Hey ladies,
Still in the thick of it here, with far too early wake up times. I'm convinced that LO is only capable of 10.5 hrs of night sleep...max! She can nap anywhere between 1.5 and 2.5 hours per day, and nothing seems to change the early wake up.....except if she happens to give me two longish naps in a day. Then we are up in the 4am range instead of the 5am range! I am really stuck in this early to bed, early to rise cycle, and don't know how to get out of it. If she is really set on a 10ish hour night, I feel like the only thing I can do, is push bedtime to 8pm. How do I do this, without offering the catnap (which was apparently contributing to the early wake up)? Currently, she is usually asleep by 645pm, and up between445-5am, with her second nap of the day ending between 230-3pm. No matter the time between second nap and bedtime, she is always energetic, and never seems sleepy, but I don't know that pushing her past 4 hrs A time at the end of the day, is a good thing. To compound the problem, we are heading toward daylight savings in about 2 weeks. I really can't handle a 3am wake up! Desperate for some help here. ps...LO is now 8.5months.
Thanks, ladies