So we're on day 2, doing shush/pat and it's going great! She's settling very quickly, and at BT last night needed no help! I don't think it will be long and I'll be able to wean shush/pat!
Now to tackle her routine issues...She's on a modified 3.75 - 4 hr EASY, mainly because she is BF so we do a little top off that I am also weaning.
Almost every day she is waking early around 6 and she sometimes just tosses around quietly and when my alarm goes off at 7, I can tell she's been up a while. Other times she fusses, then dozes back to sleep for a few, then tosses around, fusses, dozes some more etc. I usually just leave her, but sometimes, like today, she escalates, and I don't want to try shush pat when she's only 10 min from her normal wake time.
Also, she always seems pretty sleepy around 1 1/2 hours after she wakes (8:30), and gets pretty fussy too some days. I don't put her down that early, because when I've tried I got short morning naps. However, short naps in general may be a whole separate issue because we struggle with that every single nap.
I'm just wondering if I should be getting her up out of bed if she's laying awake anyway, but then she's only getting 10-10 1/2 hours of sleep, but she's not really getting good sleep that last hour if she's waking every 5 minutes (I see her eyes wide open).
Here's our typical day:
E 4:20 (straight back to bed)
E 7:00
A 7:30
E 8:40
S 9:15 - 10:35 (typically 1-1:20 min)
E 10:40
A 11:10
E 1:20
S 1:00-2:20
E 2:35
A 3:05
E 4:10
S 4:50 (usually just a half hour nap, or no cat nap if her morning nap goes short then she does a 2 hr afternoon nap and there's no time for the cat nap)
E 5:30
A 6:00
E 7:00
S 7:45
Thanks for your help!