Sorry for the typos before. I was a bit frustrated when I was writing.
Up between 6-7.
BF when she gets up - though we also do that in the wee hours of the AM in my bed.
A - for around 2.5 hours. She shows signs of being tired usually right around the 2 hour mark and then I'll start to try to wind her down.
S - Sometimes it's for 45 minutes and then I have to resettle her. Other times it's 1.5 - 2 hours. Every day is different. Up until 3 or 4 weeks ago it was consistently 45 minutes.
We continue this cycle all day.
She is the youngest and has to be brought along to many activities with her two older siblings. She has never slept in the car. She'll just fuss in there when she's tired but won't ever fall asleep. I get her to sleep in the Ergo when it's naptime and we aren't at home. She'll give me 45 minutes in there.
I try to have her in bed by 7:30 at the latest, but that also depends on what games and stuff we are at in the evening. But my goal is always before 7:30. And she is up all night, too. She usually wakes 30-45 minutes after I put her down. Then sometimes not again until 10, but other nights every 45 minutes until I feed her at 10. Then I try to keep her in her own bed. Last night she fell asleep from 9:45 til 12:20 in her own bed! She's usually pretty hard to settle after the 10 pm feeding. When I realized she was just in so much pain early on, I started just bringing her in bed with me when she was so fussy and uncomfortable. So we definitely have bad sleep habits going on.
I always nurse her when we are getting ready to go to sleep. I'll change her, swaddle her and nurse her. Once in awhile she'll fall asleep at the breast, but most of the time she'll start to relax and then fight it. Her body will start to relax and eyes get drowsy, then she'll pop those eyes open and pull off my breast. At that point I'll try to sh/pat her or bounce her or whatever seems to have a settling affect on her. It is never the same anymore. Sh/pat used to always settle her. And before the terrible pain kicked in, she could just about fall asleep in her bed on her own! Now she'll rest her head on my shoulder for a little bit then it's up and looking around at whatever she can see. I sometimes hold her like a baby in my arms and that will settle her. Then when she starts to drift off she pulls her head up wake herself up.
Today she woke at 6am - still very tired but I couldn't resettle her.
I started her wind down at 8:15. She actually fell asleep nursing and I laid her down at 8:24. She woke at 8:30. I went in and couldn't settle her at all. I tried to sh/pat in her bed, took her out and did it, rocked her, bounced her, just stood and held her, put her down and told her it was "night night time" and left. When she fussed I went back in and we started the whole thing all over again. This went on til about 10 when she finally gave in and fell asleep. But only for 30 minutes. Now she is up, tired and miserable.
I don't think she is teething yet and she's on prevacid for her reflux. We also saw a chiropractor for her tummy issues for about 4 weeks and that seemed to help her gas and reflux pain.
We were doing some solids, though she doesn't really like much. She was constipated so yesterday I went back to just breast milk to see if it's one the foods or something.
I feel really bad cause it's been so hard since she was born. It's been one thing or another with her and sleep has always been hard. This week is spring break and we don't really have anywhere we need to be so I really wanted to focus on her sleeping. But we are off to a rough start already. And she is tired. I just don't know what to do. We are a mess.
