Okay, so I could have posted this in any number of topics but went for this one as...well who knows!
I have posted recently about napping and feed times. Have had seom really helpful advice and thought we were on the right tracks but am now really struggling with. I am all over the place with my DD, 7.5 months.
She was napping approx every 2hours for 40mins max. Started some nap blending at her second nap (approx 11am) and we got off to a good start. The day adter I tried it for first time she slept for 2 hours with no help from me! But that appears to have been a fluke.
I don't want to go back to cat-napping. It makes it impossble to do stuff and as she is so difficult to settle I was getting anxious about being anywhere if I thought she was going to be overtired. She doesn't self settle either so getting to sleep can be abit of a chore.
Now has come the complication of when to fut her 'meals' around her naps! Her sleeo is so unpredictable and what works one day seems to do nothing for her the next.
We roughly;
6am - wake
6.30 - Milk (usually hardly takes any)
7.30 - Breakfast (sometimes not interested!)
8/8.30 - Nap (for 40 mins)
10.00 Milk & snack - (although recently she's been all over the place with this too)
11/11.30 - Nap ( with resettling can be anything from 1 hour to 2)
1.30 lunch
2.30 Milk
anywhere between 3 and 5 (depending on success of previous nap) - Nap
5pm - tea
6pm Bath
6.30 Milk
7pm Bed
She feeds once or twice in the night.
Today however, it has looked like this;
4.50am - wake. Re-settle unsuccesful, fed at 5.30am, still awake. Asleep at 6.15am. Awake again at 6.50am. 7am Milk. 7.45 Breakfast. Not really interested. 8.50am nap. 9.30 wake up. 10am Milk (very on and off). 11.30 Yoghurt. More milk at midday. 12.10 Nap. woke at 12.45. Re-settled. Awake again at 1pm. Tried feeding back to sleep but not interested. I gave up and now she is happily playing while I type. BUT I know she will be grumpy again in an hour and even more so by this evening!
She has a tooth coming through so maybe that's what's affected all this. She is also VERY close to full on crawling. But I thought this was supposed to tire her out!
Have done the writing everything down thing but just when I think we've got a patter it all changes.
Sorry for long post but I don't know where to start and I'm afraid that as much as I'd love to 'just go with the flow' I can't do that anymore. I really feel both she and I would benefit from structure.
To add to my stress the PIL are coming to stay this weekend and I just know I'll get the 'so when does she sleep' 'how long will she sleep for now', 'do you just put her down and she goes to sleep' etc etc
Somebody please save my sanity before it's too late!