I wonder if anyone has come across the 'challenge!' I am currently facing with my DD?
She is 7 months old and has been self settling to sleep at night and for naps since she was 3.5 months old. We had been in a brilliant routine with naps and I could pinpoint to within 5 minutes when she would next need to go down (very alert baby so timings important)
In the last few weeks she has started to sleep through the night sometimes or wake for a feed at 5.30. I have started weaning her off the feed as it seems to have become very habitual over the last 2 weeks..so far this is going well. However, her morning wake times have changed (I used to always wake her at 7.30 am but now she may be up at 6.30 if STTN or 7 ish if she has a feed. Since all this has been happening I have been really struggling to get the timing right for her naps and sometimes she gives out a tired sign an hour after finishing an hours nap!!
Usually she lasts 1.5, 2, 2.5. I have gone by timings as well as tired signs as tired signs often mean she's overtired.
My gut feeling is that her little internal clock if a bit mixed up after having been so routine for so long and now changing. Am hoping that once I wean her off the 5.30 feed and she properly STTN every night....I can then be pretty much guaranteed the same first nap time and the others should follow after a few days....once her body gets used to new routine.
Sorry to waffle on but it has been awful playing nap bingo..can awake times reduce??(If not ill/teething etc)
Has anyone come across anything similar or got any suggestions?
thanks
p.s. she now goes to sleep at 7.30 pm every night as will be starting nursery soon and this is likley to be the time she will get to bed on those days.