Hi
As you are prob aware from my other posts, LO has been working toward one nap for a while but I really need your help to tweek her routine. Here's my dilemma:
For the first two nights of a one nap day and early bedtime (6pm) she sleeps well waking twice for a feed. She then wakes at 5.30ish and I'm usually able to resettle for another one by feeding her. By the third night of having one nap a day, she starts to woke hourly for the first part of the evening because I think she's overtired.
If she has two naps a day (usually a long and short nap), she settles well to sleep but wakes more often later in the night. With an early morning wake up (that she can usually be resettled for another hour by feeding)
Here's our scenarios:
Plan A
6am wake, feed
10am - nap
12pm wake
4.30 - nap
5.30 - wake
7.30pm - bed - settled beautifully (I thought the short wake time would be too short)
10.30 - wake/feed to sleep
12.30 - wake / resettle shh npat
2.30 - wake/ feed - only offered one side and small amount. Grizzled a little, then self settle
5.30 - wake, resettled on own for the FIRST time at this time
Plan B
6.30am - wake/feed
11.00am - sleep
1.30 - wake
6ish - sleep
10.30 - feed
3/4am - feed
5.30 - needed a feed to resettle
6.30am
I feel like he EW if prob habit rather than an indication of OT, what do you think?
Can you advice me how I should attack this situation? One or two naps (she seems to wake more at night with two naps, but she resettled herself at 5.30, perhaps a fluke though)?
How to do this?
Once I sort naps, I'll then tackle the night feeds. Surely she should be having one by now, or none!
