Hi again, Layla!
I hope your DD's EWs didn't persist! It's got to be hard with 2 other little ones to take care of!
So. We've been really busy here (I took on a work project). But since I last posted, I kept on with a short am nap and a longer pm nap. It went relatively well..more often than not I'd have to rock or nurse to sleep for nap 2, which I never had to do before. I kept a log and tried so many different things (shorter and longer 2nd As, etc) but was never able to make something work twice. Every day was totally different.
The last few days, she's done something new! She's started struggling with me as soon as we walked into her room for nap 2! So I would do things like read to her or snuggle with her or walk her around and then try again and she would still struggle. For the last 3 days I've BFed her to sleep because I was afraid she'd get OT with no pm nap on such a short AM nap.
And then, this morning, we did our normal routine and she fought the AM nap! Up until today, the AM nap has always been so easy. She goes down about 3.5 hours after she gets up and goes down without any props.
By the time she went down this morning, it was 11am (!) and I ended up BFing her to sleep. I have no idea what is going on. Her night sleep has been fantastic, even if the days have been not so great. She's been going down for 11+ hours solid without a peep so I hesitate to think she's OT though her day sleep has ranged from 1.5-2.5 hours total over the past week.
I'm going to post a general EAS and maybe you can help me figure this out..
6-6:30 Wake
7am BF
8:30 Breakfast
9:30/10am Nap
10:15/10:45 BF (snack)
11:30/12 Lunch
1:30/2:00 Nap (sometimes not until 3pm)
3:00 Snack
5:00 Dinner
6:30 BF
7:00 Bed