Zara is now 9.5 mo
. She knows how to go to sleep independantly, and is now learning to go to sleep with assistance (pregnant mummy with high risk of bed rest). I am being careful to do independant much more than the other, but I need the option.
Anyway. When she is home for the day, she usually does something like the following:
Wake - between 4:30 and 6:30 - I am trying to push this out to 6:30, 5ish is most common.
Bfast Bottle at about 6ish
Bfast 6:30ish (but she has refused this the last 3 days).
Nap 8/9ish depending on wakeup and tired signs - usually about 2 hrs, but if has been home alot of days, drops it down to 45 mins
Lunch 11:30ish
Nap: 1:30ish depending on AM nap though
Bottle 3ish
Dinner 6:ish
Bedtime bottle 7:15
7:30 bed.
Sleep through only if not teething or ill etc
But for 3 days per week she is at daycare with the following routine.
Same wakeup etc breakfast etc
Then nap 1 9ish - 30-45mins
Morning tea when wakes
Same lunch time
Bottle about 1ish,
Nap 1:30ish only 30-45 mins
After noon tea at about 2:30
Then 5:30ish I give her a nap at home - and usually I don't like to wake her she wakes herself after an hour or so.But then bedtime can be a challenge.
Dinner and bedtime same.
My concerns are - her natural wake and bedtime are 5am and 6pm. I have pushed bedtime out to 7:30 and am trying to get her to sleep in til 6/6:30. Not all that successful so far. But she is waking very happy early, despite the shorter night.
Am I doing the wrong thing by pushing her to change, especially when she gets so little sleep at daycare. Or am I right to offer that extra nap, then continue working on a routine timing that is more suitable to us as a family. The one she wants allows pretty much no Daddy time 4 days per week, and is very hard to get her to bed on time when we don't get home til after 5pm on daycare days.
So, now is when you tell me I am doing all the wrong things, or reassure me that I am doing OK.
