Thanks so much for your reply!
My husband is home now so I am getting a little relief before bedtime....a little calmer now, haha.
For a few months she was sleeping (3-4) 6 hour stretches at night and going back to sleep with hardly any soothing. But since about 4 months, she has been waking multiple times a night. Recently, it has been every 3 1/2 hours. I try to g hubby to sooth her if it's been any less, since I doubt she is hungry. Sometimes she goes 4 hrs. Oft she will wake around 5 am ( even if she was fed at 4). We try and sush pat at that time and extend sleep to closer to 7. This last week, she has been able to self sooth around this time and make it til 6:30... And once in a blue moon 7!
She always needs help to get to sleep at night...rocking and lullabies , sometimes just rocking, and patting bottom ( she doesn't like back). Sometimes just shh pat works, but not usually lately.
We have a good nighttime routine, 6:15 bath and pjs, books with daddy and nursing, then lights out and rocking. At this point, when I try to put her down awake she cries so hard that it takes for very to put her down. She is typically asleep by 7, but often wakes around 45 mins and needs to be re- soothed. Then she will usually last till dream feed around 11.
Nap time she gets a story, a rock and pat. She never puts herself to sleep
Right now she breastfeed around every 3- 31/2 hours during day.
Thank you so much for going through this with me. I really want to figure out a plan to get back on some sort of reasonable schedule!
Amy