Thanks mmom . . . I was feeling pretty defeated yesterday, but last night was better. She still woke at 10:30, but when I went up and picked her up, she stopped crying and started to settle, so I immediately put her back down, and just patted for a few minutes and she went to sleep.
Normally, that's how bedtime goes. Sometimes, she does it completely on her own, and sometimes I need to pat for a few minutes.
My EASY has been really weird yesterday and today, so I'll give you both yesterday and a "normal" day from last week:
Normal:
7:30 Wake, Eat
A - Floor, rolling (lots of rolling), kicking in playgym, cuddling and a story
9:30 Sleep (usually starting to fall asleep on me, put down in downstairs pack and play)
11:30 Wake, Eat
A floor, rolling mostly
12:30 Eat (Cereal)
A Play with toy in highchair, sitting practice on bed, sometimes errands during this time but stays awake
2:15 Sleep (Put in pack and play or turned off swing - with music on if fussing - falls asleep by herself, sometimes takes a little longer to go down, but usually takes a 45 minute nap regardless)
2:45 Wake, Eat
A playing with toys, sometimes a walk if weather permits
5:30 Sleep? Often fights this one. Sometimes just sits in swing or rolls around in bed chattering for half an hour
6:00 Eat (nursing)
6:30 Eat (cereal)
A time - just cuddling and talking on couch mostly, bath a few nights a week, sometimes video chats with grandma
8:00 (or a little earlier if tired signs) Wind down - pajamas, story, nursing, then put on sleep sack and put in bed
8:30 (at latest) Sleep
Yesterday looked more like
(10:30 NW for an hour
12 NW - fed - patted for 20 minutes
5:00 EW - Feed, patted)
6:00 Wake
A - mostly quiet cuddling (mommy was too tired for much else)
7:00 Eat
A - story, diaper change, trying to keep awake
7:30 Sleep
10 had to wake
10:30 Eat
11:45 Sleep (again)
12:30 Wake
Eat (cereal)
Monster A time - rolling, sitting, trying to tire out, then carried around house to wind down, tried to put down at 2:45 and again at 3:30 - both times played for a while, then fussed, then screamed and reached out to be picked up as soon as she saw me
Must have fed at least once during this A time, but too much in a fog to write it down
4:30 Sleep
5:15 Wake
5:30 Eat
6:30 Eat cereal
7:30 - Very sleepy - shortened bedtime routine
7:45 Asleep
NW - 10:30 - patted back to sleep in a few minutes
1:30 Fed
5 Fed
I expect to still be feeding once during the night and am okay with that, but I think the 10:30 waking is messing up the rest of the night. We got rid of it once before - well, mostly she did, and started sleeping from 8-2:30 - but now it's come back. It would be lovely if it were a schedule issue and I didn't have to deal with crying. I feel in my gut like fixing the naps will fix the NW and fixing the NW will fix the naps - but that's an impossible circle isn't it?
Like I said, though, last night I was fully expecting to cave, but there was no crying and I managed to get her back down with no feed pretty quickly.
