6month old - still doing 2hr EASY

[sarahbears]

Ok, today looked like:

NF: 11:15pm

She woke at 4am, but settled herself without a feed

Woke at 6:30

E: 6:40
A: 6:50
Solids 7:45
S: 8:45 to 9:25,   took a while for her to resettle 10:10am to 11:10
So 1hr and 40min sleep over 2hr 30min


E: 11:15
A: 11:25
S: 1:35pm to 2:05pm, 2:15 to 2:30, 2:35 to 2:40, 2:45 to 2:50, 2:55 to 3.
So one 30 minute nap, and 30min of broken snoozing.........not sure what was going on, the house was quite.  I was going to go in and try the W2S, but my son woke up from his nap just before I needed to go in and my husband wasn't around to keep him distracted.

E: 3:05pm
A: 3:15
Solids 4:15
S: 5:30 - 6:00
Took advantage of her 30 min stir to give her a final feed for the night.  In the past if she has been napping at this time she tends to go down for the night.  Don't know if it was the right thing to do.

E: 6:00pm
Nappy change and straight back to bed

Is W2S the thing to try for her naps, or still longer A times? 

She can self settle her self and I worry if I start interfering I might create a habit

If W2S, with the second option of stirring her before the transition,  could I just try stroking her cheek and leave?  I'm hoping I'll have my husband about tomorrow so that I can try it, but the rest of the week will be just me, so a bit wary of starting something I can't follow through with.

Justed edited to add my apology for this mornings post. Finding this process a bit frustrating.  I thought she would sleep at least an hour straight after a longer A time as she was already able to sleep an hour. Makes me feel like we're going backwards and I'm doing the wrong thing or taking the wrong approach.

[Buttonbobs]

Hugs honey, no need to apologise. We're not there dealing with the immediate frustration and tiredness. But we have all been there before! We do understand. Just remember that it can take a few days for an LO to adjust to new A times and as you need to adjust quite a lot there may well be some disruption until you find the right A times. But it will be worth it!! Xxx

[*Ali*]

For the next few day I would keep A times where they are now (around 2hr15-25 from eyes open to eyes closed) to give her body time to adjust.

I think it is great that she is settling herself back to sleep when she wakes mid nap. That is a valuable skill.

[sarahbears]

No real update for today.

She woke overnight at 12:30

She didn't nap well after her first A time. She was up for 2hr and 15min.  She slept for 40min and then couldn't go back to sleep, but stay in bed for 1hr 30min. We ended up going out and stuffed her day up a bit.  But on a good note, the last nap of the day was 30min, a brief wake up and then 1hr and 30min.   

See how it goes tomorrow

[sarahbears]

Finally, I feel like we're getting there, a fairly good day today

Slept through the night

Woke at 5:45

E: 6am
A: 6:10am
Solids 7am
S:  8:15 to 9:30, then napped on and off til 10

E: 10am
A: 10:10
S:  12:30 to 2:15, then napped on and off til 3

E: 2:50pm
A: 3:00pm
Solids 4pm
S: 5:10 to 5:40 - happy with only 30 min as I worried she might go down for the night. Put her down earlier as I stuffed up the time, thought it was later.

E: 6:10pm
A: 6:20pm
S:7pm

The end of the day needs a little tweaking,   I finding I'm having to work out how to manage her depending on where her times fall by the end.

Gone from BF her about 7 times a day to only 4 today

And best of all, she only stirred at the 30min mark. No waking, and no intervention required!

[creations]

Great news 
much improved naps and only 4 milk feeds! What a difference.

The end of the day may be messy for a while until you drop the CN. As the A times go up the naps come later in the day and help to close the gap between waking up from the second nap and BT. Early BT is helpful when you first drop the CN.  Generally you'd be looking a t a 3hr A time to drop the CN so you are not there just yet but have it in your mind.

[Buttonbobs]

that is a good day - keep up the good work

[*Ali*]

Looking good. You could probably even have done a slightly later BT (assuming you would prefer a slightly later WU) but definitely an improvement I think.