No real clue, Eulalia, as to why dd is such a fab sleeper. Yes, she does sleep during the day and sleeps well at night too... she is our only kid, and she has both of us at home at the moment, so possibly she gets extra stimulation, which wears her out, LOL... but basically we are guided (timetable wise) by what she wants. I guess we are just lucky !
She gets milk 4 times a day (about 250mil, SMA gold), when she cries for it / gets hungry. She sleeps when she wants and we almost never wake her up (ie. no other kids to pick up from school, if she's late for a feed we won't worry etc., if we're going out we would try and not wake her half way through a nap etc. etc. but leave when she wakes up or as she is nodding off to sleep IYSWIM)
The last couple of days she's woken early - 6 / 6:30, but she's gone down around 8 at night so it's no hardship. She sleeps next to us in a crib if that makes any difference.
Erm - I don't know what other variables might be relevant ? She had a dummy till she got bored and found her thumb maybe 3 or 4 weeks ago, and we haven't needed to give her the dummy now for probably 2 weeks. She moans when she is put to bed for maybe one or two minutes, finds her thumb, moans a bit more and then is out for the count. We don't 'tip toe' around because of her, she is exposed to all routine household noise, although we'll try and keep it quiet as she goes off IYSWIM.
She usually has a few hours nap in the morning, and a few more in the afternoon (up to 4 or 5 is probably the longest stretch I've seen)... I think generally she sits on a very 'even keel' and that might be the most important - she is calm and for that , I