My baby girl is 3.5 months old. She was completely reversed on days and nights and then we started using these methods, and suddenly she was a fabulous sleeper!! BUT she has managed to make bedtime later and later. She spends the whole evening fussing or wanting to play, and sleeping for 20-45 minutes and then wakes up.
Our Day looks like this:
E 8am
A
S930
E1130
A
S1pm
E2pm
A
S330
E430
A
S6
E645
A
S815pm... Bedtime...
But at this point she quite predictably wakes 30-45 min later, and then is up and down for the rest of the evening. I have tried putting her back to sleep right away, nusing then back to sleep (she fights the sleep for a good hr and it's beyond frustrating), and have tried just letting her be awake for more activity. She is happy all day, not fussy, but in the evening she's very fussy, pulls off from nursing and cries, screams randomly... etc. She does have some spitting up issues, and I suppose could be teething already. Her bedtime routine is putting her in her sleeping bag, giving her a last nursing, and singing to her before putting her in bed. She falls asleep fine... but then wakes up soon after.
She tends to finally go to sleep around 11pm-1am.. then sleeps soundly until 8 am when I wake her! But we just need to rotate her schedule backwards a bit/eliminate the fussy-ness.
I have tried waking her at 7am, (have to wake her at 8am too), tried various amounts of A and S time, and she tends to nurse before sleep again, but try hard not to let her nurse to sleep. She goes to sleep easily at nap times, she sucks her thumb a fair it, her afternoon naps can vary from 45 min -2 hrs, usually on the shorter side.
We also have a 2.5 yr old who sleeps from 7-7 no problem.
Any suggestions?!