Strange problem, please help!

[Zoexr]

Hi everyone.

My daughter is 7.5 months old and is a pretty chilled out baby.

I don't seem to be able to fit 2 naps in the day as she is a late walker. I know this is a very odd situation but I'm not sure how to solve it.

We put her down to sleep at 7 and she normally gets up around 8 or 8.30. She's erratic how many times she gets up in the night, but she goes straight back to sleep after feeds anyway.

Anyway, her routine goes something like this (today was pretty textbook actually!)
WU 8.30
E 8.30 Bf and solids at 9ish
S 11.30

WU 1.30
E 2 Bf then wasn't interested in lunch today
S 4.40 (put her in bed at 4.30 but she was chatting to herself until 4.40)
WU 5.10
E Bf at 5.30 and 6.45 and solids at 6.15
S 7

Sometimes I have to wake her up after an hour in the afternoon to ensure my husband sees her and I want to make sure she has a play/bath before bed.
She hates been woke up and is always grumpy of you wake her and isn't able to stay awake past 7.

Should I just carry on like this, as she's getting enough sleep in 24 hours? Or work on changing something?

Any ideas?

[deb]

What happens if you let her sleep as long as she likes for both naps? Does she go to sleep at a ridiculously late hour if that happens? Or still to bed at 7?

Might it be worth trying to wake her a little earlier in the morning? I always found that waking from naps resulted in grumpy baby so I tried to avoid it whenever possible. If you don't catch the right part of the sleep cycle, same as adults, they're all foggy-headed and out of sorts; you could try after 45 minutes when she'd normally stir and see if that makes a difference, but if she'll still take 2 full naps even as a late waker without going to bed for the night too often, I'd leave it.

Also, if she's had a restless night with lots of wakings, I'd let her sleep a bit more during the day to catch up if she seems to need it.

[anna*]

Hi there

My daughter loved to have a long sleep at night too and would often do 13-13.5hrs at night.

At that age we would do something very similar to you, and yes I would wake her from her afternoon nap to make sure to preserve bedtime.

To try to remedy grumpy waking, we used to open her curtains and open her bedroom door so it would be a bit lighter in there, so she could start to wake naturally.

[Zoexr]

The day after I posted this, DD woke up at 7!!!
She had about 45 minutes for the first nap and 2 hours 15 for the second.

Today she woke up at 8 and I had to wake her from both naps (2 hours and an hour 20) she still went to bed at 7.

It's frustrating because a few weeks ago she started to sleep through the night (12ish hours) but is now getting up a few times again. I'm in two minds as to whether her WU time would affect this and of course my baby brain is letting me remember what was happening in that golden week!