hi there,
my 15 old DD is an independent sleeper, she goes down independently at naps and BT and sometimes sleeps through the night. other nights she has maybe 1 or 2 short wakings and settles easily by us laying her back down. lately, however she has started waking after maybe 2-3 hrs after BT and is up then for up to 5 hrs till she eventually falls asleep in our bed. this usually happens on days after a bad nap or a early waking, so I suspect she wakes from being OT. she moved early to 1 nap, at 10 months because she handled long A times very well. we had early wakings for ages (around 5am) but got rid of them when we moved her BT later to 7.15 rather than trying to do early BT's at 6.30. we figured that she does max 10/10.5 hrs per night, so having her down so early for BT was just not working. anyway my husband thinks that her long NW's are a sleep prop, as in she demands to come into our bed. I think its OT related, when she wakes after 2/3 hrs after BT she is so OT that she cant fall asleep independently anymore. any ideas? so far, we always ended up to bring her into our bed after like 2 hrs as its just so hard to do WI/WO in the middle of the night and also because DD1 is next door and we are afraid that she may wake up.
our routine is usually like this:
WU 6am
nap 11.30-1.30 (set nap in daycare)
BT 7.15, asleep by 7.30
any insight would be greatly appreciated!