My nearly 9 month old just went through a period where she was waking at 6:15, then 6:08, then 5:55 then 5:30 a.m. and THEN 4:30 a.m.! Our wake time is 6:30. She had been on three naps and when this first began I thought she needed to move to two naps. I think I messed everything up by moving to quickly and drastically to two naps and I was also putting her to bed too late. (I figured this out by reading other postings that said OT can show up slowly over time.) With this in mind, I began putting her to bed at night much earlier the past few days and putting her down for naps sooner. She has now begun sleeping from 6:15 p.m. to 6:30 a.m.. Yeah! And her second nap of the day is two hours (or more). However, I'm having some serious trouble still with nap number 1 and cannot figure out what is going on. Yesterday, she yawned at 8:35 so I put her for her nap (I had been waiting until 9:30). She went down fine, but was awake in an hour (not a long enough nap for two naps a day). Today, I thought that maybe she could handle going down a bit later since she is getting 12+ hours at night. So, I put her down at 9:00 (though she didn't seem tired yet, I think). Again, she was awake within an hour. I know that I should post my routine, but this is hard b/c we've been transitioning so much the past few days. My "ideal" routine that I'm trying to get to is this:
6:30 wake (when she wakes early I don't allow her to begin the day at that time) - bottle
7:30 solids
9:15 nap
11:15 wake from nap and have bottle
12:30 solids
2:00 nap
4:00 wake from nap and have bottle
5:30 bottle
5:50 solids
6:00 bath and then bed by 6:15
Any ideas what I need to do now??? Up until this moment, we've followed Tracy's methods to a T and always been on a routine so she knows how to sleep etc.
