DD2 is now 13 months old. She started out a great sleeper but it's been going downhill since about 7 months. During the day she is a sweet and very happy girl. No signs of unsettledness or grumpiness except for being pretty clingy and prefering to be carried much of the time.
We've always followed EASY. Never AP'ed to sleep. Always followed an age appropriate routine, as led partially by these routines and partially by her cues. She has a great wind-down routine, a cuddly and her own room which has black out drapes. She sleeps in sleep sack and has a dreaming for babies CD for day sleeps.
However, her naps are regularly 30 or 40 mins with the occassional 1.5 hour one thrown in to the mix. She has 2 naps a day. Even on days when she has 1 nap she still only has short one. We have regularly and consistently tried to extend naps and during those times have adjusted awake times up and down gradually as well but since 7 months those naps will just not extend.
She is not sleeping through. She wakes a cries at the top of her lungs at some point between 10pm and 4am. Always different times. We had managed to gradually water her night bottle down to 50mLs but then she got sick and for the last 2 months we've been back to larger bottles and unable to get it down again.
More recently, we've had more and more nights where she will have a little bit of milk, go back to bed, be quiet for a short time then cry again. We've tried leaving her, offering more milk, etc etc but she just keeps crying. In despair I even tried lying down with her & walking around cuddling her but even that didn't work.
So some nights she'll drink 200mLs, others 60. Some nights she settle straight after, others she'll cry for an hour or 2 no matter what we do.
I've had her checked out by doctors and she is fine. Ears and throat are clear. No apparent allergy symptoms. A happy and well baby. The only other issue we have is that she is not good with solids. She used to be, but she's had so many colds that she's now a poor eater. She spits most food out and mainly plays with finger food.
EASY is usually as follows: Up at 6.30ish, breakfast, milk, play. Nap at 10am for 30 or 40mins. Morning tea, activity, lunch, milk etc. Second nap around 1.30 or 2 for 30 or 40mins. Dinner around 5.30, bath, breastfeed, stories, bottle, teeth, song & bed by 6.30pm
