My DD is almost 5 months old, and she has been pretty good about going down at BT independently. Some nights I might have to go up there once and replug her paci, but lately it's become a 1/2 hr battle of crying that escalates till we go up there. I kept thinking it was because of her rolling on to her tummy, but she has since gotten used to sleeping on her tummy and had a few nights where she fell asleep on her own on her tummy. I am starting to think that her long afternoon naps might be the issue. I could never get her to conform to EASY the way it should be, but she established her own routine that works.
I work full time, so I will post her M-F schedule below; weekends can be slightly different (usually only the morning is different though);
WU/E: 6:30
S: 7:15-7:45 (in the car on the way to the babysitter's)
E: 10
S: 10:30-11:30
E: 2
S: 2/2:30- 5:30..not F2S though (she is usually still sleeping or just waking up when I pick her up at 5, and then she falls back asleep for 30 mins in the car)
E: 6
BT: 7:30 (but often it's 8-8:30 till she's asleep)
She is starting to STTN more and more, but she sometimes wakes at 3 or 4 and needs to be resettled, usually just a paci replug. She hasn't had a NF in a while.
I think her really long afternoon naps are causing issues at BT. I'm realizing that she probably needs a longer A time, but because I have to get her up by 6:30 every morning, I don't want to push out her BT or should I?
I feel like I have 2 options:
1. Let her naps remain as is and move her BT to 8. The issue here is that I can't keep moving back her BT forever!
2. Change her feeds to 10:30 and 2:30 so her afternoon naps is shorter. Not sure if that will do it though because no matter what she'll have 30 mins in the car from 5-5:30 and she generally sleeps.
Anyone have any other ideas? Or think one of my options will work better than the other?
