About to loose it...30 minute napper

[huby]

Hello there,

Yes, I do. You suss one thing out and then there's something else...always. Last night she slept much better -opps, better go, she's crying....
back again, she's just not settling well at nights anymore when she used to just fine.
Yes, i think you're right, and it is the teething, she has two bottom teeth cutting through - one out, the other cutting now, so she must have been in pain. She slept much better last night, woke once at 1am cried for a second or two and put herself back to sleep and slept solidly until her usual 5.30am wake up. I left her in her cot until 6am when she started to cry, so got her up to start the day....she was FULL of beans. Sigh. Then went for a 1.5 hour nap at 9am, waking at 10.30 and seemed happy enough.
I got her to take a 20 min and a 45 min nap in the car around her lunchtime nap time (we were out visiting relatives) and she's now in bed an hour late (we got caught in traffic on the way home) but has settled now.

I find it difficult as many people's babies i know seem to have settled into a routine of sleeping 12 hours at night and taking two naps a day and I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

The NW I think was pain though, you're right, from the teething. Hope tonight is better for her and us.

Is your EW getting any better - any ideas how long it typically takes to sort out or for 'em to get it?

[Love, laughter, & PJs]

Ok, glad the NWs are better and at least you can say they're probably from pain.  Are you giving her meds at bedtime?  That helps Austin so much, I think.

I know it seems like everyone else's babies are STTN without an issue.  I felt (feel!) the same way.  But a lot of those people also do CIO or other techniques that I don't agree with.  And sometimes you find when you actually ask they say, oh yes she STTN but we bring her into bed with us at 3am, or he sleeps in the swing from 10pm on, etc etc!  You're doing the best thing for her by being sensitive to what she needs.   She will STTN, I promise!  I NEVER thought we would get there and we're finally here.

Our EWs are on and off, mostly on.   Although I did get an 11h night last night, finally!  To be honest I'm afraid that some babies just do this EW thing and I'm afraid DS might be one of them.  I'm actually capping his daytime sleep at 2.5h for a few days to see if that will help.  Perhaps that's what got me the extra half hour this morning.  (During which I was lying awake in bed, of course!!)  But it seems your DD isn't getting a ton of daytime sleep so I don't know that that would work for her.  What's her typical total naptime at the moment?

I hope tonight is better!!

[huby]

Her naps are awful. One good morning naps perhaps of 1.5 and afternoon nap of 45 typically. Sometimes we get a catnap in if we can.
She's just all over the place. We try get her to sleep when we can, her morning sleep is still, IO feel, despite waiting until 9am, an extension of her nighttime sleep. Afternoon naps are always short as consequence perhaps.
She just keeps on waking at 5.30 am? Do u think an even earlier bedtime would help - perhaps getting her into bed for 6.45ish, i can do my best to get her to settle earlier?
She used to wake at 5.30 and put herself backt to sleep but not anymore. She was exhausted this morning as soon as she woke ip - yawning and rubbing eyes from the first minute, so wondering if earlier bedtime could help?
She did sleep through last night but it was a messy day, and e got home late so she lost an hours night sleep comparred to normal - and normal is never very good.
Have you tried reducing his morning nap and leaving the afternoon one longer - i've heard that can help with EW.

It is true that all of my NCT class now bar one other person who has always had sleep issues with her baby because of AP, are STTN, and in their cots until at least 6.30am, it is frustrating as they're always full of beans and their babies nap well too. Sigh.

Wow, 11 hour night last night is really good. Well done.

I do know some babies are just wired and alert and wake up with the larks. What's his wake up time?
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