Now that Lilly stays awake longer, her schedule is all out of whack. While she stays awake longer (sometimes 2hrs+) she is still only sleeping for 45mins or 1hr max. This means that her 3rd nap ends around 4pm and she normally goes to bed at 6.30. (prev she was having 4naps as only stay awake 1 and half hour max) This is too long before bed, so ends up cranky and doesn't go to sleep or sleep well, or if I put her to bed early, she wakes after 45min and then takes ages to settle and seems restless all night.
Routine last few days as follows:
Awake - 7am
E 7:15
S 8:30-9.30
E 10:30/11
S 12 - 1
E 2:30
S 3-4
this is where I get confused. Our usual routine, no matter what the rest of the day looks like is usually this
E 4:15
Bath 5:30
Bed windown
E 6:15
S 6:45
the reason I do E at 4:15 then 6:15 is that I don't DF - never worked for us and doesn't make a diff with her sleep so this way I ensure she gets enough calories. Technically on 4hr easy, but sometimes she is hungry or it will interfer with nap so I feed her before.
If anyone has any advice I would appreciate it. Or is extend naps the ony option? I have managed to get her to an hour from 45 this week and am still working on it. Very hard as she wakes up happy as Larry!
