This is something we've been having on and off for the last little while... DD, who is 21 months, will have EW for a few days, then revert to normal for a few days, it keeps going like that, but the EW are now getting earlier and earlier - 5:20 this morning! Basically she's been sleeping 9h30 to 10h a night which I really don't think is enough for her!
Here's our routine on a good day:
W: 6:30
E: 8:00
E: 11:15
S: 12:15-2:15
E: 5:45
S: 7:30
On bad days, the nap is shorter (we have a chronic short nap issue at home where she now naps approx 1h, while at daycare she's around 2h) and she might wake up around 5:30. Her bedtime also sometimes is 7PM if she's too tired, or 8 PM if she slept well of if it just falls that way.
She's not sick and might have been teething but nothing major that I know of. She's usually quite happy and in a good mood, although on the week-ends we can see that she gets very tired by the end of the day due to the short naps.
In the morning when she wakes, she cries and if we don't pick her up within a few minutes, it escalates quite fast to a distress cry. It's been that way for a while but since she was waking up at a "regular" time, it was not an issue for us to pick her up quickly, but now it's getting quite annoying. We've tried going to see her and explaining that it's still night time and mommy and daddy are sleeping but it really just escalates the crying.
Do you have ideas of what we can do to help her get more sleep? I'm scared that she'll get into an OT cycle if this continues (and she might already be in it!).
thanks!
