Hello! I'm new to this forum and baby whisperer in general. I have a 10 week old baby girl who has been doing EASY since 3-4 weeks, but didnt know it was a BW thing at the time. I recently started doing some internet searching and discovered the baby whisperer, which I am reading now. EASY was going well until the last 2 weeks. Her afternoon naps have become 30minutes or so. She sleeps well overnight with 1 night feeding and wakes up around 7. She has one long nap in the morning still, sometimes she goes past the 3 hour mark from her last feeding. The remaining naps of the day used to get progressively shorter with the last one before bed being 45min or so. Now they are all 30-40 minutes. She goes to sleep relatively easy with pacifier, white noise, swaddle and holding until she's drowsy and pops the pacifier out. When she wakes up from these short naps, I wil try for 15min or so to get her back to sleep. Sometimes I get her to sleep briefly in my arms but she always wakes back up, so I give up.
My confusion is that when she has these short naps and I can't get her back to sleep, she usually seems content to be awake. She stops fussing when I take her out of her swaddle and seems happy, smiling and cooing. Usually by this time it's only been 2 hours or less since she last ate and she doesn't seem hungry, so I let her hang out and feed her when she seems hungry. Her usual awake time is 1.5 hours but when I do this it's closer to 2 hours.. I do think that by early evening though she seems more fussy and harder to get to sleep, so maybe I shouldn't be doing this EASYA and I should feed her even if she doesn't seem hungry? Is 2 hours or less too often for a baby this age to eat? I worry about sleep associations too but over night she will go 4-6 hours at a stretch so if it was the pacifier I would think she would wake up all the time? Am I letting her sleep too long in the morning?
Thank you in advance for helping a newbie! I'm hoping this is just a phase and not a result of something I've done! I'm also hoping her overnight sleep and long morning nap stay the same because they are keeping me sane!
