After bouncing between 2 and 3 naps and lots of OT/UT cycles and 45 min naps, I think I can finally finally say after 7whole months some sort of a routine seems to have formed this week.. OT night wakenings seem to have stopped and she's back to sleeping from bed to 4/5am then back down until wake, waking crying an hour after bed is lessening, However I'm now getting drama at bedtime- she knows how to self settle amazingly well when the conditions are right and goes down for both naps without a peep but has been crying a lot at bedtime so what needs tweaked?
The past couple of days have looked roughly like this give or take 20mins depending on wu:
Night feed: anywhere between 3-5.30am
7.30: Wake:
8.00:BFeed: usually just thirsty and takes some foremilk here as full up from night feed
8.30: offer breakfast but rarely eats much
10.00: takes a full breastfeed or about 6oz of expressed
10.20-11.20: (sometimes hour and a half but rarely) nap -is usually seeming very tired by now
12.30: lunch
1.30: takes full bottle of 8oz expressed
2.20-4:nap, occasionally sleeps to 4.20
5: breast feed one side
5.30: dinner
6.30: breast feed other side and recently has been needing topped up with bottle too.
7-8??bed depending on when she woke up.
I've been aiming to have her in bed for 3hrs after wakening from nap but she screams the min I put her down and if I pick her up she just laughs and starts playing and chatting.. I think she maybe needs longer A time before bed? But also worry it's OT behavior as at other times of the day if you put her to bed early she just plays? She has just recently been feeding alot too and will regularly take 10+ oz between 5 and 7pmi think she prob needs more solids but she knows her own mind and only eats what she wants so I can't force it. Some days she bareley wants solids!
She never seems overly tired before any naps or bed just now as she's a bit if an angel/text book so it's hard to tell. Sometimes I think she's just playing wanting up!
