I am at my wits end!! My eight month old spirited/textbook baby (more spirited these days) is making me want to pull my hair out. She does follow the 4 hour feed, and most days naps really well, but our nights our hell. she wakes 2 or 3 times and usually ends up in bed with me and my dh at around 5am sometimes before and sometimes after. I know that I need to do the easy routine with better consistency and I plan to take 10 days off work to do this. I have to start the pu/pd method. She always naps in her crib but because of my ap I hold her til she falls asleep and then put her down.
now my question is when I start the easy routine I know that there are 2 days a week that her nap time will fall when we need to leave for the sitter. According to the book she should nap around 9am for 1 1/2 to 2 hours. If I don't put her down until then she only naps for an hour before I have to wake her to go to work. If I do it earlier she is up for an hour before the E. So am I better off putting her down early so she gets an hour and a half nap b4 work. Taking her early to the sitter isn't a great option either because she gets wound up and doesn't want to nap for a while after she's there, so I like her nap to be b4 we leave. If I do the nap early 2 days should I do it the other 5 as well or try to stick to easy better on those days?