turning off. This has provided minimal success.