I think she is closer to the 2-1 than I have been thinking - she was super sleepy while she was teething her top 2 teeth - but still giving me 10 hr nights - and on the back burner of that she has gone crazy.
I'm also sure we are dealing with an element of habit here - she wants to get up and play after that length of sleep - partly because we end up having to get her up to stop her waking J.
Don't mind the questions
A time - looking like 4hr for the first A but possibly longer as she isn't sleeping past 1.5 hrs - she has never been prone to OT short napping - just tends to sleep longer out of exhaustion.
Settling - yep independent - I do feed before naps but it doesn't matter if I don't - and she goes down AWAKE. Megan is a very awake baby
. She rolls and tumbles and squeals etc until she nods off. Usually takes her anywhere from 10-30 mins. Not swaddled and a tummy sleeper. She has locked in
her cot but has no attachment to anything and doesn't use it as a comforter. She rocks her pelvis and
rubs her face into the mattress to fall asleep.
Resettling is difficult
. If she is struggling to settle in the first place patting her bum usually sends her off. In the middle of the night I have always BF her back to sleep, obviously can't do that now, we either leave her to chatter herself to sleep or we sit and rock her.
She is doing FAB with bottles. Amazing for a 9 mth old who had never had one before. Same old issue of her being too busy to feed during active A time, and that is why she mainly has them before sleep. But she is taking 3 7oz bottles a day. I'm not against a small night feed at this stage either as I always did when she was BF, but she is sometimes doing without that now. She is actually on cows milk formula - I used some out of despiration last week when my supply crashed and nothing much has happened. Yes - the sleep is 'off' - but no blood, no mucous, and a very very happy baby when she is awake. And no major NWing issues either - just the EW. So I think we are good. She has been on it about 9 days now at a decent quantity.
She is pretty good with solids - sometimes doesn't eat as much as she should as she is prone to spoon refusing and just eating finger foods. But pretty good.
Teething - yes she is - constant at this age though isn't it?? Probably a few lateral incisors on their way but not cutting yet. We give meds if she wakes in the night - but she naps fine and settles fine without meds in the day.
No dummy, pitch black room, uses white noise to go to sleep but it doesn't run all night.
Megan is dreadful for APOP - my only real option has ever been feed to sleep - and I have lost that now. She is not much of a car or buggy sleeper. I can sometimes rock her to sleep, but that is more in the context of her being OT and unable to settle.
But she may be bad for APOP as I may be trying too early....
She is too hard to get to sleep for me to want to do 3 naps a day - she hasn't done that since she was 4 mths old really so I don't think she would anyway. I'm happy to loose the nap overlap A's it will come back soon enough when she gets to 1 nap.
My Mum cares for the kids when I can't. She is amazing and will do whatever I ask her to - so I can still tweak routines etc
.
Another EW today at 5am. Woke chattering and wanted to get up to play.
So yesterday was
Awake 4.50am, back to sleep 5.30 until 6.40am
Nap 1 10.20 - 11.40 (had to wake her to go get J from preschool - he goes twice a week only)
Nap 2 3-4 (I woke her to preserve bedtime)
Asleep at about 7.20pm (did seem tired at bath time, but then seemed fine after it)
NO NWings
, but woke at 5am. 9.5hrs
. Tried to feed and resettle, but she was just chattering and refused her milk, so left her chattering and complaining until 5.45am, then got her up.
It makes the first A hard when she is doing that though - so a set am nap time may be what is needed.
Thanks so much for talking me through all this
