Hi Ginger! Thank you so much for replying and helping me tackle this baby's sleep routine.
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I know I'm still scratching my head wondering what I'm doing here. Low sleep needs is new territory for me. I'll answer your questions and then I'll post our past 3 days/nights since I first posted. It's been interesting.
Yes, I think some of it is developmental too, but she has always had massive NWs, but the EWs are new as of the past two weeks or so. She used to sleep until around 7am. I also always try leaving her in bed until at least 6am if she's waking in the 5 hour area, or until 7pm if she's waking at 6am. I usually can bc she plays in her crib by herself for the first 20 minutes or so until she gets mad. At the 10:30pm waking, I let her fuss until she starts crying and I can tell she's not going back to sleep and I go in and give her paci. Sometimes this and patting her bum a few times is enough, but for the past 2 weeks, this waking has been really hard to settle and usually takes up to an hour before she is fully settled. I don't feed her here. She doesn't cry after I go in to her - she just tries to go back to sleep over and over but it's almost like she can't settle into sleep enough to fall asleep. She'll just kind of turn side to side until finally she's comfortable enough to get back to sleep.
So here are the past 3 days/nights since I first posted. My goal was more to follow her tired signs rather than the clock, because I kept getting UT naps and UT bedtime too, at least it seemed, especially before bedtime. The biggest change was leaving her up longer before bedtime (I know that goes against common sense but it seemed to help).
Day 1
Wake - 5:15am (in bed until 6:45, could not fully resettle but she rested some)
S-9:35-11:15 (1 hr 45 min)
S-3:05-4:30 (1.5 hr)
Bed - 8:15 (tried earlier but of course she wasn't tired) She rolled around for a bit and settled herself to sleep this night)
NW-11:30pm (instead of 10:30pm - settled at 12)
NW - 2:00am - fed and back to sleep
Woke for day - 6:00am
Day 2
Woke - 6:00 (in bed till 6:30, would not resettle at all)
S- 9:40-10:40 (1 hr - did not get her out of bed til 11am)
S- 2:35-4:00 (1.5 hr)
Bed - 8:05 (this was a longer A before bed - 4 hours, she didn't get fussy until 7:45pm)
NW - 12:30am (instead of 10:30pm - settled back by 1am)
NW - 4:00am - ate and back to sleep
Woke for day - 6:45!!!
Day 3
Woke - 6:45!! (in bed until 7)
S 10:35-11:15 - (40 min - UT)
S - 2:25-4:00 (1.5 hr)
Bed - 8:15 (another 4+ waketime before bed - surprisingly she did not seem tired here, it took her about 15 minutes to get sleepy, but it was a lower activity day (carseat and shopping quite a bit and her naps were on the UT side as well)
NW - back to 10:30pm but she almost resettled herself. I thought she went back to sleep but then started crying after about 10 minutes. I resettled by 11pm (seems like the less tired she is going to bed, the earlier this waking is and harder to resettle)
NW -3:45!! - ate and back to sleep
Woke for day - 6:45!!!
So it seems that the longer A before bed does extend the wakings a bit and she sleeps til later in the morning - we've had two 6:45am wakings in a row which is great! So I'm not sure if this helps make sense out of anything. It seems like the best thing to do is cap that 2nd nap so she can get tired before bed earlier. I honestly don't know if I could get her sleep by 6:30pm, but I will give it a go! Her last nap would have to be really early and short. She would need at least 3 hours Wake time after a 30-40 nap, maybe more before bed, from my experience. I'm not sure what ONS is? Overnight sleep? When younger, she would easily do 12, even 13 hours because I had so much trouble getting her to sleep through the day, but it was very broken then too as she has always had lots of NWs at night. I would say the most she would do now on a great night would maybe be 11 hours. I don't ever expect 12.
Can you help make some sense out of this? Thank you so much!! I appreciate it greatly!