I'm hoping for views on this sleep schedule as nights are getting steadily worse, so I'm trying to make days as good as possible in the hope nights will follow.
All times are approx obviously...and most are baby led (ie looking for sleep cues, but they always start about 1hr 20 after waking, so it all depends how quickly I can boob/buggy/sling DD to sleep)
7am Wake
8.30 Nap
11 Wake
12.30 Nap
14.15 Wake
16.00 Nap
17.30 Wake and start sleep routine of gentle walks round house, then bath, massage, boob and bed. Ideally sleep by 7.15ish, though this never happens.
Depending on the day if DD woke a bit earlier and/or one or more of the naps were short then she might fit a catnap in at 6-6.30 then start bedtime routine aiming for 8pm bedtime.
So basically we aim for wake at 6.30-7, about 5 to 6 hours of naps (this is normally achieved, though sometimes in 3 long naps, other times 4 or even 5 shorter ones), then sleep at 7.30 is our aim.
Bedtime never happens, we normally get her down at 8.30 -9 (often very grouchy and overtired) but she will often wake 1, 2, or more times before we go to bed at 10.30ish. Then sometimes she wakes just twice for food, other times she wakes a lot more!
She is ebf, huge (~19lbs) and generally quite happy I think- no real crying except at bedtime when we are all tired!
Any thought very much appreciated! Her naps were much worse but evenings much better before xmas and going away, then we targeted naps to get things back on track and its all gone wrong...