Now we just got back from vacation, so this could be some of it. But even right before the vacation, Rachel started taking one long nap in the morning and one long nap in the afternoon. With a catnap as either the first morning nap, or the early afternoon nap. She still won't catnap in the evenings. Now what I mean by long is 2 - 2 1/2 hours. This morning it was 2 1/2 hours. Yesterday afternoon she slept for almost three hours, awakening at 4:40pm. We normally put her to bed btw 7pm and 7:30pm, so I figured it would be fine to have that long a nap because she would then be awake for almost three hours. Tried putting her down around 7:30pm,and she just kept jolting awake, and spitting the paci out and talking. Finally i decided to feed her, because she last ate at 5pm, and then she went to sleep. I don't normally do the bottle before bed, I should have done it right after her bath, but I figured she would go right to sleep. Sometimes if I feed her before bed she won't eat a thing for DF. I've also been letting her wake me up to eat instead of doing the DF at a specific time because she just won't eat. Anyway, we had an awful night of wakings. So I'm wondering if the long naps could have anything to do with it. I know there's a host of other things I need to be doing. Like getting back to doing the DF at a specific time. Doing that tonight. And keeping her up more during the day, we're working on 4hr easy and 2 hour awake. But even if she has a long nap in the afternoon, if she's up for a good period of time until bedtime, isn't that OK?
