Is my routine right? Why wont she nap more than 30min

[Rubycino]

I am new to this site, but have read Tracy's 3rd book front to back and back to front about 3 times now!

I have a 5 3/4 lo who i have great difficulty in getting her to sleep during the day. I figure if i post her routine someone may be able to help or provide suggestions as to what i am doing wrong.

General Day is as follows:

5:00 - 5:30 Wake (try to leave and not attend till the crying starts)
5:30 - 6:00 Bottlefeed (approx 5 Oz's) Back to bed with me (i feed the bottle in bed with me and she dozes straight back to sleep until DH gets up at 7am)
7:00 Wake and Activity (often watching DH get ready for work)
8:00 Breakfast (Fruit and Rice Cereal with some water if she is thirsty)
9:00 Bed (enter the nursery at 8:50 and commence wind down of wrapping, reading a story and then put into cot and pat and shush until she gets sleepy)
9:45ish Wake (try to re settle by attempting to PU/PD but ends up in tears and lots of them - try for 30 min) Sometimes she wakes happy and others really tired still
10:15 Activity
11:00 Bottle 5 Oz's
12:30 Lunch (Veggies)
1:00 Bed (wind down started at 12:50 same as above)
2:00 wakes and chats/mantra cries for 30 min (Today i then tried to resettle with PU/PD and she ended up screaming to the point she vomited)
2:30 Activity
3:00 Bottle
3:30 Activity
5:00 Bed 30 min cat nap
5:30 Dinner
6:00 Bed time routine (if it is not bath night we go for a walk in the pram)
7:00 Bottle 3-5 Oz's (since starting solids she is taking less here and more at the dream feed)
7:15ish Bed
10:30 Dreamfeed (4-5Oz's)

Next Day over again!

Am i doing something wrong or does this all seem normal? She has not cut any teeth but i think they are bothering her. She has never slept more than a 45 min stint during the day but is able to self settle during the night. Her room is black with blockout on the windows etc. We wrap her but i know she can sleep with out as she has before. She use to sleep from the 10:30 DF to 7 am when we would wake her now she is wide awake at 5? Sometimes i think this has to do with her day sleeps being poor.

Any advice would be great...

[Rubycino]

Thanks Stacy for the input. This morning she woke at 3:30 and babbled till 4pm when she then started to cry. DH and I decided to give her some panadol thinking her teeth may be affecting her. She was still awake and refused to go back to sleep. DH fed her a bottle at 4:30 which she took the whole 7ozs. I think you are right she is hungry as she also took the full 7oz at the dreamfeed as she refused the 7pm bottle as at 5:30 she had a huge amount of veggies.

We started her on solids 3 weeks ago as she was showing a huge interest in food (stealing my apple etc and can also hold herself pretty well. The health nurse we see in Australia also suggested it was a good idea.) She is also quite a large baby 8kgs. We started off slowley with week one just breaky and then week 2 dinner also and now lunch. I think you are right about eating too much and then getting out of sinc. I will drop the lunch feed as that is the one she is least use to and see how we go.

I also have offered her milk today as part of breaky and she took far less fruit and has had about 2ozs so we will wait and see.

About her nap times i think she also is not tired by the 9am mark and therefore has less sleep 45 min and is ready to go but then gets tired again before the next sleep is due at 1pm. So will have to play with this.

Will keep you posted and thanks for you advice.

Amy

[Rubycino]

Now i am really baffled. Maybe there is something else going on that i am not aware of?

Today she had breakie at 8am along with bottle as detailed above. I tried to keep her up 15 min more at 9 and put her to bed around 9:15. She screamed and screamed and after yesterdays attempt where she vomited i have not pushed the PU/PD. She has taken all her bottles today of 7 oz's at 5am, 11 am 3 pm and has refused sleep until she crashed at 11 am while finishing the bottle but only slept 25 min as she fell asleep having the bottle and again at 3 pm fell asleep.

However today she has started to crawl and is far more interested in this than sleeping. The minute i get near her room for wind down she hits the roof. Any ideas???

[Rubycino]

Thanks Stacy

I did end up dropping the dinner feed as she was asleep (after crashing she had 1.5 hours sleep from 3 till 4:30 and then had to collect DH from work). She did take all her bottles as you predicted. THis morning i just gave her a small bowl of cereal along with another bottle of milk which she took 2 ozs (she had a feed of 6ozs at 6am). I am still strugling today though to get her down for the morning nap.

I went to the nursery at 8:45am as she woke at 5:45am fed and then slept from 6:30 till 7:30am. She seemed to be getting tired however was not interested in a story book and managed to lay there by herself playing with her Paci until 9:25. By which time she now refuses sleep.

I do get confused with PU/PD even though i have read the BW book as she seems to get more and more uncontrolable when she cries rather than settles. She is so strong willed that i am not sure how long to continue with PU/PD if she gets to the point of vomiting?

Any ideas?

Thanks
Amy