Hi,
Our 5 month old was always between a textbook and angel baby. She is on a 4 hour EASY. We could lay her down in the cot and 80% of the time she would settle and go off by herself. At about 4 months she started fussing a little, so we did shush pat and it really helped. She had hip dysplasia so she had to lie on her back due to the harness. She also has reflux but it is medicated. Now when we try the shush pat she grabs our hands, or tries to roll away. She sleeps in a grobag. It can take up to an hour to get her to nap and then she wakes after 30 mins. We do think she is teething, but thats been the case for about 3 weeks now. We started solids last week and it's been going fine, though she is a little gassy. Basically there is a lot going on, but we are so tired of the nap battles. She still goes off well at 7pm but I'm scared that is going to be affected next!
Our days go like this:
6:30 am wakes happy
7 am Eat (usually 7 oz)
8: 30 nap (usually 30-45 mins, can be up 30 minutes of fussing)
9: 30 Awake again, happy
11:00 bottle (usually 6/7oz) Here we have a problem because we should put her to bed around 11:15 but she is eating)
11:30 nap (usual fussing, but this nap often lasts 90 mins)
12:45/1pm awake happy.
1:15 Solid food (vegetable, 5 teaspoons)
3pm Bottle (6 oz)
3:30/3:50 fussing and 30 min nap (too much awake time here again?) Upset when she wakes but can't go back to sleep.
6pm Bath, bottle
7pm bed.
11pm dream feed 4-5 oz usually
I feel she is overtired but the first crap nap of the day really throws everything else off. I know the teething and starting solids are affecting her, but our routine isn't right either and this problem though worse now, was there before they started.
Any advice appreciated.