My DD is 9 months old (corrected age is 8mo). We’ve been on EASY since she was 5 mos, but we’ve had our battles with short naps, OT, and habitual waking. After taking the Baby Type Quiz, she is a combo of spirited and textbook, with a bit of touchy. Isn’t it the best of all worlds? She is breastfed and started solids at 6.5mo. We sleep trained her at 5 months using PU/PD. She loves to whimper and wrestle a bit even before I put her down. For her naps, if she wakes up between a cycle, she usually can’t resettle. And at night, we usually have had to go into her room 1-2 times a night to resettle her. But on good nights, we hear her cry out and then resettle herself.
The most painful part of getting her to sleep is that she just doesn't get drowsy. Instead of just slowly nodding off, she just fusses a lot. So when we put her to bed, it's always going to bed crying or whimpering. As her mom, it definitely raises my stress levels. Do spirited babies ever grow out of this? Will there ever be a time where I could put her down awake and she'll put herself to sleep? Or do I have to readjust my expectations?
But for the past month, it's been crazy. I know that 9 months is a tough time because of sleep regression/growth spurt/teething/ and we've had a cold thrown into the mix. But there have been so many night wakings and cot parties. I'm just thankful that my husband handles the nights! I'm getting quite tired of theorizing whether I have to push A times, should/n't cap naps?, OT, UT, EBT? It's exhausting.
So right now, I think I'm just going to ride the wave. Take it easy, and if and when we have a good day, I'll just try to reenact it!
