10 month old Spirited Baby......help!!

[ZacsMumme]

Give it a good 3-5 days and try to go with EBT if your pm nap gets cut shorter than 1.5 hrs. If you start to get NW/EW or general fussiness thigh A times then you may need to offer a longer am nap for a cat h up day

[cath73]

I just wanted to update you all.
We finally are getting into a good routine that works! have tweaked lots and lots but her days now look like this:
A 7am
S 9.30am (30 mins or 45 depending on how tired she is)
A 10 am
S 12.30pm
A 2.30pm
BT 7pm

BT are so much better now, she usually is settled within 5 mins and I don't need to stay with her . Usually she gives an indignant shriek, and then mantra cries for a couple of minutes, then off to sleep. The only times we have issues are if she has a change of routine, or teething etc.

We have had to use white noise, she has a fan in her room that we now use for naps and BT, although have just ordered a CD of baby white noise as the fan uses so much electricity and its getting colder here too! It seems to be such a sleepy trigger for her, and it drowns out the noise of my toddler running about . She does have the very occasional long NW but they are definitely teething related, so at least there is a reason. Last night was the best night ever, 7pm till 7.15am without any NW at all , plus she is getting her top canines through, so was expecting a tricky night

So I know there will be ups and downs, but we seem to have cracked it so far.......I know that the 2-1 is not far off, but will try and keep 2 naps as long as we can.

Thank you to ZM, Smurfette and Skatty...............your advice has been soooo helpful

[ZacsMumme]

Wonderful great one figuring her out. Seems like you may have two naps for a While yet!

[skatty]

That sounds perfect 

[Smurfette]

AWESOME!!!! Glad that she's finally settling down. Just remember to put her down to bed earlier for the night anytime you have a bad night the night before to keep her from building up OT.

Way to go!!! And thank YOU for being a wonderful mommy and sticking this out and trying so many things to get your daughter the sleep that she needs!

[rawan]

Hello All I know it has a while since you all posted here but I find my DS is the same he is 10 month old spirited baby and he is crying every night before BT he doesn't self sooth and since his birth I had only a week of STTN which was only straight 9hrs and that was because I tried pupd which was working for only a week and then he got ill and teething and it got worse and I can't put him back on track again .. I am trying to do the pupd but it is not woeking at all and I know you should only use pd and put my hand and say night night but he gets worse and doesn't stop crying so I pat his touchy and he falls asleep then after few hrs he wakes up again and I do the same and rub his back and goes back to sleep And then another waking here I may say I do a ply AP which is I give up and breastfeed him to sleep .. I am in desperate need of help really I can't do anything around because I am too frustrated and super tired ..

[ZacsMumme]

Hey Hun, maybe post on one of the sleep or EASY board for more eyes x