My LO has never been a good sleeper. We've just dropped her third nap and now her second one has been a fight. It's always 30 - 40 minutes and she sometimes fights a lot going down. She's also been waking early for months. Yesterday's schedule -
4:00 Night feed
6:00 Wake and won't settle, nurse and cuddle in bed until she goes back to sleep
7:00 Wake and E
10:00 - 11:30 S
2:30 - 3:00 S
6:30 S (early bedtime, aiming for 7 or 7:30)
When she takes a nap we do a 10 minute wind down and she settles herself to sleep with me shushing out of view. When she wakes up I try to stick to the same - I sit and shush to her to get her to relax. (We're shush pat graduates working on the GW.) When she woke up after 30 minutes from her nap I tried to soothe her. She cried for 5 minutes, then relaxed for 10 minutes, then fussed for another 15 until I gave up.
A 30 minute nap is supposed to mean overtired but I can't imagine that's the case since she's doing 3 hours A time in the morning as well. When we were doing 3 naps a day her awake time would get slightly longer as the day went on.
Before I got some advice to AP a cat nap when she doesn't nap well but that's not possible. She's quite sensitive about sleep and won't nap easily while nursing, in the car or stroller. Help!