Annabel has hit a new low. Yesterday she got a total of 11.75hrs sleep in 24
I don't know what to do with her. Her sleep has always been a bit up and down with good nights, bad nights, good naps, bad naps, but it's never all been bad at the same time! She has been an IS for ages and still goes down by herself, but she has completely lost the ability to resettle so I'm spending hours in her room in the middle of the night and/or naps and it's not a good situation. When she wakes up she is OBSESSED with her cot bars. She'll be lying down and seems like she is trying to go back to sleep and then her head pops up again and it's like she magnetically drawn. She spins herself sideways, grabs the bars and then either lifts her chest and pulls on them, or bashes ir head, ir gets a foot stuck, and then she gets really upset and cries. I've got into a bad habit of rushing in whenever I hear her stir, but I feel like if I don't go in she ALWAYS ends up stuck and awake, whereas if I can catch her early she's more likely to resettle.
She is cutting her two top teeth at the moment, which have been bulging for about a month and one of them is FINALLy coming through the gum. I know teeth can cause havoc, but these have taken so so long, and she's going to be teething for the next 2 years, yk?! I do medicate but if she's this bad every time she teething I will be batty by the end of it. She is also trying really hard to crawl but can't go forwards - she rocks on all fours and can spin around on her belly but she doesn't go anywhere. So developmental stuff may also be a factor, but again, there will be much development going on! I need to figure out a way to cope with these things better if they are factors.
She is 8 months and her A time is around 3h15 - would appreciate any eyes on her routine in case I am missing / causing something obvious. Here are the last couple of days:
Wednesday
Previous night BT at 7:00, NW 3:30-5:15 (poop)
WU 7:30
Nap 10:45-12:15
Nap 3:30-4:30
BT 7:30
NW 5-5:30 (fed)
(2.5hr naps, 11hr night)
Thursday
WU 7:00
Nap 10:20-11:45
Nap 3:30-4:00 (OT, but had preschool run at 3:00 so didn't want to put her down earlier and have to wake her at 30mins anyway, thought at least a later OT nap is not such a long stretch to BT)
BT 7:00 (cried until 7:40
)
NW 4:45-6 (fed)
1hr 55 naps, 10h15 night)
Friday
WU 7:15
Nap 10:30-11:15
Nap 2:30-3:00 (PD at 2 but she wouldn't settle)
BT 6:15
NW 2:15-3:50 (poop)
WU 6:15
(1hr 15 naps, 10.5hr night)
The poo at night is not typical, I think that's due to teeth as they are messy and stinky. I am coming to the conclusion that she may be LSN as she has only very occasionally done a 12hr night and/or 2hr naps, and seems perfectly happy, even yesterday when she barely slept. But even for a LSN baby she is surely not getting enough? And if she is LSN I need to work out how to spread her sleep through the 24hrs to get as much rest for everyone as possible. So maybe 2hrs of naps and 11hr night. Or would 13hrs be too much to expect? With DD1 after a bad day I would do EBT no hesitation and she would tack on, but Annabel doesn't so I don't really want to do BT before 7. I just couldn't see that she would last that long yesterday though so I went earlier and she is up earlier.
Sorry this is so long but I have been struggling for a while and then she throws in a good patch so I think we're getting there, but really I don't feel like I've ever got it quite right with her. I'm not even quite sure what I should be aiming for at this point
