Need help getting back on track!

[Mama2C]

So DS is 17 months. He has gone through a lot these past two weeks - two eye teeth (one popped through last night), holiday away last week, developmental milestones, new routine with DH on holidays...
His routine was: wake 6:30, nap 12-2, BT 7:45-8. He would sleep through the night and all was great.

Teething hit and as usual with his teething he was waking around 2am needing a backrub and waking for good at 5:30, even with Dream Meds in the early morning...actually I find the meds to not work much on these eye teeth!

So now our days are looking more like this: wake 5:30 (sometimes I can APOP and nurse him back to sleep and he will sleep for another hour or so), nap 12-1:30 (shorter nap lately), BT: put him down at 6:45 and he only falls asleep after a lot of cuddling and nursing and back rubbing at 7:45 or 8.

This morning he was up for good at 5:40 and I put him down for his nap early, at 11, as he was very tired. He only got about 9hrs of sleep last night (awake for an hour from 3-4) and is going to need a lot of extra sleep today...

Should I be keeping his nap today at 2hrs max (if he can do them - with teething he tends to have shorter naps) and trying for an Early BT? How early? I find that he needs longer A times in the afternoons and even when teething will only fall asleep after 6hrs of A time... So I am thinking if he can nap from 11-1, then BT at 7 hopefully. Or should I let him nap even longer? If he wakes after 1.5hr nap (as he has been doing the last 2 days), then he wakes at 12:30 and BT at 6:30??? He will very rarely go to sleep with less than 6 hrs of A time no matter how hard I try and no matter how short a nap!

We're just a mess with all of these changes and we're exhausted!! Luckily he is a happy baby even when OT kicks in.

[Mama2C]

OK so update - he went for his nap at 11 and woke up at 12:30. I nursed him back to sleep and he woke up happy and chatty at 1:50!! So almost a 3hr nap which he desperately needed. This evening I kept in mind that he has been needing 6hr A times in the afternoon and I started nursing at 7:30. He started to drift and I put him down in his bed and he fell asleep very easily and was asleep shortly after 7:50 - after 6hrs of A!!! This was the easist BT in over a week. Man oh man what a relief. Here's hoping for a good night. DH is back at work and needs a good night's sleep!!

[Roseii]

Hello and yay for a good night
I think you're right to let him get the sleep he needs at the moment, I wouldn't cap whilst he is teething badly and having Nws.

So how's today looking?

[Mama2C]

Well he had NWs at 4 and 5 but was easy to put back to sleep with a little back rub and then was up for good at 6. So still a 10hr night with two NWs. Not great but not as bad as it has been... I'd really like to get his 10.5hr nights back with NO NWs...

Not sure what to do for naps...I guess I'll aim for 11:30 for 2 hrs?? Not sure if I should cap it at 2hrs... he does seem set on 6hr afternoon A times and if I let him sleep past 2pm, he will be going to bed late...