My son is just over 6 months old. He has always been an excellent napper, but his nights have been inconsistent since day one. Our latest difficulty is a regular waking three hours after settling to sleep (usually just needs to be picked up for a minute and then goes back to sleep when I lay him down again) and then at least one long night waking (1.5-2 hours sometimes) later on. The timing of this one isn't as regular - anywhere from 2 to 5am. I know he no longer needs a feed in the night and he doesn't wake up acting hungry, just awake and looking to have someone hold him. He is a tummy sleeper and doesn't roll from back to front yet, so he often flips himself on his back and gets "stuck", and needs us to come and flip him back over. Sometimes it's a pretty lengthy process! Sometimes I do end up nursing him because it seems to satisfy and help him settle back down, even though I know he can go without it. I thought maybe he was UT, getting too much daytime sleep, but last week there were a couple of days when he didn't get much daytime sleep in at all and he still had these wakings. I now wonder if it's OT? I think he's pretty high sleep needs.
His wake up time varies from day to day, I think because of the funny wake times in the night. Usually between 7 and 7:30 though.
He is on a 4 hour easy and usually has between 2 and 2.5 hours of A time. I have tried to stretch it closer to 3, but then we seem to get OT short naps. Sometimes I can stretch his second A time, but he is consistently ready for his morning nap after 2 hours of A time. I think we're in the middle of the 3-2 nap transition, and so most days there is a very long A time between his afternoon nap and bedtime. Bedtime is usually at 7pm. Do you think I should pull bedtime back to 6pm on his 2 nap days? Does this sound like OT behaviour to you?