So we're a couple of days into trying SEBT, but I can't manage to make it happen.
First off, DD has been ravenous for the last 2 weeks. She's often still hungry at 6:30pm. Plus, she often has to poop right at bedtime too, which tacks on extra time. So while I've shut the lights off at 6:30, I've had to give her more food, and put her on the potty after lights off, so we don't manage having her get to sleep until 7:30pm. In case you want to know if the hunger thing really is hunger....she has occasionally twice in the middle of the night to complain she's hungry. I tried to ignore it for 45 minutes, but she was still awake. Then I gave her some milk and peanut butter, and voila, she was back asleep in 5 minutes. So she really is hungry!
Another interesting thing is that she ended up adding a nap back. I have been putting her in her room from 12-1pm for quiet time before nursery. The first week, she didn't sleep, she just rolled around in bed. But all of the 2nd week, she ended up getting between 15-40 minutes. So probably with even that short nap, 6:30pm is too early.
Another point worth mentioning, is that both last weekend and this weekend, I let her have 1 hour naps, and both weekends, while the lights were off around 8:15pm, she didn't fall asleep until 9pm.
Plus, there has not been one night in the last week that she passed out immediately. It is usually taking her 20 minutes to fall asleep.
So.....my thoughts are that her NW are maybe not OT related, but maybe UT related? Maybe I should stick with an 8pm bedtime, especially that she added back her nap? Last night was actually the first night she slept through the night in 2 week (with the exception of a waking 30 minutes after falling asleep), and that was a 9pm bedtime with 1 hour nap.
At this point, I think I know what I'm going to try (8pm bedtime instead of SEBT), and I'm just typing my thoughts out loud. ;-) But any feedback is welcome.