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Offline Sarah - Enfys' Mum

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Where do I go from here?
« on: June 11, 2014, 21:20:13 pm »
Medi's been on the same easy for a while now and I'm starting to see signs it's not working so well. She's always been an early waker, 5:30 is pretty normal for her :( and we do get the occasional (once a week or so) looooong chatty NW.  I never get her up before 6 and I don't feed her till 7ish. She still has one nf around 3-4 am. We're getting more ew now, probably  5/7 days a week and the last 2 nights it's taken her 20 minutes to fall asleep at bedtime.

So this was today
Wu 5:40
S 9:55-10:25 (I woke her)
S 1:40-3 (took her 15 mins to fall asleep; I have to wake her at 3 to fetch Enfys from school)
Bt 7 but she took 20 mins to fall asleep

She is happy happy happy all day long and very busy. She's sooo close to one nap but I'm not sure she can manage the a time before her nap. She can do pretty long a in the afternoon though. I hate this stage!!!
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Re: Where do I go from here?
« Reply #1 on: June 12, 2014, 18:13:44 pm »
Ick that's tricky, so hard to jump to one nap from an EW :(. She's always been pretty LSN hasn't she?

Can you cut the am nap to 15-20 mins?  Then maybe bring the pm nap a touch earlier and aim for a 13h day? 

The other option if you think she just needs the push is to jump to a set one nap, maybe at 11am or as close to it as you can get, keep her really busy all morning and then hope she crashes for a big nap?  Then maybe move BT to 6pm (temporarily) and see what happens? 
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Re: Where do I go from here?
« Reply #2 on: June 12, 2014, 18:39:16 pm »
Personally I would try the one nap at 11 ish as Katherine suggested...but I like to jump cold turkey into things like that ;). We still get an ew a lot between 5:00-6:00 am but on one nap she is super easy to resettle. Keep meaning to try w2s but she never wakes at a consistent time - for a few days it is 6:00, then 5/5:30 for a bit.
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Re: Where do I go from here?
« Reply #3 on: June 12, 2014, 20:19:28 pm »
She's fairly lsn but not extremely so. She's always been a great napper and not great at night.
As it happens we had Enfys' school sports this afternoon so we had one nap, 11-1. she'd woken just before six. She was pretty grumpy about 9:30 but I managed to keep her going and she had a pretty good sleep. She was great in the afternoon. So, we'll see.
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Re: Where do I go from here?
« Reply #4 on: June 12, 2014, 22:21:42 pm »
Fx!
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Re: Where do I go from here?
« Reply #5 on: June 13, 2014, 05:34:44 am »
Sounds promising!
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Re: Where do I go from here?
« Reply #6 on: June 13, 2014, 10:06:03 am »
She had a great night - slept from just after six till 3, I fed her and she went back to sleep till 5:45.

But this morning I had to take the cat to the vet and Medi slept for a quarter of an hour in the car.  She is very grizzly today so I hope it was the right thing and she'll have a decent nap this afternoon.

I can see us flip flopping between one and two naps for a little while yet.
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Re: Where do I go from here?
« Reply #7 on: June 13, 2014, 20:58:08 pm »
Great night! We did back and forth for a bit but then I just went for it - the odd time she does a 10-15 min catnap in the early morning in her carrier while I walk the dogs but that doesn't impact her nap too bad, I just push it back by 15-20 min.
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Re: Where do I go from here?
« Reply #8 on: June 14, 2014, 06:32:00 am »
Yeah I think that's what will happen here too.

She had a dreadful night last night but I'm not sure if she's ill. Loooong NW at 3 and then screaming at 5.  She did go back to sleep until 7:30 or so. Going to be a one nap day today I reckon.
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Re: Where do I go from here?
« Reply #9 on: June 22, 2014, 04:33:57 am »
Well, it turned out she had some kind of viral infection and was really poorly for about five days. She's feeling better but now having serious ew. 5:15 yesterday and 4:45 today :(. Today she had a dirty nappy which is so annoying.  I'm getting pretty fed up of these ew :(
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Re: Where do I go from here?
« Reply #10 on: June 22, 2014, 16:13:36 pm »
Ugh...we've been getting ew (well early for us, wake up used to 7:30/8) at 6/6:30 and no way she will be ap'ed back to sleep. Not sure what else I can tweak here - how has the one nap thing been going?
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Re: Where do I go from here?
« Reply #11 on: June 22, 2014, 17:18:11 pm »
She actually went back to sleep today. It was only for 45 minutes but it's good for her ;)

Since she's been ill we haven't done any more one nap days until today. Will let you know tomorrow how it went ;)
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Re: Where do I go from here?
« Reply #12 on: June 22, 2014, 17:20:18 pm »
Good luck! Great that she went back to sleep!
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Re: Where do I go from here?
« Reply #13 on: June 22, 2014, 17:27:25 pm »
It hardly ever happens and she will not ap back to sleep either ::)
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Re: Where do I go from here?
« Reply #14 on: June 22, 2014, 17:50:37 pm »
Sheesh what is it with these kids ;) lol guess I can't complain too much she did sleep a solid 10 hrs! But the other two sleep 11 or 12!
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