Carmela is clearly teething. She just got two of her bottom (2 year old) molars in and I can see white on one of the top ones. With daylight savings time, she was doing really well. She'd go into bed at 8:00 and fall asleep by 9:00 (which wasn't great) BUT she was sleeping until 7:30...something she NEVER did...so though she was only getting 10.5 hours sleep it was working for us. She was taking her nap at 1:00 and falling right asleep and sleeping 2 hours on most days.
Well fast forward to now. She is still going to bed at 8:00. Most nights she's asleep by 8:30...sometimes by 9:00. She is waking in the morning anywhere from 6:20 to 7:30. Carmela also is up several times at night, but always able to get herself back to sleep after awhile. I never have to go in. All in all, on average, she gets 10-11 hours at night with the wakings, etc. Great! Not a problem for us.
Now the problem becomes naps. I've been putting her in at 1:00. The rule is if she's not sleeping at 1:30 p.m. I go in and rub her back until she is (it never takes longer than 5 minutes..though it used to take 2 mins, then 3 and now we're at 5 so I see it taking longer). She's teething though and has a never ending runny nose so I don't know if these two things have anything to do with her not putting herself to sleep at nap time.
Every morning around 10-11 a.m. she seems sleepy, then wakes up after lunch (served at 11:45-12) and at 1:00 she just doesn't seem sleepy...though at 1:30 she obviously is if I can get her to sleep quickly. I'm thinking of moving nap time to 1:30 but I am so afraid that it will mean she won't fall asleep on her own still and I'll be putting her to sleep at 2:00 and then putting her to bed at night later. I don't want her up too much after 8:00 as I'm 34 weeks pregnant and I need some time without her before going to bed myself!!!!!
Suggestions?