Hi, everyone!
My baby is 16 weeks. She is sleeping through the night. As in dreamfeed at 10 and then she is out till 7 AM..We started 3 hr routine at about 12 weeks, then switched to 3.5 about 2 weeks ago. With 3 hr, we were having 3 naps and a catnap and she kept waking up every 45 min. We switched to 3.5 hr routine with only 3 naps, no catnap, and hammered at it for 3 weeks before she started taking decent naps (still some struggles but way better than it was). However, the third nap of the day has always been crap. And for the past 10 days or so she decided that that last nap will be no more than 45 min, and even if I insist and only go in and comfort her every 10 min or so but not let her get up (as I do during other wakings), she will wail for the entire last hour of our supposed nap. It is supposed to end at 5 and then bedtime at 7. In reality she almost always wakes at 4 and proceeds to complain for an hr, which leaves us with THREE hours till bedtime, which is practically impossible for her. An hr and 45 is her top limit right now. So no matter how I shuffle the naps we are still left with WAY longer wake period in the end of the day than she can handle and she REFUSES to finish that last nap. Trust me, I have tried. I am determined, I do not run to her the minute she makes a sound. I am as stubborn as she is, but the child just refuses!
Soooooo, that has got me thinking, that I either dropped the catnap too soon (I dropped it cause I felt like I am making her get too much daytime sleep, which caused her to wake up and fuss at night). Or.... she needs to be on 4 hour routine, BUT 4 hour routine suggests 2 hour wake time stretches, which I do not believe she can do. She is currently able to do 130-145 tops. So what the hell do I do?!
