Hi,
LO has been on EASY since she was around 2 months old. She moved to 1 nap when she turned 1. We had EW for months and now moving to 1 nap WU is anywhere between 5:50-6:45 am, more around 6-6:10 am I would say. We had struggles at BT with a lot of crying (might have been SR around 1 year of age?). It is better now, at least she is calmer, less crying although still may take her up to 45 mins to fall asleep at BT.
WRT her 1 nap, I had advice here to move it to around 12 pm when she started waking past 6 am, to push for later WU in morning. Was aiming for 6:30-7 am WU. Now I´m a bit confused as we have been on 1 nap for a while and lately she is waking early from her nap. Nap length is normally around 1.5-2 hrs I would say. Still varies a lot. When she wakes early from nap, I usually pat her to get her back to sleep (dont know if it is advised to still do this or if she is too old for it?). I was advised to try get her back to sleep again if she slept less than 1.5 hrs for her nap. I´m getting tired of it as the patting can take a long time and I don't want this to become a prop. Even if she falls asleep and I stop patting when she has fallen asleep, a lot of times she wakes up again after 2 mins and then have to pat again. So what I´ve done is I continue patting for a while maybe 5-10 mins to make sure she has fallen asleep, but really I don't want this to become a prop.
I´m also not sure if she wakes around 6 am if it is too late for her to sleep around 12 pm? She has slept fine for her nap with around 6 hr A time not waking early from her nap. Now I'm just confused as when I put her down at 12 pm when she wakes later in morning she still wakes early from her nap. I've been trying to figure out a pattern with her new routine as I've been told it takes time to transition to 1 nap, but I just don't know.
Earlier she had around 5.5 hr A time from nap to bedtime, then days were 13 hr days. Felt she was maybe a bit too tired during the day so have now decreased it to around 5-5 hr 15 mins and if she was waking around 6:30 am she had around 5.5 hr A time in morning. For a few days she had around 11.5 hr nights, which I felt was better for her as she was not tired compared to 11 hr nights or even less.
I have posted EASY for last 4 days.
So my questions are:
Do I need to tweak her EASY? Do I keep nap at 12 pm even if she wakes 6/6:30/6:45 am or do it at different times depending on when she wakes in morning?
Why has she started waking from her nap? Confused why she is waking even from 5 hr A, when I thought 6 hr A was too much. She still goes down fine if it's after 5 hr or 6 hr A time. Maybe takes her a bit longer to settle after 5 hr A time.
Should I really pat her back to sleep when she wakes early from her nap? If she wakes like today after 1 hr 10 mins? She won't go back to sleep on her own though. Do I just let her sleep less than 1.5 hrs? Do I that case put her to bed earlier for BT or same BT?
She is not LSN.
Sun 9 Aug:
WU 6:10
Nap 12:01, woke 13:11 pat her to sleep fell asleep 13:19-14:20
BT 19:14 took 40 mins to fall asleep
Mon 10 Aug:
WU 6:50 (very rarely wakes this late)
Nap 11:57, woke 12:42 pat her to sleep fell asleep 12:47-13:52
BT 19 took 25 mins to fall asleep
Tues 11 Aug:
WU 6:28
Nap 11:57, woke up 13:15 pat her to sleep fell asleep 13:28-13:51
BT 18:56 took 20 mins to fall asleep
Wed 12 Aug:
WU 5:58
Nap 11:56, heard her 12:45 fell asleep again, woke up 13:04 tried to pat her did not want to fall asleep
BT 18:44 took 20 mins to fall asleep (put to bed bit earlier due to short nap)
