You certainly have your hands full - you supermum
Quick question - any signs of discomfort at all, eg reflux? No, don't worry if not, I don't want you imagining things that aren't there, just wanted to check before embarking on sleep training
Nice WU time - just realised your 8am was autocorrected to
, I just thought you were very happy about the WU time
well I would be, anyway
One thing I noticed about the day you posted was that she had a nice long 2h nap, just 1.5h after she woke for the day - I can't help wondering whether she treated that as the end of her night, especially given that she seemed to treat BT as a nap, do you see what I mean? The remedy for that would be to keep her up a bit longer at the beginning of the day, at least 2h, before letting her nap - especially if her A times tend to be on the long side. Now if you're unlucky, she may then do a short OT nap, but at least even if she does that, she won't have tacked on to her night sleep, so she should go down earlier for BT and not want to be up late into the evening.
My feeling is that she probably needs her A times stretched a bit, so perhaps once she's starting her day 'for real' at 7:30ish rather than 11am (if I was right about that...?) then give that first A another little push, say, 2h 15mins - wdyt? Then we'll take it from there. If she short naps and needs a 4th CN before bed, go ahead and do it, but make it short, even 10-20mins will do, it's just to get her to a sensible BT (anything between a 11-13h night can be normal for some LOs, perhaps you already know what yours prefers at the moment?) without getting OT. Often better to have that CN than to arrive at BT after a long A time and be OT. Alternatively, if you feel she's accumulated sufficient A time during the day already, you can try EBT - do you have a feel for how much overall sleep she ideally needs to be well rested? At this age I doubt if many LOs actually get that
but it helps to have an idea of what we're aiming for
Oh and as for shh pat - have you tried varying it, eg only doing the shh, or not patting but just laying your hand on her? She may be fighting sleep because she's not quite ready ie UT, but either way it all sounds very familiar! Sometimes when mine got like that I'd try and distract them with something else - DS responded quite well to visual things eg looking at each other in a mirror whilst I held him in the bedroom, it focused his attention on something else just enough to distract him from his habit of crying, but not so much as to overstimulate him. DD on the other hand responded better to singing, and still does in fact, when she starts losing it.
