Hi,
My problem is that my 3 months old daughter was sleeping only around midnight for the night and doing only 45 min A time during the day. Now, I've try to decrease her nap time during the day to 45 min to an hour to have her switch her half day to half night as it is written in the book but that kind of screw an EASY routine of 3 hours because it look more like a EASAS and getting mix up later in the day with S following the E because she is so tired. I did that for 3 days and after 2 days, she went to bed at 7:30 and slept till 7:00 the next morning with DF at 10:30pm. Yesterday, same kind of day with her having around 1.5 E+A in the morning followed by 1.5 hours S (she would have slept more) then couldn't stay awake more than 45 min (E+A) and S of 45 min (I woke her up) and then the 3 hours routine get all mixed up. She went to bed at 7:45pm but woke up around 8:30pm and I had to do PU/Pd and sh/pat until 9:30 (well I did leave her alone for a while in the beginning since she was cooing and then the mantra cry. Do I leave her alone during the mantra cry or do I pat/sh her?). She also woke up at 5:30 this morning (which she never do) and she seem hungry, so I fed her and put her back to bed. I had to PU/PD and Sh/pat for an hour.
I kind of get that she shouldn't sleep too much during the day as to be able to sleep at night but I don't know what I should do. If I am waking her after only 45 min, should I start back at EAS (that would put her on a routine of 1.5 EASY). The problem is not that she is hungry, the problem is that she would do 45 min E+A, 1.75 - 2 hours S and then not sleeping until midnight after 7:00pm if I would let her. Even with the days that she is going to bed earlier (it did happen before, not often but some), her A time is not longer during the day. Now, it's taking me more time to put her to bed for naps then before. I think she is all mix up and I am too, because right now our routine suck.
I know I am doing something wrong but I don't know how to do it right. Can somebody please help me!!!