Day 2, need some help

[*foxy*]

Hi

I have just started the pu/pd method with my 6 1/2 month old daughter. We have tried other methods before which havent worked and now that shes getting older and still waking 2-3 times per night and all naps were a massive battle I knew I had to do something. I just wish Id have found out about this method sooner!
I'm trying to get my daughter on an E.A.S.Y routine consisting of:

7am wake
E. 7.30 breakfast (cereal/fruit)
A. 2 hours
S. 9am (1 1/2 hours which she typically does)
E. 11 bf 12.30 lunch (solids)
A. 2 hours
S. 1pm (1 1/2 hours again she normally does this)
E. 3 bf
A. 2 hours
S. 4pm (1/2 hour if we're lucky but this is a very new thing for her)
5.30 pm tea (solids)
Bedtime routine starts about 6.30pm depending on how tired she is. Aim for her to be asleep by 7. She normally goes down quite well and this has improved since starting pu/pd. She doesnt have a prop or a lovie. She's combination fed so has a bottle before bed and again at ten (dreamfeed).

My questions are (got there eventually!)
She is very unpredictable during the night, she's only just stopped waking between 7 and 10. I don't know what time she'll wake after that but its nearly always at least twice. When she wakes I'm trying to soothe her in her cot but she always needs picking up so I do the pu/pd method until she settles. Last night she woke at 2 and self soothed but woke up again at 2.30 so I did pu/pd which worked but then she woke again at 3.15 and wouldn't settle so I breastfed her (both sides for about ten mins, I'm going to try to gradually reduce this) - should I have done this? She seemed hungry. Then she woke at 5 but I was exhausted so slept next to her in the bed in her room she didn't need feeding she just fell asleep next to me (I know I probably shouldn't have done that) and woke at 6.30. She has been waking at 6 and I'm trying to get this to nearer 7.
If she's had a bad nights sleep and is tired when she wakes at 6/6.30 do I try to get her back to sleep? If she doesn't go back to sleep do I stick to the routine even though she might be OT for her first nap?

Sorry for the long story, I'm just not sure what to do at night. And for the 4pm nap, do I try for 40 mins and then give up if she doesn't nap and try again the next day? I'm trying to get her to nap at this time cuz she seems to be overtired at bedtime.

Thanks for your time Xx

[*foxy*]

Oh and the last 2 days she only been napping for an hour in the morning. How do I get her back to sleep?

[*foxy*]

Thanks Jane, thanks for the hugs

She woke at 6 this morning and I left her in her cot (she was quite happy) until 6.30 when she rolled onto her tummy and couldn't get back (something she does a lot at nap time and its quite frustrating cuz she doesn't want to be on her tummy!) Id love her to go to 7 but I think the night wakings are what I need to work on first.

She has about 3-5oz at her dreamfeed and I breastfeed at night so I'm not sure how much she has. I try to get her back to sleep without feeding her.

I'll gradually try pushing her A time to 3 hours and see how we get on.
So her pm nap will eventually be at 1.30 do you think a cat nap in the evening is still a good idea?

Thankyou for your help

[*foxy*]

Hi Jane

Thats really sweet of you to ask, thankyou.

Things are going quite well, although today was a bit of a disaster! We've had two nights of her waking only once at 5am one night and 4am the next for a feed and she went straight back to sleep until 6.30am both nights which was great. She goes down great for her am nap (normally) and the pm nap varies a little but it takes no longer than 20 mins for her to go to sleep and maybe a couple of pu/pd's.

Yesterday she woke after an hour for her pm nap (she normally has about an hour and half) and she wasnt too happy so I tried to get her back to sleep but it didnt work so it took a while to get her to sleep at bedtime and she woke at 9pm crying, got her back to sleep but then she woke at 9.30 and we gave her her dreamfeed then. Then she woke at 1.30 and 5am and was up at 6.45am. So not as good but I think that must have been because she was overtired?

Today my partner tried to put her down for her am nap at 9 but she didnt go to sleep until 10, Im not sure why and I had to step in which was a shame because I was enjoying a lie in! Then we went out for a walk and tried to get back for her pm nap but she fell asleep in the pram ten minutes before we got home and then woke up when we did get home. I tried to get her back to sleep but by 4.30pm she was still awake so I gave up. So she completely missed her pm nap! So we've put her to bed half an hour earlier but Im sure we'll have a few NW's tonight.

How does that sound? We're just over 2 weeks into starting EASY. Shes having 3 hourly A times both am and pm and her naps vary from 1-2 hours, normally the am nap is the longest.

[*foxy*]

Thanks, thankyou for your support, its great to hear that other people are doing or have done the same, we'll stay on track for tomorrow but grandparents want to see us so not sure how pm nap will go. Next week I'll make sure all naps are in her cot because I'm desperate to continue with 1 night wakings! Any idea when sttn comes? I start back at work in June so I'm hoping by then she might be sttn.

[*foxy*]

Hi Jane

I had to let you know that although my lo woke MANY times between 6.30 and 9.30pm, she then slept through until 6am! Do you think this is a fluke? I was expecting a terrible night due to her being OT