Hi there - this is my first post, so hopefully I do this correctly. i"ve been trying to put my 3.5 month old on the EASY schedule for the last week.
Before EASY she was going to bed at about 8:30 and sleeping until 5 or 5:30 when she would wake up for a quick feed and go right back to sleep until 7:30 or 8 a.m.
Now, I have her going to bed at about 7:30. The last two nights she's woken up at 2:45 (she put herself back to sleep in about 20 - 30 mins with bursts of screeching./mantra cries). She had light wakings at 4:15 and 6:15 but they were very short and she went right back to sleep. I woke her up at 7 a.m. for her feed.
Every day, however, she is rubbing her eyes by 7:45 a.m. so I've been taking her and putting her down. It seems crazy to try and push her another half hour or 45 mins of A time to 8:30, but is that what I should be doing?
Maybe she is in a growth spurt? It's hard for me to tell because I'm breastfeeding and trying to stick to a somewhat rigid EASY.
My second issue is that her first two naps the last two days have been great. She wakes after the first sleep cycle but seems to get herself back to sleep within 10 mins and goes at least another 45. However, the third nap of the day is only 45 mins. I've done shush pat with her to try to get her to go back down but she fights it until it's time for her to eat again.
This results in my putting her down for a catnap around 5:15 (although yesterday she stayed up until 7 p.m. because my sister took care of her while my DH and I went out for a bite) because she's so tired.
Will her A times start to stretch out naturally? Should I force them?
