Okay, I'm at a loss
Marie, I'm back again...
dd is almost 16 months old and has never been a good sleeper. It's a battle we've been fighting (and losing) since she was born. The past few months, however, her naps extended to an hour and forty five minutes on a good day and she would get about 11 or 12 hours of sleep at night--though she would get up for a bottle around five am.
These past few days though, she's clearly overtired, and I have no idea what to do. She started by gettinig up and staying up for two hours in the middle of the night. Her nap has gone to an hour and a half, tops. I have been putting her in her crib at seven, and she yaps to herself until nine pm. She doesn't cry, just talks to herself. On Tuesday night, she still woke up at four and stayed awake until six. Wedesday night she woke up at five thirty, had her bottle, and went back to sleep till 8 am. Last night though, I was ready to give her away. She yapped until nine pm, slept until 11pm, and then was up until THREE THIRTY in the morning. I didn't know what to do. Then she only slept until nine am, and had a one hour and twenty minute nap. I put her down tonight at six pm, to make up for the lost sleep. She slept until six thirty, cried a bit, we did wiwo, and she settled down, she cried again about twenty minutes later and we did wiwo again, and now it's nine twenty, and she's still yapping to herself.
Last night, she was hysterical. Laughing out loud at nothing, kicking, etc--the way you get when you're crazy tired. I should mention, that we have tried everything starting when she was nine monhts old. We did pd for three weeks with no success, wiwo for two weeks with little success, and then I started my own version of gradual withdrawal which worked a couple of months ago but has since lost its charm. She's going to sleep independently, it just takes her HOURS to do it. Am I missing something?
Her routine right now (VERY LOOSE) is like so
5 or 6 am--bottle
8 am--wake
8:30--breakfast
11:15--lunch
11:40--bottle and nap She normall falls asleep around 12:15 or 12:30pm
1:45-2:00pm--wake and snack
5:00--dinner
6:00-6:45pm--bath, and night time wind down
6:45-7pm, bed
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much...