I'm at a bit of a loss with my 8.5month old. We have always struggled with naps but we finally got to a point where she was taking about 2 x 1.5hr naps in the day, and sleeping 11-12hrs at night. Recently however, she has cut most of her naps down to 1hr. We were managing with that, but now we are lucky if we make it past 30minutes! Some background: we did sleep training with her around 5-6months, she would go down wonderfully for naps and nighttime, awake and settle herself. She now stands in her crib and cries if I put her down the slightest bit awake so I have been rocking her to sleep and then putting her down. At night she can re-settle herself upon waking, but naps, if she stirs (at 30min or so now), it's standing immediately and crying, nap over! I can nurse her back to sleep and hold her, but if I put her in the crib again she usually stirs. I have been doing this a couple times in order to avoid the overtired monster, but I don't want to create a sleep association, I would just like her to go back to atleast 1hr naps and I would love to go back to putting her down awake and it not leading to a standing crying baby. She definitely knows how to sit herself down so I know that's not the problem.
Any suggestions? How did other people make it through the standing in the crib, putting baby down awake, etc?
