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Re: I am so desperate, can someone help me?
« Reply #285 on: November 13, 2008, 06:56:25 am »
Thanks for that,
Just realised I'm hijacking Rachael's post - sorry Rachael!
I'll keep reading to see how you're getting on and start my own thread for some needed help!
Hope things keep improving with Maya. we were up at 4.45 today!
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Re: I am so desperate, can someone help me?
« Reply #286 on: November 14, 2008, 06:58:45 am »
Updating,
Scenario A :Yesterday Maya woke at 5.10 and would not go back to sleep, the day before she had 1hr 15 mins and 10hr night followed.
Scenario B: Yesterday I put her down at 11.30 which was 6.5 A time and she slept 2hrs, bed at 6.45 and slept 11 hrs.
So now I need help with what to do, if I stick with 11.30 this may be not enough A time given the longer night and later wake time which could result in a shorter nap which means bedtime A time is too long resulting in a short night again like scenario A
Or if I do a later nap she is not getting consistency,
So any ideas how to play this?
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Re: I am so desperate, can someone help me?
« Reply #287 on: November 14, 2008, 13:10:12 pm »
Well as predicted we got an hr and 10 mins today from 11.40 to 12.50.
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Re: I am so desperate, can someone help me?
« Reply #288 on: November 15, 2008, 06:24:59 am »
Bought bedtime forward to 6.30 and up at 5.10!!!! def a pattern emrging here.  Any ideas?
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Re: I am so desperate, can someone help me?
« Reply #289 on: November 15, 2008, 09:58:29 am »
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Have you actually kept a written log of wake ups nap time/length and bedtimes.  As you say your starting to see a pattern, might be a good idea to do a log for a week or so so you can really see  the pattern clearly.
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Re: I am so desperate, can someone help me?
« Reply #290 on: November 15, 2008, 10:29:04 am »
Hi nik, I have only really kept a mental note and tbh saw no pattern previously when we were getting every day short naps, but the last 3-4 days it has been the pattern above. She had a longer night sleep last nite so it will be interesting to see how long she naps today.#
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Re: I am so desperate, can someone help me?
« Reply #291 on: November 15, 2008, 13:04:11 pm »
Ok forget my stupid theory! I thought it was too good to be true.  Maya had just 1hr 10 mins and woke perfectly happy! I will never get this right, I think i just have to resign myself to ealry mornings forever.
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Re: I am so desperate, can someone help me?
« Reply #292 on: November 15, 2008, 19:50:53 pm »
You really don't have to resign yourself to them forever, even if her routine hasn't quite stabalised yet as long as she is no longer OT you could gently push her day on, but I would do it very GENTLY like 5-10mins every 4 days or so.

That said she does seem to be getting slightly more regular in routine, I'm pretty sure as she continues to grow into 1 nap things should pretty much sort themselves out, regarding wake up and nap length :-)

Something else to bear in mind is that the whole 2-1transition thing, when it doesn't go smoothly, IMO it isn't anything to do with us getting it right, our job is damage control, their job is to grow into 1 nap and eventually we meet at the end of it all and come out the other side.
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Re: I am so desperate, can someone help me?
« Reply #293 on: November 16, 2008, 09:13:05 am »
Went for an early nt last night due to having 2 day of waking at 5 and only taking 1hr 10 mins so she was in bed for 6.15 and woke at 4.45!!!!
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Re: I am so desperate, can someone help me?
« Reply #294 on: November 16, 2008, 15:35:38 pm »
Oh dear, sorry about the early morning Rach! I agree with Nik that 5-10 mins later every 4 days or so is sensible. Did he not go back to sleep after 4:45?
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Re: I am so desperate, can someone help me?
« Reply #295 on: November 16, 2008, 15:39:16 pm »
No afraid not, we just seem to just do the same pattern over and over, I just cant ssee how I will ever push forward when we are back to short naps and ew again.
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Re: I am so desperate, can someone help me?
« Reply #296 on: November 16, 2008, 15:46:50 pm »
I don't know hun, it's so tough. I would DEFINITELY recommend you to keep a sleep log though to keep track and be able to look back for patterns and progress. I was sure you had one going actually. It helped me a lot when L was haing the same problems. I could see the patterns better and it helped me figure out what to do to improve things for us.
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Re: I am so desperate, can someone help me?
« Reply #297 on: November 17, 2008, 06:19:46 am »
Maya took an 1.5 nap yesterday but that was at 10,30 she fell asleep on my nap she was so tired.  i put her to bed at 6,15 and she woke at 4,45!!! no going back to sleep either.
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Re: I am so desperate, can someone help me?
« Reply #298 on: November 17, 2008, 07:52:06 am »
How about tryong for an early short nap and then a longer one later int he day? Just to help reset her day to a later bedtime again so you can, hopefully, get a laer wake up too. That used to work really well for us. Even if you have to do one of the naps in the car or whatever will help her sleep. You could catch up on OT this way and stop the viscious circle of getting earlier and earlier days. You could also do the longer nap first and a shorter catnap in the pm, if you think she'd do that easier.
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Re: I am so desperate, can someone help me?
« Reply #299 on: November 17, 2008, 13:25:54 pm »
Ok, I held out on nap today til 11.30 and she is still asleep 2hrs later!
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