Dealing with EWs - plan anyone?

[snowbird]

Mmm, making me wonder now - prob 1.5 hours. There was a time when she started 2 hour naps but we were getting lots of nws then!

Rubbish day today - LJ's been fine but I'm really struggling with this! Can't get out in the morning as nap so early and then not much time in the afternoon as need to do dinner and ebt

Napped 9.30 - 11.10am
Bt - asleep 5.50pm - far too late!! But couldn't do any better

Xxx

[*Becky*]

hmm, that is an early nap isn't it.
What was your routine like when it was working well?

[Jazzandh]

Hi, I have been watching this thread, and come from two short night sleepers who potentially wake early. DS1 who is now 8 still wakes between 5.30am and 6am! We have been through periods of early wakings and I really feel your pain!

I take a slightly different approach perhaps.

Firstly (currently with DS2 who is just 2) if he wakes at 4.30am I keep him in bed until 6am at least. It may take constant revisiting but sometimes he drops off again after an hour (rare though).

I then take the tack of pushing the nap as far as I possibly can and keep that as consistent as I can - so even when DS2 wakes at 5.30am (recent) he will still nap at 12.30pm. This does lead to some overtired short naps, but it also allows me to push bedtime as late as possible as quickly as possible.  Mine were more sensitive to awake time from nap to bedtime.

My reasoning for this was, that I have never got more than 10hours occasionally 10.5hours out of them, so a super early bedtime always led to early wake-up and we just got completely stuck in the rut.

Also it has taken DS2 over a week to adjust to the time change - so your LO may well still be adjusting to that.

Best of luck though - early mornings are grim - although I now still wake up in anticipation and hold my breath and they still sleep! That's a real bummer!!

 

[snowbird]

Becky, she was waking at between 5.45 and 6.45am I think - seems like a distant memory now!! We were happy from 6am onwards as liked her to go down about 7. 5 and a half A on wu, nap, then 6.5 A. Nap about 1.5 hrs I think!

Thanks JazzandH, just discussing this with dh. We do ebt because she will sleep longer, I.e wake at same time but had longer due to ebt. A later bt does not guarantee us a later wu

Still will have a think xxx

[snowbird]

Well wu at 4.55am. Probably later due to be at 2.30 for half an hour or so.

Was going with 5 hrs A but gut said to do 6. She did yawn a bit but was happy enough. Thought she'd do an hour ten nap due to OT but...

Nap: 11-now - still asleep!

So 5 hrs to bt now...

Probably going to go with 6 hrs A and 5 hrs after nap for now and see how this goes (as suggested by Vicki)! Wdut?

Thinking I should cap the nap to 2 hours? Any thoughts on this? Especially in the next 10 mins lol! If I remember rightly she had a few nws when she napped for longer xxx

[mimi21]

Thats a great nap - what did you decide too do?
I think I would have let her sleep a little longer to push bedtime on.

Hope the rest of your day goes well :-)

[snowbird]

She woke up on 2 hours so no choice there! In bed now but not asleep yet xxx

[Truly Blessed]

Probably going to go with 6 hrs A and 5 hrs after nap for now and see how this goes (as suggested by Vicki)!

Was it not 5 am A time then 6 pm A time after a decent nap or 5.5 if short nap  I would be scared to push to 6 hours before her nap unless she's had a really restorative night Hun.

x.

[snowbird]

Was it not 5 am A time then 6 pm A time after a decent nap or 5.5 if short nap   I would be scared to push to 6 hours before her nap unless she's had a really restorative night Hun.

Oops - got confused with what you'd put in Mimi's thread! But it worked for us last night  She had had a good night.

BT - 6pm
1 NW around 12.30am- settled v quickly
WU - 5.30am - at least that's when I heard her and rushed in to welcome the sun! Don't think she'd been awake v long!

xxx

[*Becky*]

much better

[*Becky*]

how are things snowbird?

[snowbird]

Thanks for asking, Becky! Well we've been going with the 6 hours A from wu and then 5 hrs A to bedtime. Yesterday she napped for 2 hrs 20 mins, bt at 6.50pm. She did wake at 4am but I left her and she obviously went back to sleep as the next time I heard from her was 5.45am. Reckon she was awake before then but not for long.

Today nap: 11.35 - 1.40pm. She woke upset so probably could have done with the extra 15/20 mins - but we were going out. Asleep by 6.40pm tonight! Been upset tonight but think it's due to os from a mad afternoon at my mum's with her cousins etc. got her in bed as quick as possible.

Sun now set for 5.20am. Was going to move it on 10 mins but worried she might do an ew after the os and don't want it to be too hard.

Her teeth are causing her probs too - poor little darling!

But not bad so far - fx it continues! 5.30-5.45 wu is doable, although I'm heading for 6 xxx

[Truly Blessed]

5.30-5.45 wu is doable, although I'm heading for 6  xxx

Here's hoping  Try and be as consistent as you can with the A times Hun, Glad things are improving Hun 

x.

[*Becky*]

sounds much better - so pleased xx

[snowbird]

Eugh!! 4.30am yesterday and 4.50 today nursey's the problem as they all nap together at around 12.15pm so too much A time in the morning!

Question ladies - should I stick to A time in the afternoon on a nursery day i.e. 5 hrs OR do a 13 hr day?

Yesterday she was awake from 4.30 until 6.45 - too long a day! Napped 12.10 until 1.40 at nursery. Couldn't do ebt as has a rash and needed it checking out at the doctors.

Xxx