hi everyone,
we're just on the tail end of the 6-month growth spurt and my daughter's naps are changing. i'm wondering what i should do? here's our previous schedule:
6:30AM - wake
7:00AM - feed
8:30AM - sleep
10:00AM - wake and feed
12:15PM/12:30PM - sleep
2:00PM - wake and feed
4:15PM - sleep
5:00PM - wake and small feed
6:15PM - bath
6:30PM - last feed
7:15PM - bed (she'd be asleep by around 7:30)
this worked really well for about two months. she was sleeping through the night! the schedule has changed a little in that i've added solids but that was weeks ago and actually made her sleep better. i think that this problem with naps is A time. she is now cutting her morning nap to 45 minutes and i can't extend it. her afternoon nap still tends to be 1.5 hours, and she has kept the cat nap.
so here's her schedule for the past few days:
7:00AM - wake and feed, solids at 8:15
9:00AM - sleep
9:45AM - wake
10:15/10:30AM - feed, solids at 11:30
12:15/12:30PM - sleep
2:00PM - wake and feed
4:15PM - sleep
4:45PM - wake
5:00PM - cereal and expressed BM
6:15PM - bath
6:30PM - last feed
7:00PM - bed (asleep anywhere from right away to 7:45.. depending on how she's feeling)
the last few nights she has awoken at random times starving and i've fed her only after checking to make sure it's not something else bothering her. i think that these night feeds will go away though once she's totally through her growth spurt.
i'm curious about the nap situation though. i think that she's trying to make the transition to 2 naps, so i was wondering if i should lengthen her morning A time to 2.5 hours? she did sleep till around 7 both the past two days and that's a small miracle in and of itself. as you can see, her second A time is pretty long and she does this with little to no problem.